![]() ![]() Initially, the company’s sole purpose was the remaking of classic Castle horror films, though the company would cease this particular avenue after two releases, focusing on non-Castle remakes and original content. ![]() In 1999, producers Joel Silver and Gilbert Adler, with filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, would form the production company Dark Castle Entertainment. However, despite all of the continuous love and support to the present day, Castle never broke out into mainstream filmmaking, and his iconic film fell into the public domain. ![]() Though Psycho is often credited with starting the mainstream love of American horror films in the 1960s, that credit sincerely belongs to House on Haunted Hill. While the film was quickly becoming one of the most profitable releases of Allied Artists, thanks in part to Castle’s “Emergo” flying skeleton gimmick in theaters, Hitchcock became inspired to direct his own low-budget horror film equipped with Castle-esque advertising tactics, which would manifest the following year as the landmark film Psycho (1960). While often championed for its hefty, yet evenly distributed helpings of camp and 50s horror, the true legacy of the film is its effect on Alfred Hitchcock. The original House on Haunted Hill was created on a budget of roughly $200,000 in 1959 by B-Movie King William Castle and eclectic adventure novelist Robb White (with whom Castle would create five features).
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