00:00I'm 10 years old in Hackensack, New Jersey, and we sit down in the theater, the lights
00:15go down, onto the screen comes this man.
00:18Do you believe in ghosts?
00:21Some people believe in them, others do not.
00:24Personally, I do.
00:25He's in his office, talking directly to us, and explaining that in the movie we're about
00:30to see, 13 Ghosts, we're going to be using a ghost viewer, ghost remover.
00:35If you believe in ghosts, look through the red part.
00:40If you don't believe in ghosts, look through the blue.
00:44No one else ever talked to me from a movie screen before.
00:46Shall we go?
00:47I was born in 1950, so I grew up with Bill Castle pictures.
00:51Do you feel it is all right for your daughter to see this type of motion picture?
00:54If you lived in the United States and you went to the movies, you saw Bill Castle.
00:58Oh, it's good to see you again, my homicidal friends.
01:01The first thing I remember was him climbing out of a coffin at the premiere of Macabre.
01:06I just wanted to be taken into William Castle's world and live there.
01:09Members of the audience, including you, will actually play a part in the picture.
01:13Going to see one of his movies was not just going to the movies.
01:15There was always something going on there.
01:17The timbre is in the theater.
01:18Bill Castle was a showman, and whatever he could add, at no great expense, he would add.
01:26This is the fright break.
01:28He was always looking for a gimmick.
01:29They had percepto.
01:30They had illusion of emergeo.
01:32I guess they had to have an O at the end.
01:34Give me your money-o.
01:36We are offering a money-back guarantee.
01:39He developed a sort of a persona as the poor man's Alfred Hitchcock.
01:42Alfred Hitchcock is going to have to go a long way to try and top something like this.
01:45The critics thought he was ridiculous, and kids thought he was great.
01:49This time, we have even a stranger tale to unfold.
01:53Oh, ah, blood.
01:54He wanted acclaim.
01:55He wanted recognition.
01:57And these films gave it to him.
01:59What was the most delightful piece of mayhem in the entire picture?
02:03He touched people in a really spine-tingling way.
02:06He he he.
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