William Castle – MRQE

The Whistler

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife’s death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn’t dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.

Project X

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A spy is brought back from cryogenic suspension after being almost killed in a plane crash returning from a mission to learn about a deadly new weapon being developed in the East. But the vital memories are being suppressed, so the authorities use ultra-advanced technologies to try to uncover the secret.

Macabre

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

Undertow

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge. Before this can take place, Brady is framed for murder, and forced to hide out in the home of Peggy Dow. With the help of Dow and a policeman friend, Brady searches for the real murderer. Watch carefully in Undertow and you’ll spot new Universal contractee “Roc” Hudson as a plainclothes detective.

I Saw What You Did

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their targets.

Shanks

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.

The Spirit Is Willing

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.

The Busy Body

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Sid Caesar is a bumbling gopher to a mob boss who must recover a fortune in cash stowed in the suit of a corpse.

Let’s Kill Uncle

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A 12-year-old orphan who has just inherited a fortune is trapped on an island with his uncle, a former British intelligence commander who intends to kill him. A young girl is the boy’s only ally against the sarcastic uncle, who uses hypnotism, a pool of sharks, fire, and poisonous mushrooms as weapons.

The Night Walker

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.