13 GHOSTS (1960) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: William Castle
Charles Herbert, Donald Woods, Rosemary DeCamp,
Jo Morrow, Martin Milner, Margaret Hamilton
A nice American family moves into a haunted house, and William Castle rolls out "Illusion-O", a process whereby special glasses worn at certain points in the film allow viewers to get a better look at the ghosts. Also, Margaret Hamilton plays a witch, or something like a witch, but she's not green this time around, and, anyway, the movie's in black and white. You can't take any of it seriously for a second, but it's not like moviegoers in 1960 didn't have a pretty good idea going in what they were going to get. It's William Castle, after all.
Martin Milner
(1931-2015)
