13 Ghosts (1960)

When an impoverished family inherits a ramshackle mansion from an occultist uncle, they find they've also inherited the house's ghosts and a housekeeper (Margaret Hamilton) who may be a witch. Directed by schlockmeister William Castle (STRAIT JACKET), this is an old fashioned family friendly ghost movie that could easily have come out of the 1940s. Castle gussied it up for its theatrical release with a gimmick of special glasses that would allow the audiences to see the ghosts (the process was called Illusion-O). The movie doesn't need the gimmick and works perfectly well without it. Being a wholesome ghost movie has it drawbacks however. It means that it's not very scary and outside of a gruesome death for the film's bad guy, this is a movie you could show to your kids. Poorly remade in 2001. With Donald Woods, Rosemary DeCamp, John Van Dreelen, the fetching Jo Morrow and that annoying child actor, Charles Herbert.