A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.
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- TriviaWilliam Castle: [gimmick] Used a gimmick called "Emergo" in theaters. When the skeleton rises from the acid vat in the film, a lighted plastic skeleton on a wire appeared from a black box next to the screen to swoop over the heads of the audience. The skeleton would then be pulled back into the box as the skeleton in the film is "reeled in." Many theaters soon stopped using this "effect" because when the local boys heard about it, they would bring slingshots to the theater; when the skeleton started its journey, they would pull out their slingshots and fire at it with stones, BBs, ball bearings and whatever else they could find.
- GoofsLance locks his door from the inside with a deadbolt, after the Doctor calls everybody to the meeting, and leaves through Nora's door. When they return from the meeting, he opens his unlocked door from the outside.
- Quotes
Frederick Loren: Don't stay up thinking of ways to get rid of me, it makes wrinkles.
- Crazy creditsThe end title credits list "Skeleton - By Himself".
- Alternate versionsWhen shown in "Emergo", there was a short scene showing brick wall for the skeleton to "emerge".
- ConnectionsEdited into Elvira's Horror Classics (2004)
- SoundtracksTheme 'House on Haunted Hill'
by Richard Kayne and Richard Loring
Featured review
Vinnie Throws One Heck of a Party!
Vincent Price asks five strangers to spend an evening in a haunted house for ten thousand dollars a piece. With his estranged wife in tow, the seven house guests begin a nocturnal odyssey of mayhem, murder, and the macabre. This film is a great vehicle for Price's unique talents as an actor, and is also a very atmospheric film due in large part to the direction of William Castle. Castle gives us all kinds of horror in the traditional vein...a severed head, a skeleton, the screaming-without-end hysterical young woman, the plot twists and turns, and the firmly planted tongue-in-cheek. The cast is very good, with Carol Omhart, as Price's elegant and gorgeous wife, and Elisha Cook, as a drunken sot who continually rants about all the evil that has happened in the house, as standouts. This is a great Halloween film, or one that you turn off the lights to watch.
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- Feb 5, 2000
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- The House on Haunted Hill
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- Ennis House - 2607 Glendower Avenue, Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California, USA(exterior views of the house only)
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- $200,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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