House on Haunted Hill (1959)
William Castle used a gimmick in the theaters. At a certain
key moment in the movie a glow-in-the-dark skeleton appeared from behind the screen to swoop over the heads of the audience.
Plot:
Five diverse people are invited to a 'haunted house' party. They are
offered $10,000 each by an eccentric millionaire and his wife to spend
the night in a house with a murderous past.
Cast:
Vincent Price .......Frederick Loren
Carol Ohmart .......Annabelle Loren
Richard Long .......Lance Schroeder
Alan Marshal .......Dr. David Trent
Carolyn Craig .......Nora Manning
Elisha Cook Jr. ....Watson Pritchard
Julie Mitchum ......Ruth Bridgers
Leona Anderson ...Mrs. Slydes
Howard Hoffman ...Jonas Slydes
Bloopers:
The Cadillac funeral cars in procession at the beginning
of the film are various model years. In the next scene when they pull
up in front of the house they are all the same year.
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