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Macabre
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 : | 1958 |
Rating : | 5.7 |
Studio : | William Castle Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Art Direction, |
Cast : | William Prince Jacqueline Scott Jim Backus Ellen Corby Philip Tonge |
Genre : | Horror Thriller Crime Mystery |
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The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
The acting in this movie was soooooooo bad that the only thing I could think of to compare was 'Plan 9 from Outer Space'. Jim Backus was the one notable exception.
I've certainly seen better movies. This one was OK, but the characters were really lousy types for the most part. Half way along I pretty much figured out who the actual culprit was, but I wasn't quite sure or why. The graveyard looks like nobody had been buried in it since 1899, and nobody really seemed to care that a little girl was missing and buried alive, at least they didn't move any faster because of this. Polly, who I recall seeing in a very good Alfred Hitchcock a few years back really needed to tone things down. She took forever telling the girl's father what happened during the phone call from the kidnapper. I wanted to beat it out of her.Lastly, what kind of people are these? Polly, the father, the housekeeper and the grandfather all know Marge is missing, and they still decide to attend Nancy's funeral instead of continuing the search? Say whaaaa? The grandfather falls into the open grave at the funeral and nobody even blinks? Nobody even tries to help him? Nobody even acts like they saw anything unusual? Really?
Learning of a great treachery against his daughter, a man and his wife race to the graveyard containing her before a deranged madman can win out in his quest for revenge.An exceptionally flawed and not really all that worthwhile William Castle gimmick effort, only this time the gimmick isn't that great and the movie's little better. The central premise to this one is quite chilling, with the abduction of the daughter and being buried in a grave that requires a man and wife to find her, means we get some incredibly wonderful Gothic atmosphere with the scenes in the cemetery that are quite creepy in design and chilling in how the story's built up. These scenes here and their bantering about where she is and where to dig are really the only parts of this that's worthwhile, as the rest of the time it doesn't have a whole lot to really get interested in. As it goes around with all the potential suspects and why they're interested in seeking revenge, the flashback nature of these participants and why they're out for revenge is not in the slightest bit interesting and drags the movie to a halt as it goes about this section of the movie, dropping all potential horror angles and does so for the majority of the film's running time. Even more so, the fact that the central premise doesn't allow for a lot of time dealing with the graveyard search forces this upon the viewer, a rather unfortunate handicap right off the top. It's got its moments, but not a whole lot of them.Today's Rating: Unrated/PG: Mild Violence and children-in-jeopardy.
i remember "macabre" when the ads for the movies first appeared.one consisted of a sad looking man with a top hat driving a horse drawn hearse containing a flowered draped casket. under the title"macabre" was this line "see it with someone who can carry you home". I remember the front of the theater had a real casket on display. it was opened and it was a hideous looking corpse with the Lloyd's of London policy displayed on the inside of the lined lid of the casket. I wanted to go see it that weekend, but my mother said to me "do you want to die?"so I chickened out. I later heard from my school chums that the movie was a big disappointment and don't bother to see it. I finally got to see it during halloween of 1960 at the same theater where it first opened. there was no casket there to greet me.so i just had the movie to deal with. In watching it I was waiting for the shock moments to occur, but there were just not there, except during the scene in the casket room, and the one in the mausoleum and of course the grand finale with the graveside service at midnight and the discovery of the small casket with it's horrible contents that managed to issue a scream or two from the rather small audience. I still enjoyed the movie regardless of it's shortcomings and can hardly wait till it makes it on DVD.