- HD 1080
- Runtime: 72m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: William Castle
- Stars: William Prince, Jacqueline Scott, Jim Backus, Jonathan Kidd, Ellen Corby
- keywords: daughter, mother, based on novel or book, nurse, investigation, father, buried alive, sister, child in peril, murder, doctor, corpse, housekeeper, anonymous telephone call, preacher, mortuary, blindness, graveyard, small town sheriff, child kidnapping, philanderer, loss of family, family vault, mystery villain, small town america
- Production_studio: William Castle Productions
- Slogan: As Blood-Chilling As Being Buried Alive!
- The Macabre is featured in the top rankings of 1958
- #24 in Top Thriller Movies of 1958
- #8 in Top Mystery Movies of 1958
- #12 in Top Horror Movies of 1958
After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's small daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.