Mr. Sardonicus Trailer

[paleblue498]

I agree with an earlier poster concerning Castle's movie gimmicks. Mr.Sardonicus was one of a number of Castle films which were well done and scary in their own right and needed no carnival tricks to boost ticket sales. This one really scared the poop out of me when I was a kid!

[mickeymousebiker1]

Scary movie, but, one great morality tale! Thank you, William Castle!

[Cannibalzz]

Is there somewhere online someone could see decent versions of old films like this (not youtube)? I cant get netflix where I live

[philrochester]

Is that Rod Serling doing the voice-over ?

[Tori965]

I hate horror movies. When I watched this movie, at first I thought, this movie is so old that it won't scare me. But when that horrible smile appeared I couldn't watch the screen. It's damn scary. This movie is like way of saying: "Don't mess with old horror movies"

[larjanus]

I saw these movies on tv as an 8yo kid along with 'Hands of Orlac' , 'The Tingler' and other crazy movies. Thank God for Youtube as they were seldom if ever repeated in the UK. I'm gonna sit down and get a big dose of them now!

[LENTICULARPLASTIC]

Someone needs to make a porno called "Mr. Hardonicus".

[hymiehymie]

I remember too how creepy it was, and don't remember the "poll". I saw it about the same time and same age as Axecalibore. It does look like a silly gimmick - don't make me work while I'm watching a movie, man!

[raymondlang]

I have been trying to find the movie where a man looks inside a dug up coffin to reveal a corpse, and shocks the man so much, his face takes on the same grimmace/smile as the corpse.

Sure it was in colour, but it's been 30 plus years since I saw it on tv.

[iheartslashers]

Yeah, the "power" bit is a lie. They never shot a "merciful" ending. The only ending to the movie was the "punishment" ending. The whole "power to choose" thing is a hoax. Got that off of wikipedia.

[Pinkranger87]

I would actual like to see a remake of this movie

[hdtv267]

This movie will be running ( including Punishment Poll) at the Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles on October 23, 2010.

Also on the bill "Macabre"

[chuman00]

nice

[dorkstomper]

cool i wanna go see that wens it showing?

[crbunnny]

Saw it on TV when I was 13. Scared the bajeebies out of me! You can combine all the spooky movies out there... & they won't have the effect this movie had on me. Omg, I have got to get a copy... LOL!

[efrem1]

Hey, you mean he went mad over seeing the grave of Nancy Pelosi?. Shiver me timbers!!!

[Sammyjackson1488]

This is on Svengoolie tonight.

[sachaput]

This film gave me nightmares! I don't remember a poll, since I probably saw this a couple of years after the initial release as part of a double-feature.

I haven't seen it in years, but I'll bet it would still freak me out!

[jb0177]

That was just a gimmick. There was only one ending.

[EltonForever]

Can somebody please tell me where I can get a copy of this movie on DVD?

Please contact me.

Thanks

[Ramboknife65]

go to ebay or amazon.

if that is too expensive for you, then just type in "mr. sardonocus used DVD" in google.

[jb0177]

...or use bit torrent

[tropicvibe]

Another oldie with a good story line, don't miss it!

[mcdornan1]

Castle at the beginning staged his profile shot to look just like FDR. Wonder why...

[UncleCharlieOakley]

Because director Alfred Hitchcock was famous for his profile and famously showed it at the beginning and end of the credits for his hit television series. Castle dealt his whole life with quite a case of "Hitchcock envy."

[schmiler1970]

It's a good movie.

[summerandsmoke]

I'm thinking of buyng this - not sure yet. Anyway, I'm a big William Castle fan and I need a little help - one of his first films was called "Macabre" in 1958 and I can't find a VHS tape of it anywhere! Does anyone know where I could get a copy??

[axecalibore]

The ironic thing is, Sardonicus had such a good story and cast that it didn't need any of the usual silly William Castle gimmicks at all, and would have worked straight as a regular movie. The dopey Punishment Poll gimmick only wasted time and got in the way. I saw the movie when I was 12, and I thought so then.

[cowboyswin2007423]

The first time I saw this my heart jumped up my throat! Now it loks kinda goofy!

[justlooking213]

Because of a stinking power outage I never got to see the ending it cut out when Sardonicus told kruell to cut Maudes face up WHAT HAPPENED?

[CultofJ]

Keep your daughters away from Sardonicus! Lock 'em up.

[NellyNinja]

Simply genius.