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Video Patrol: 'Life on Mars: Series 2,' 'William Castle Collection' Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 14:54 The final eight episodes on the second box from Acorn are so incredible, I tore through them in a matter of days.

Once upon a time, meaning half a century ago, in the days when filmgoers were even more innocent and tolerant of Hollywood's enthusiasm for concocting shameless shlock than they are today, a movie called The Tingler was released.

No, this 90-minute color diversion nominally involves the 13 daughters of international diplomats, home on vacation from their boarding school.

OWLS HEAD : The William Castle Film Collection . This set collects eight of Castlea s films, plus the documentary a oeSpine Tingler! The William Castle Story.a Three of the films, a oeZotz!,a a oeThe Old Dark Housea and a oe13 Frightened Girls,a make their DVD debut.

This has been called the decade of The Blair Witch. The 1999 movie ushered in the use of the internet to promote films.

Turner Classic Movies is having a William Castle festival today, so you should just turn to that channel at 5pm and call it a night.

The disc: The William Castle Film Collection The details: The William Castle Film Collection piles up eight, count 'em eight, of Castle's gleefully absurd horror films from the early 1960s in one bountiful package.

A romantic drama set in Paris, a hilarious hotel and a tribute to a macabre show man arrived on DVD on Tuesday.

The approach of another Halloween is reason enough for video labels to start coughing up their hair-raisers. We begin our annual survey with some "safe for kiddies" fare and proceed to less wholesome diversions.

The William Castle Film Collection : Eight films from Castle, known for his ad campaigns and showmanship, are combined in this five-disc boxed set.

Schlock that rocks. The Tingler's got it all: weird science, a mad scientist, a cheeseball monster, twisto plot, murder, good girl, bad girl, terrific performances by Vincent Price , Philip Coolidge and Judith Evelyn , the movies' first-ever acid trip and a gimmick.

T ransformers: Revenge of the Fallen on Blu-ray is the ultimate exercise in form over content.

The Tingler 1959 // 82 Minutes // Not Rated 13 Ghosts 1960 // 84 Minutes // Not Rated Homicidal 1961 // 87 Minutes // Not Rated Mr.

The problem with a TV festival of William Castle films is that they don't come with all the gimmicks that accompanied them in the original theatrical showings of his B-movies. The most famous are the random joy buzzers affixed to some theater seats during the screenings of the 1959 "The Tingler" . "Straight-Jacket" , released in 1964, featured Joan ...

William Castle was part director, part producer and all showman, generating buzz for low-budget pics like 13 Ghosts , The Tingler and House on Haunted Hill with silly theater gimmicks like flying skeletons and buzzing seats -- in some ways a precursor to the much-hyped roll-out of Paranormal Activity .

A romantic drama set in Paris, a hilarious hotel and a tribute to a macabre showman arrive DVD on Tuesday, Oct.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Michael Bay's latest. Did anyone like this one? I never even saw the first one.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was one of the bigger recent examples of the gulf between movie critics and moviegoers.

Okay, I've said this before, but some days the film and video gods really do seem to be smiling on us.

Q: Could you please tell me if the singer Fergie from Black Eyed Peas was ever in a 1980s show called 'Kids Incorporated'? She looks so familiar.