When a rich eccentric couple desired to host a haunted house party, they rented the house on Haunted Hill, an empty old mansion with a gruesome past and a drunken, superstitious owner. While the wife preferred inviting acquaintances, the husband invited several strangers whom he knew very well would do anything for the ten thousand dollars he offered if they could stay in the house an entire night. All invited guests showed up in funeral cars, unsure of their reasoning for being invited and uneasy among each other and the host himself. At first nothing unusual happened as they had drinks and conversation and were given a chilling tour of the house while learning its history. But when one guest was mysteriously slugged while another was frightened by a ghostly apparition, the events of the night would only worsen. After the early departure of the caretakers, the group was locked in and forced to stay until morning and experience all sorts of terrors from hysteria to supernatural forces to passionate murder.
House on Haunted Hill is a classic horror film released in 1959. It was directed by William Castle (13 Ghosts, Rosemary's Baby) and starred horror favorite Vincent Price (The Last Man on Earth, The Haunted Palace) as the millionaire Frederick Loren. Also well known among the cast was character actor Elisha Cook Jr.(Rosemary's Baby, Messiah of Evil, The Haunted Palace) as Watson Pritchard . The film is public domain and can be found in a number of different DVD issues, including one dollar DVDs. Remastered versions have been released by two major studios; Warner Brothers Home Video released it as a tie-in to promote the 1999 remake, and 20th Century Fox released colored version with special features such as two versions of the trailer and a slideshow of images from the film's original press book.
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