Homicidal (1961, Blu-ray) William Castle's Psycho! Special Features!

Description: Homicidal (1961, Blu-ray). A WORD OF WARNING! PLEASE DONT REVEAL THE ENDING OF THIS PICTURE OR YOUR FRIENDS WILL KILL YOU - IF THEY DONT, I WILL! A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a wheelchair-bound mute named Helga, who was the childhood guardian of a pair of siblings: Miriam Webster and her half-brother, Warren, who is about to inherit the estate of their late father. Who is the mysterious Emily and what are her intentions? -Letterboxd.com INDICATOR BLU-RAY EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES: -High Definition remaster -Original mono audio - Audio commentary with author and film historian Lee Gambin - Stephen Laws Introduces 'Homicidal' (2018, 8 mins): personal appreciation by the acclaimed horror author -Psychette: William Castle and Homicidal' (2002, 8 mins): archivist Bob Burns and filmmakers David Del Valle, Michael Schlesinger and Fred Olen Ray discuss the film - Ballyhoo! (2018, 4 mins): film historian Bob Thomas recalls the time he interviewed Castle -Youngstown, Ohio Premiere (1961, 5 mins): original promotional reel in which Castle interviews attendees of the film's premiere -Isolated music & effects track. -Original theatrical trailer -Image gallery: promotional and on-set photography, poster art and archive materials -New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing ... Based on the success of Castle's previous films, Columbia Pictures agreed to implement his concept for a "Fright Break."This entails a 45-second timer which overlays the film's climax as the heroine approached the house harboring a sadistic killer. A voice-over advised the audience of the time remaining in which they could leave the theater and receive a full refund if they were too frightened to see the remainder of the film. To ensure the more wily patrons did not simply stay for a second showing and leave during the finale, Castle had both numbered and different colored tickets printed for each show. About 1% of patrons still demanded refunds, and in response Castle decided to spotlight the people who chose to leave by creating a "Coward's Corner." Print ads promoting the film emphasized this "Fright Break" gimmick. The "Coward's Corner" was a table with a nurse holding a blood pressure cuff. John Waters described it in his book Crackpot: He came up with "Coward's Corner," a yellow cardboard booth, manned by a bewildered theater employee in the lobby. When the Fright Break was announced, and you found that you couldn't take it any more, you had to leave your seat and, in front of the entire audience, follow yellow footsteps up the aisle, bathed in a yellow light. Before you reached Coward's Corner, you crossed yellow lines with the stencilled message: "Cowards Keep Walking." You passed a nurse (in a yellow uniform? ... I wonder), who would offer a blood-pressure test. All the while a recording was blaring, "Watch the chicken! Watch him shiver in Coward's Corner!" As the audience howled, you had to go through one final indignity at Coward's Corner you were forced to sign a yellow card stating, "I am a bona fide coward." Very, very few were masochistic enough to endure this. The one percent refund dribbled away to a zero percent, and I'm sure that in many cities a plant had to be paid to go through this torture. No wonder theater owners balked at booking a William Castle film. It was all just too complicated... According to Castle, the gimmick worked "great," and that theaters earned an average of $20,000 weekly in box office sales, with only $100 in refunds. Multiple critics drew comparisons betweenHomicidalandAlfred Hitchcock'sPsycho, released the year prior.Timemagazine said: "Made in imitation of Hitchcock'sPsycho, it surpasses its model in structure, suspense and sheer nervous drive."and placed it on its list of top ten films of the year for 1962. -Wikipedia

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