Chiller movie , especially remembered for original gimmick of dangling a skeleton over the audiencies , including grisly horror , genuine chills and shocks taking place at an enormous , spooky, rented house in which some guests must spend overnight with the host offering them a million of dollars if they can stick it out for the complete night. This William Castle's film deals with eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren (Vincent Price) and his 4th wife, Annabelle (Carol Ohmart) , have invited 5 people (Richard Long , Alan Marshal, Elisha Cook Jr. , Carolyn Craig , Julie Mitchum) to the house on Haunted Hill for a "haunted House" party . Whoever will stay in the house for one night will earn ten thousand dollars each . As the secret this infernal house was far more frightening that any picture Hollywood could produce . As the night progresses , soon supernatural creepiness begins frightening , all the guests are caught inside the house with scary inhabitants : spectres , killers , succubus , living skeleton , and other horrors still living within the walls of the House on Haunted hill.
This cheap eerie tale packs horror , grisly killings and lots of blood and gore . It's silly but good fun from the master of the macabre William Castle . Unashamedly cheesy , amusing and entertaining yarn in Castle ordinary wake when he directed successful terror movies . Scheming Vincent Price gives a top-notch acting in his usual ironical style as the millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked at a creepy mansion . This nice film with plenty of gimmicks , as in-theatre full-size skeleton (dubbed Emergo) leap from the screen and descend on cinema-goers along a hidden wire . The motion picture was competently directed by William Castle . He was an expert craftsman with some of the all-time great schlock names serving as the producer Sam Katzman and fondness for gimmicks as proved in his successful terror films such as : House of haunted hill , The Tingler , Mr Sardonicus , Strait-jacked , Homicidal , Macabre and 13 Ghosts . Castle emulated Alfred Hitchcock , this included the practice of appearing in the trailers, and even making cameo appearances in his films . Furthermore , he made several Westerns such as : 1955 Duel on the Mississippi , 1955 The Gun That Won the West ,1955 El Americano , 1954 Masterson of Kansas , 1954 The Law vs. Billy the Kid , 1954 Jesse James vs. the Daltons , 1954 Battle of Rogue River , 1953 Fort Ti , 1951 cave of outlaws. Rating : 5. Better than average .
It has a remake that doesn't reach too far above its predecessor , titled : ¨House on the haunted hill¨ 1999 by William Malone with Geoffrey Rush , Famke Janssen , Taye Diggs , Ali Larter , Peter Gallagher , Chris Kattan , Bridgette Wilson, being lavishly produced by Dark Castle , production company specialized on terror genre and in charge of Joel Silver , Robert Zemeckis and Gilbert Adler, including excessive use of computer generator FX and special make-up . And the worst and weaker : Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007) by Victor Garcia with Amanda Righetti , Erik Palladino ,Andrew Lee Potts ,Tom Riley and Jeffrey Combs.
This cheap eerie tale packs horror , grisly killings and lots of blood and gore . It's silly but good fun from the master of the macabre William Castle . Unashamedly cheesy , amusing and entertaining yarn in Castle ordinary wake when he directed successful terror movies . Scheming Vincent Price gives a top-notch acting in his usual ironical style as the millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked at a creepy mansion . This nice film with plenty of gimmicks , as in-theatre full-size skeleton (dubbed Emergo) leap from the screen and descend on cinema-goers along a hidden wire . The motion picture was competently directed by William Castle . He was an expert craftsman with some of the all-time great schlock names serving as the producer Sam Katzman and fondness for gimmicks as proved in his successful terror films such as : House of haunted hill , The Tingler , Mr Sardonicus , Strait-jacked , Homicidal , Macabre and 13 Ghosts . Castle emulated Alfred Hitchcock , this included the practice of appearing in the trailers, and even making cameo appearances in his films . Furthermore , he made several Westerns such as : 1955 Duel on the Mississippi , 1955 The Gun That Won the West ,1955 El Americano , 1954 Masterson of Kansas , 1954 The Law vs. Billy the Kid , 1954 Jesse James vs. the Daltons , 1954 Battle of Rogue River , 1953 Fort Ti , 1951 cave of outlaws. Rating : 5. Better than average .
It has a remake that doesn't reach too far above its predecessor , titled : ¨House on the haunted hill¨ 1999 by William Malone with Geoffrey Rush , Famke Janssen , Taye Diggs , Ali Larter , Peter Gallagher , Chris Kattan , Bridgette Wilson, being lavishly produced by Dark Castle , production company specialized on terror genre and in charge of Joel Silver , Robert Zemeckis and Gilbert Adler, including excessive use of computer generator FX and special make-up . And the worst and weaker : Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007) by Victor Garcia with Amanda Righetti , Erik Palladino ,Andrew Lee Potts ,Tom Riley and Jeffrey Combs.