{"id":50944,"date":"2017-09-17T17:43:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T21:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=50944"},"modified":"2017-09-17T17:43:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T21:43:46","slug":"william-castles-the-spirit-is-willing-scares-up-a-great-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=50944","title":{"rendered":"William Castle&#8217;s &#8220;The Spirit Is Willing&#8221; Scares Up A Great Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZumbUVAIbCQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Ghostville, baby!<\/p>\n<p>Schlock master <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=William%20Castle%7C440119&#038;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">William Castle<\/a> is known for making audiences scared, but did you know that he could also leave them screaming with laughter? It&#8217;s true, and 1967&#8217;s <em>The Spirit Is Willing<\/em> proves it! Just by looking at the movie&#8217;s poster &#8212; which features a tagline declaring it to be &#8220;the first picture to face the biggest problem of our time: the sex life of ghosts &#8212; you get a sense that you aren&#8217;t in for the regular Castle experience, but something altogether more goofy. The picture stars <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Sid%20Caesar%7C645811&#038;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sid Caesar<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Vera%20Miles%7C672082&#038;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Vera Miles<\/a> as a married couple who, along with teenage son <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Barry%20Gordon%7C791386&#038;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Barry Gordon<\/a>, rent a beautiful old house in a sleepy New England seaside town with hopes of having a summer packed with plenty of rest and recreation. Unfortunately for them, the residence is also home to a trio of ghosts who don&#8217;t appreciate the human interlopers interfering with their own lazy time. And so the silly spirits embark on a mission to pull of the craziest pranks ever seen in this life or the next, giving a look at how the deceased live, life, and, uh, love along the way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/the-spirit-is-willing-one-sheet-1967.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"549\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/the-spirit-is-willing-one-sheet-1967.jpg 700w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/the-spirit-is-willing-one-sheet-1967-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The movie was released by Paramount Pictures in July of 1967, but really, it plays so much better the closer it gets to October. That is to say that you&#8217;ve got plenty of time to add it to your spooky viewing lists in advance of Halloween next month. Might we suggest pairing it with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?q=mad+monster+party&#038;mod=AP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mad Monster Party<\/a><\/em> for a terrific vintage horror-comedy double feature?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Ghostville, baby! Schlock master William Castle is known for making audiences scared, but did you know that he could also leave them screaming with laughter? It&#8217;s true, and 1967&#8217;s The Spirit Is Willing proves it! Just by looking at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9744,"featured_media":50945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1452,7043,1540,7041,7042,6514],"coauthors":[5618],"class_list":["post-50944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-articles","tag-1960s-movies","tag-barry-gordon","tag-cult-films","tag-sid-caesar","tag-vera-miles","tag-william-castle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>William Castle&#039;s &quot;The Spirit Is Willing&quot; Scares Up A Great Time! - MovieFanFare<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Scares and laughs collide in William Castle&#039;s 1967 effort &quot;The Spirit Is Willing,&quot; starring Sid Caesar and Vera Miles.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=50944\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"William Castle&#039;s &quot;The Spirit Is Willing&quot; Scares Up A Great Time! 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