I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Irene Trent (Barbara Stanwyck) is struggling with her nightmarish world. Her possessive blind inventor husband Howard supposedly dies in a laboratory fire but she continues to be haunted by his presence. Her lawyer Barry Morland locks up the destroyed lab and she moves out of the home.This is solid for a modest B-horror. It has veteran actress Barbara Stanwyck and serves as her last theatrical performance. There is a good nightmare world. It's lower budget with limited sets. Some of it is definitely older style horror. This is not going to break the mold but I always like Stanwyck.

What were these two veterans thinking of when they became involved in this juvenile comic strip? You may not have to be the sharpest tool in the box to be an actor but couldn't they recognise schlock when they saw it? Oh well, at least Miss Stanwyck, having dipped a toe in the murky pond of William Castle's productions, decided to avoid the occasionally hysterical film fate of Bette and Joan and stick to television.The dummies used in the chapel scene were more animated than poor old Robert Taylor — never the most exciting of actors here he sometimes seems to be wearing more make-up than Stanwyck while reacting like someone who'd taken a nice sedative just before walking onto the set.

You know, William Castle didn't do just gimmick-laden horror movies. He sometimes did genuine thrillers. Take The Night Walker. A woman, kept housebound by her wealthy, elderly, blind husband, suffers from vivid nightmares of a tall, dark stranger who's just out of reach. Her husband records her talking in her sleep and concludes she's having an affair with a younger man. The old man tries to enlist his attorney to find out more but instead dies in an on-site lab fire. Now the woman still has those dreams, but there's a new guest - her dearly departed husband.Is Irene Trent (Barbara Stanwyck, in her final film role) cheating on her husband? The audience learns the answer in quick order. But who is this strange man in her dreams? She doesn't recognize him, doesn't know his name. And the dreams feel incredibly real. She's visited, embraced, taken places familiar and yet unknown to her. Her sleep is restless, her psyche unstable.Irene turns to attorney Barry Morland (Robert Taylor), and it's clear she has a bit of a thing for him - but he's not the man in the dream, either. What's more, some nights she feels as if she's not in a dream at all but is an active participant in a surreal romance. It gets to the point where poor Irene can't easily tell the difference.There are some Castle trademarks. There's an emphasis on the nature of sleep and consciousness, and to illustrate how mind-warpy that concept is, Castle treats us to spiraling animation and his own actors' melodramatic acting. But this isn't Joan Crawford in Strait-Jacket; Stanwyck is commanding and alluring as the victimized Irene. Also of note is the terrific score, although with no soundtrack listed it's hard to tell where the music comes from. (Vic Mizzy, who composed music for The Addams Family, The Munsters, and Green Acres, was responsible for the tunes here.) There's also a nifty twist at the end that most sharp viewers will catch, but it's still satisfying. Taylor, Lloyd Bochner (as the "dream" lover), and Hayden Rorke (as the jealous husband) offer fine support. The film's well shot, making excellent use of low-lit interiors to convey a sense of claustrophobia and general fear. This is quite the unsung Castle classic.

William Castle's B/W thriller ( 1964 )with Barbara Stanwick and Robert Taylor .. Is this available on TCM ?? I see it is not available on DVD,, but there a lot of great films not available that get run regularly on TCM . I thought there was a box I could check that would alert me when this title is to be run during the week, so I won't miss it. For those of you who are familiar with this Gothic style horror film,, Castle did wonders with the Music, the Angles of the camera lens and the Black and White composition of this little 86 minute gem of a film. The music of this film gives me the creeps whenever I think of the melody. And the angle of the Dutch framing ( on an angle ) makes the horror that much better.