He then tosses Trent's skeleton in the vat to dissolve in the acid. Triumphant, he states that when Annabelle and Trent were starting their "little game of murder" and planning to kill him that he was "playing too". The real Loren then emerges from the shadows, holding the contraption that he used to manipulate the skeleton which is now revealed to be Dr Trent's. As the animated specter approaches, Annabelle recoils and screams in horror, accidentally falling into the acid herself. Suddenly, a skeleton rises from the acid accompanied by Loren's disembodied voice. Hearing the gunshot, Annabelle rushes down to the basement to confirm that her husband is dead, but finds the room empty. Trent slips in and tries to get rid of Loren's body by pushing it into a vat of acid there (which had been used by a previous resident named Norton to kill his own wife), but the lights go out, and the sounds of a struggle and splash are heard followed by hissing and rapid bubbling. After being driven into a fit of hysteria by the repeated frights she has experienced during the night, Nora, seeing Loren walking toward her in the basement with a gun in his hand, does indeed shoot him. Trent, faked her death in an attempt to frighten Nora so badly that she will be compelled to shoot Loren. It is eventually revealed that Annabelle, in league with her lover, Dr. Schroeder is attacked in a basement room, but is convinced his attacker was real, and tries to calm Nora's fears. He is convinced that the house is genuinely haunted by the ghosts of those killed there in the past, including his own brother, and that those ghosts have the power to "come for" (kill) anyone in the house. Nora becomes convinced that he's trying to kill her when she keeps seeing frightening apparitions, including the ghost of Annabelle, who had apparently hanged herself some time during the night.Īlmost as frightened as Nora is Watson Pritchard. Forced to attend the party, Loren's wife tries to warn the guests that her husband is Psychosis, causing them to be very suspicious of him. Pritchard disapproves of Loren's use of the house for his "party," making it unclear how Loren acquired access to the house in the first place.Īrriving late at night in separate funeral cars with a hearse leading the procession, Loren's guests are told the rules of the party, and each is given a Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammer for protection. David Trent (Alan Marshal (actor)) who specializes in hysteria, Nora Manning (Carolyn Craig), who works for one of Loren's companies, and the house's owner Watson Pritchard (Elisha Cook Jr.). The five guests are test pilot Lance Schroeder (Richard Long (actor)), newspaper columnist Ruth Bridges (Julie Mitchum), psychiatrist Dr. PlotĮccentric millionaire Frederick Loren (Vincent Price) invites five people to a "party" he is throwing for his fourth wife, Annabelle (Carol Ohmart), in an allegedly haunted house he has rented, promising to give them each $10,000 with the stipulation that they must stay the entire night in the house after the doors are locked at midnight. As the night progresses, all the guests are trapped inside the house with ghosts, murderers, and other terrors.Įxterior shots of the house were filmed at the historic Ennis House in Los Feliz, California, California.
Whoever stays in the house for one night will earn $10,000. He and his fourth wife, Annabelle, have invited five people to the house for a "haunted house" party.
It was directed by William Castle, written by Robb White and stars Vincent Price as Eccentricity (behavior) millionaire Frederick Loren.
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Topics include: the original 1959 version of House on Haunted Hill and William Castle's legacy, how this movie compares to the other Dark Castle films from this era, whether or not they reveal the ghosts too early, the wasted potential of Dr.House on Haunted Hill is a 1959 American horror film film. On this episode, we're accepting an invitation to spend the night in this cavernous asylum so that we can determine if its dark forces still pack the same punch they did two decades ago. For their inaugural outing, they chose House on Haunted Hill. It was during this time that the production company Dark Castle Entertainment was formed with the goal of producing glossier remakes of classic William Castle horror movies from the 50s and 60s. The resurgence of teen slashers that had been kicked off by Scream was fizzling out and in its place were films that placed more of an emphasis on supernatural scares. The horror genre was experiencing an interesting transition in the late 90s/early aughts.