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Summary: The Ghosts are Walking Tonight
Review: Effective little 8 reel 'old dark house' chiller from the gimmicky William Castle. The gaping holes and inconsistencies of the plot don't seem to matter as you wait for the next 'shock' moment. Nice performances all round, with Vincent Price and the ever reliable Elisha Cook, Jr, hamming it up like crazy. All the staple ingredients are there, from severed heads, to a bath of acid. Not as good on a TV screen as in a darkened cinema, with the skeletal 'Emergo' being trundled across the auditorium on its often squeaky wire. But the wonderfully 'ghostly' theme and incidental music works every time. Good to watch around midnight, alone, and with the lights out.
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Summary: Priceless Fun
Review: Okay, what ever happened to Carol Ohmart? I remember when I first saw this movie in 1959 (I was just a kid, by the way), I thought she was one of those most frightening women I had ever seen on film. She gives a remarkably effective performance as the gold-digging wife of the legendary Vincent Price in this William Castle shocker. But how about Carolyn Craig, Elisha Cook Jr., and Richard Long? They are delightful, too. In fact, this original far surpasses the 1999 remake, if only in its performances. The thrills/scares are more "camp" but they are amazingly effective. Everything about this movie is great, and it's a perfect movie to watch on Halloween night.Rent it, buy it, and have a frightfully good time.
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Summary: Campy and fun!
Review: I love to watch this one on Halloween night! Vincent Price is great, and so is the rest of the cast! This movie has a little bit of everything that you would expect to happen in a haunted house, and it's just so fun to watch it!
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Summary: A GREAT classic movie!
Review: I watched this movie on TV once, and I immediately went out and bought it in the stores because I loved it so much! This movie stars Vincent Price as a very rich man who offers $10,000.00 for anyone who can stay in a haunted house that he's rented overnight. A very good storyline! The caretakers lock everyone in the house, forcing them to stay inside! Two out of the seven house guests try to murder Vincent Price, but in the end get murdered themselves! You simply MUST see this!
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Summary: The House, The Voice, The Fear.
Review: When I was a little girl, they began showing a Vincent Price movie every Sunday morning. It was a series of some sort. The first Sunday was The House on Haunted Hill. I will never ever forget that movie, scared the life out of me. To this day, some 30 years later, I still remember that movie. Like Psycho, where you never feel safe again in the shower, The House has forever stayed with me. Vincent Price was such an impressive actor, his voice alone can scare the wits out of you. This movie is a classic and one that will stick to your ribs.
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Summary: A Great Movie
Review: This is one of my favorties.Its about a host gives his friends a intivation to a party.They play a game that they must say in a haunted house for 100,000 is they survive.Its one of my favorite's.
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Summary: Awesome movie
Review: First off, I'm 13, and love old classic movies. This is a GREAT movie! It's not that scary, but there are PLENTY of jump scenes to keep you nervous. My favorite part of the movie is where Vincent Price gets even w/ his wife. The characters are described pretty well in the beginning, so you get to know them quite well. Buy this movie! You'll enjoy it! I do! - A Fan
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Summary: Spooky Thrills galore!
Review: "House On Haunted Hill" is one of Williams Castle's best films, next to "Homicidal". Set in a bizarre house that looks like a giant concrete bunker on the outside, but the usual cobwebbed mess on the inside, the plot sees a group of strangers gathered to stay the night in the hope of winning a fortune if they survive.. The first half of the film is the most effective, especially the appearances of a witch-like apparition in the basement. Castle successfully creates a truly frightening atmosphere for this that he has not equalled since. The film starts to lose its power later as plot twists and more stagey gimmicks start to proliferate, such as a tatty head in a box (eek!) and the famous dangling skeleton, which looks a bit tired if you don't have "Emergo" set up over your TV! Anyway, this film is much better than the recent remake, but it's a shame that William Castle always resorted to gimmicks, when there is a hint here that he could have been capable of real suspense.
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Summary: A Time Now Gone for This Genre
Review: The atmosphere,the execution,the actors,the house,the age;the periodic shot of adrenalin in the blood-stream within the more general gloom and mold of the old house. And if for no other reason,the sudden terrify- ing close-up confrontation,upon turning,to see the old caretaker's hideous wife inches from your face,in the basement!And her floating out of the room (all accompanied by eerie organ music). Truly only the modern,or 'post-modern' age could scoff at this stuff and prefer the kind of unimaginative drivel complete with(unnecessary for effect)sex and gore which latter constitute so much of this cheap and vulgar age's 'entertainment'. Hats off to the new imaginative chilling stuff that doesn't pander (overmuch)to the current taste of the mass ignoranti,at least as that taste is interpreted by Hollywood and their 'associated links',in modern computer talk (writers,producers,directors,etc),and to those few who try (for whatever reason)to imitate the quality of the old (quality not being interpreted as 'nifty' special effects,great lighting or some other technological nonsense revolving around an insipid story line); and of course Hats Off to the genius of the Past. We won't see the likes of the crafting of those early days,or their mores,again.Pity,that!
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Summary: "Howling good fun!"
Review: House On Haunted Hill was produced and directed by 50's gimmick king william Castle and is one of the most enjoyable Haunted House movies I've ever seen. Primarily for one reason...Vincent Price, who is at his hammiest best as Frederic Loren who along with his murderous wife rent out the House from alcoholic owner Watson Pritchard. The film seems pretty hokey but its Price who holds it up. Check him out in William Castles 1959 film "The Tingler" another Priceless (excuse the lousy pun) classic.
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