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I remember loving this movie as a kid! I remembered it a time or two over the years in passing. No one I know could remember seeing. Tonight I was surfing and thought about John Astin being in some cowboy movie and that's what started my search on imdb. Then voila, I saw the Spirit is Willing Title, and it all came back to me. I ordered Evil Roy Slade from Amazon, but they don't have Spirit is Willing. They've got the vaguest movies, but not a kewl classic like this. I agree about the song being great. I WISH I COULD BUY THIS MOVIE!!!! I'd like for my kids to see it. If anyone knows how to get "The Spirit is Willing" please let me know.

I saw this movie when I was about 14 and couldn't remember the name of it till I found this site. It was a hilarious movie and I'd love to get the movie if it's available. The music from the movie has stuck in my head all of these years. A very catchy tune. I loved the way the ghosts would fight among themselves and the boy got the blame for all the damages that they were inflicting on the house. I was able to relate to what the teenage boy was feeling each time he got the blame. He was able to see the ghosts and could do nothing to stop it and no one would believe him. It is billed as Comedy/Horror, but I remember it being a good family comedy that I wouldn't hesitate to take my kids to see.

I noticed a lot of people wishing there was a way to purchase a copy of this movie. I found a site online that sells rare and classic movies and stuff like that...and they carry this one. Plus, the DVD is only like $12.

Go to - http://store.thesmallscreen.org/spiswi19dvd.html.

Plug that URL into your browser and see for yourself.

I saw the movie when I was really really little and had just written it off as my imagination until I found it here. It combines two things little kids are understandably intrigued by: ghosts and sex. It's comforting to know that I was not simply too imaginative as a child, that the things I swear I remember weren't just fantasies! IMDb validated me just a little.

I wish I was alive in the sixties. Because according to these people, the greatest problem of THEIR time was "the sex lives of ghosts," not crime and poverty. Nice.

I would love to see this movie again, I saw it once as a kid, and have always wanted to see it again. I wonder how much my perception has changed since then. I fear that I might think it's horrible now, compared to my fond childhood memory of it. Why do I think so highly of this film? I don't even know. That may be a question in itself. All I know is, the film couldn't have been so bad that they wouldn't put it out on video or DVD, hell they've put everything else out. If anybody knows how I can see this film again please notify me. . It was very nice to read the other comments from other people who liked this film as well. Now, suddenly I don't feel so alone in the universe.

-Joe

Spirit is Willing, The (1967)

1/2 (out of 4)

Extremely bad mixture of horror and laughs about a teenager (Barry Gordon) who moves with his parents (Sid Caesar, Vera Miles) to a New England house, which just happens to be haunted. The parents naturally don't believe their son that three spirits are there so he ends up getting accused of most the damage being done by the ghosts. I think most people came to know the name William Castle through films like THE TINGLER, HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL or some of his other gimmick horror movies. Just by watching them you'd think he was a decent director but then you might want to venture out into some of the other genres that he touched and you'll see some pretty bad movies. What's so shocking to me is that Castle was a naturally charming guy that could be very funny during interviews. Just by watching him you'd think he would be a natural for comedy but that certainly wasn't the case because he made some truly bad ones in his career and this here is one of the worst. Just by watching this film you'd think that Castle just thought having two people scream at each other was something funny. The characters in this motion picture just come off so fake, so stupid and so downright idiotic that you can never take them serious nor can you believe any of the situations that they are in. There's an entire subplot dealing with the teenager being "distant" and "going through a bad spell" and most of these scenes have him screaming at the top of his lungs while his father will then scream at the top of his lungs. The son will come back louder. The father will then go louder. Mommy will jump in louder then the son gets louder. This is supposed to be funny? After sitting through this for a second you'll be wishing that all three fell into the acid pit that we saw in Castle's HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL. Things really aren't much better with the type of humor from the ghosts as the majority of the so-called "laughs" comes from them either throwing dishes, ruining the furniture or just closing doors. It's really shocking at how poorly done everything in this movie was. The direction was really bad, the screenplay horrid and the overall flow of things is just so sloppy and silly that you are almost shocked that a major studio (Paramount) was behind it. You also have to wonder if this film helped play a part in the studio decided to go with someone other than Castle for ROSEMARY'S BABY, which would be released the following year. Either way, Castle has some good movies out there but there's no denying his comedies are truly awful movies and this here might be the worst.