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Macabre

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A maniac attempts to drive a doctor over the edge by announcing that he has buried the physician's daughter alive.
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Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine 11/06/2019
A hollow and phony horror-melodrama, most of the action centring around a windy graveyard at midnight. It's a formidable candidate for inclusion among the worst movies of 1958. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 03/09/2015
C+
Too bad the b/w pic wasn't as imaginative as the film's promotional campaign. Go to Full Review
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Raymond D. @raydiaz Oct 29 Effective at creating a creepy setting. Terrible acting. See more Laurie F Oct 27 Dumb movie-full of over acting and dumb choices. Sometime after the weird call about Marge Polly is telling the Dr and the house cleaner the details and it takes her 10 min to get the story out, with her ending her hysterical retelling of the two-minute call with something about how Marge’s time is running out. Duh! Then the Dr tells everyone to not tell the cops and drags Polly to the graveyard with him where they wander around (Polly hysterically, the Dr lamely) barely poking their shovels around the graveyard where they think Marge might be buried. And did I miss something about how Polly so quickly figured out where Marge was at the end? I did have some laughs though so it gets one and a half stars. See more Barbara F. @TattooYou Oct 20 Terrible acting. Story. What a waste of time lol See more CodyZamboni Z Oct 13 The promtion and off screen narrator hype this movie as horror, But it's more of a whodunnit , As doc gets message his daughter is buried alive in graveyard, Lots of red herrings, An atmospheric creepy graveyard, Lots of flashbacks, past affairs, I did not guess the twist, Amusing William Castle audience warnings, And a humorous cartoon, played over the credits. See more Ian S Jul 13 Dire. Plenty of unintentional laughs. A short movie that still dragged to the finish. See more dave s 05/06/2021 The premise of a father searching for his missing daughter, who has been buried alive by a psychopath, is intriguing. Unfortunately, William Castle's Macabre fails miserably in creating any sense of intrigue. The primary problem is the fact that the plot is ridiculously convoluted and when the plot twist is revealed at the end, one is left wondering whether there could have been an easier way for the antagonist to achieve his or her goal. Well of course there was an easier way. Things are further complicated by flashbacks that do more to confuse issues than to clarify them. Some of the acting is laugh-out-loud funny, especially that of William Prince as the father of the buried girl, who appears more interested in spitting out banal dialogue than digging holes to find his daughter. Some of the cinematography in the cemetery is effective in creating an atmosphere, but this isn't enough to save the film. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis A maniac attempts to drive a doctor over the edge by announcing that he has buried the physician's daughter alive.
Director
William Castle
Producer
William Castle
Screenwriter
Robb White
Production Co
William Castle Productions
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2012
Runtime
1h 13m
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