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Aug 29 08 3:31 PM
I think that The Black Sleep had some "exploitation" success, as it was heavily promoted at the time. We're not talkin' The Ten Commandments or Ben-Hur here but respectable box-office, good bang for the buck for the producers. Also, its release more or less coincided with the Shock Theater package of old horrors being syndicated to local TV stations, and so it probably hung around in the theaters longer than usual for a black and white programmer.
Not having even glanced at Castle's autobiography in ages I can't recall what inspired him to turn to horrors in the 50's. Macabre, I believe, predates even the Hammer horrors, so Castle was off and running before those bigger films hit, and Macabre made money.
Hammer's films are a different kettle of flesh, and I wonder if their success in the States was Shock Theater-related or was just gonna happen.
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