title: The Others function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); <br> studio: Dimension Home Video MPAA rating: R starring: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Elaine Cassidy, Eric Sykes, Alakina Mann, James Bentley, Renée Asherson release year: 2001 film rating: Four Stars sound/picture: Four Stars reviewed by: Mel Odom Ghost stories have been done, literally, to death. Yet there is something about the hint of the supernatural, the chance of possibly viewing something that has so far gone unseen and didn’t quite make it to the grave, that draws audiences into such a tale. Even the youngest viewers are familiar with stories of ghostly haunts and Things That Go Bump In The Night.

title: Mr. Sardonicus function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); <br> studio: Columbia Pictures Home Video MPAA rating: NR starring: Ronald Lewis, Guy Rolfe, Oscar Homolka, Audrey Dalton, Vladimir Sokoloff, Erika Peters release year: 1961 film rating: Two Stars sound/picture: Three Stars reviewed by: Bill Warren William Castle worked busily in Hollywood from the late 30s to the end of his life, mostly directing negligible B movies, medium-budget Westerns, and the like. He worked with Orson Welles on "The Lady from Shanghai," but that's one of his few titles most film fans today would recognize. That is, until the late 1950s. Like others, he took close notice of the sudden revival of popularity of horror movies, and decided to try his hand.

title: Straight-Jacket function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Columbia Pictures Home Video MPAA rating: NR starring: Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St. John, John Anthony Hayes, Rochelle Hudson, George Kennedy, Edith Atwater, Mitchell Cox release year: 1964 film rating: Three stars sound/picture: Three stars reviewed by: Bill Warren By 1962, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford each found it increasingly difficult to get decent roles; each of them went through three years of no work at all. They cordially (and later not so cordially) detested each other, but when Robert Aldrich asked them to costar in his wonderful "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane," they buried the hatchet long enough to make the film -- which turned out to be a big hit. Suddenly horror movies -- mostly thrillers, really -- with aging lady stars became all the rage; Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Fontaine, Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon and others made their own thrillers, and Crawford and Davis continued doing them for several years. Some of their choices weren't ...

title: Homicidal function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); studio: Columbia Pictures Home Video MPAA rating: NR starring: Patricia Breslin, Jean Arless, Glenn Corbett, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bunce, Richard Rust, James Westerfield, Gilbert Green release year: 1961 film rating: Three-and-a-half stars sound/picture rating: Three stars reviewed by: Bill Warren William Castle used the previous year's big hit "Psycho" as a launching pad for his next Columbia chiller, "Homicidal." His frequent writer Robb White came up with a daring, even brash idea that, for most audiences, works just as intended. It will not be revealed here. The result is one of Castle's best films, taut, involving and suspenseful; it's not until you think about it later that you realize the story is pretty thin, and that the cast seems strangely underpopulated. The first time through, for most it does its job with dispatch and even some sense of style. It was good enough that the reviewer for "Time" magazine grandly (and wrongly) declared it better than "Psycho."

title: Theatre Of Death function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close();  studio: Anchor Bay Home Entertainment MPAA rating: NR starring: Christopher Lee, Julian Glover, Lelia Goldoni, Evelyn Laye, Jenny Till, Ivor Dean, Dilys Watling, Betty Woolfe release year: 1967 film rating: Two-and-a-half stars reviewed by: Bill Warren Back when he was making anywhere from two to five movies a year, Christopher Lee seemed to be everywhere; now that he's one of the continuing characters in "Lord of the Rings" and will appear in next year's "Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones," he seems to be everywhere again -- but in bigger, more lavish productions. However, of course, it's because he made so many movies (hardly all horror) back when that directors fondly remember him today, and cast him in these big movies.