Macabre
As Blood-Chilling As Being Buried Alive!
1958 | 72m | English
Popularity: 0.4 (history)
| Director: | William Castle |
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| Writer: | Robb White, Anthony Boucher |
| Staring: |
| After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's small daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 01, 1958 |
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| Director: | William Castle |
| Writer: | Robb White, Anthony Boucher |
| Genres: | Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
| Keywords | nurse, mother, based on novel or book, investigation, daughter, father, sister, buried alive, murder, child in peril, doctor, corpse, housekeeper, anonymous telephone call, preacher, mortuary, blindness, graveyard, small town sheriff, child kidnapping, philanderer, loss of family, family vault, mystery villain, small town america |
| Production Companies | William Castle Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $5,000,000
Budget: $90,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 (Update) Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| William Prince | Dr. Rodney Barrett |
| Jacqueline Scott | Nurse Polly Baron |
| Jim Backus | Sheriff Jim Tyloe |
| Jonathan Kidd | Ed Quigley, mortician |
| Ellen Corby | Miss Kushins |
| Philip Tonge | Jode Wetherby |
| Susan Morrow | Sylvia Stevenson |
| Christine White | Nancy Wetherby |
| Robert Colbert | Nick, chauffeur |
| Dorothy Morris | Alice Wetherby Barrett |
| Howard Hoffman | Hummel, cemetery caretaker |
| Voltaire Perkins | Preacher |
| Linda Guderman | Marge Barrett |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| William Castle | Director |
| Les Baxter | Original Music Composer |
| Jack T. Collis | Art Direction |
| Herschel Brown | Key Grip |
| George J. Eppich | Sound Editor |
| Clem Portman | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Robb White | Screenplay |
| Carl E. Guthrie | Director of Photography |
| Anthony Boucher | Novel |
| John F. Schreyer | Editor |
| Robert Kinoshita | Art Direction |
| Jack Dusick | Makeup Artist |
| Lillian Ugrin | Hairstylist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| William Castle | Producer |
| Howard W. Koch | Producer |
| Aubrey Schenck | Producer |
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