猎尸者 (1961)
Mr. Sardonicus
哥特式风格故事，背景设定在1880的伦敦，男爵在挖坟埋在父亲之时偶然的找回了遗留在他父亲口袋的中奖彩票，随后他脸上露出了诡异的笑容。影片的广告噱，”Punishment Poll（惩罚投票）“，当影片情节进行到高潮部分时， 导演Castle突然出现在荧幕上给观众解释如何行使自己的投票权。每一位观众手里拿到了一张印有拇指的卡片，他们可以任一做出上或下的方向以决定Mr. Sardonicus在影片结尾是复活还是死亡？据不完全统计，基本上没有一位观众不是希望电影中反叛得到应有的报应。
- 上映日期
- 1961-10-08
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (80)
- 片长（分钟）
- 1小时29分钟
- 类型
- 恐怖, 悬疑
- 导演
- William Castle
演员阵容
- Ronald Lewis — Sir Robert Cargrave
- Audrey Dalton — Maude Sardonicus
- Guy Rolfe — Baron Sardonicus
- 奥斯卡·霍莫尔卡 — Krull
- Vladimir Sokoloff — Henryk Toleslawski
- Erika Peters — Elenka Toleslawski
- Lorna Hanson — Anna
- Constance Cavendish — Mrs. Higgins (uncredited)
- James Forrest — Geoffery Wainwright (uncredited)
- Tina Woodward — The Girl (uncredited)
- Mavis Neal Palmer — Head Nurse (uncredited)
- Charles H. Radilak — Stationmaster (uncredited)
趣闻
- 改编自：Sardonicus
Mr. Sardonicus is a 1961 horror film produced and directed by William Castle, based on the short story "Sardonicus" by Ray Russell, who also wrote the screenplay. It stars Oscar Homolka, Vladimir Sokoloff, Guy Rolfe and Audrey Dalton.
Production
William Castle purchased the rights to the short story "Sardonicus" and hired its author, Ray Russell, to write the screenplay. Ronald Lewis was imported from England, where he had made The Full Treatment and Taste of Fear for Hammer, to play a lead role.
To achieve Baron Sardonicus's terrible grin, Guy Rolfe was subjected to five separate facial appliance fittings. He could not physically stand to wear the piece for more than an hour at a time. As a result, the full makeup is only shown in a few scenes, with Rolfe instead wearing a mask over his face for most of the running time.
Castle, with his reputation as the "king of gimmicks" to market his films, built the marketing for the film around the idea of the two possible endings. Near the end of the film, audiences were given the opportunity to participate in the "Punishment Poll". Each movie patron was given a glow-in-the-dark card featuring a hand with the thumb out.
The "poll" scene, as presented in the film, is hosted by Castle himself. He is shown pretending to address the audience, jovially egging them on to choose punishment, and "tallying" the poll results with no break in continuity as the "punishment" ending is pronounced the winner.
The "punishment" ending occupies only three minutes of film after the "poll", and was the ending of the original Russell short story.
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