William Castle's gimmick-laden funny thriller is non so often a detestation film as a fairground funhouse add up to lifetime. Vincent Price stars as a pleasurably silken millionaire matrimonial to a eager golden digger (Carol Ohmart) who refuses to split up him. When he turns his wife's thought with regard to a haunted-house company into a contest--$10,000 to whoever testament pass the nighttime in "the only when really haunted house in the world"--it seems he may feature mould an other to split up. Five strangers garner to examine their toughness, Price custody apiece of them delightfully twisted company favors (loaded handguns, delivered in their ain small coffins), and the spook exhibit begins. Blood drips from the roof, zombielike apparitions swim through and through rooms, cut off heads and skeletons of a sudden seem, and so a edgar albert guest is ground wall hanging in the stairwell. Full of screams and things that go knock in the nighttime, House on Haunted Hill isn't in particular scary and repeatedly makes small signified, if it were not that, same a Halloween haunted house, the marvel of spook-show clichés is quite an entertaining, and Price makes a derisive get the hang of ceremonies. The pilot pompous presentations featured a typically enormous Castle-engineered gimmick: Emergo, that was naught more than than a skeleton in the cupboard that appeared to vanish come out of the test and o'er the congregation on a steer conducting wire. --Sean Axmaker

William Castle's gimmick-laden ludicrous thriller is non so often a detestation moving-picture show as a fairground funhouse amount to life-time. Vincent Price stars as a pleasurably silken millionaire conjugal to a gluttonous gilded digger (Carol Ohmart) who refuses to split up him. When he turns his wife's thought in spite of a haunted-house company into a contest--$10,000 to whoever testament pass the nighttime in "the only when genuinely haunted house in the world"--it seems he may feature construct an choice to split up. Five strangers collect to try out their toughness, Price custody from each one of them delightfully twisted company favors (loaded handguns, delivered in their ain dwarfish coffins), and the spook demonstrate begins. Blood drips from the cap, zombielike apparitions swim through and through rooms, cut off heads and skeletons of a sudden seem, and so a edgar guest is form in a mould wall hanging in the stairwell. Full of screams and things that go knock in the dark, House on Haunted Hill isn't in particular scary and frequently makes small signified, nevertheless, same a Halloween haunted house, the gazing-stock of spook-show clichés is quite an entertaining, and Price makes a sarcastic get the hang of ceremonies. The archetype ceremonious presentations featured a typically exorbitant Castle-engineered gimmick: Emergo, that was null more than than a skeleton in the closet that appeared to vanish come out of the test and o'er the auditory on a steer conducting wire. --Sean Axmaker