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House on Haunted Hill

195875 minUnited States
MysteryHorror
Video edition
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Original language
English
This copy runs
74:55
Subtitles
English

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Synopsis

A wealthy man offers five strangers a substantial reward for spending one night in a supposedly haunted house. The doors will be locked, weapons are handed out and the host's marriage is already a battlefield. Frightening apparitions soon make it difficult to distinguish a supernatural threat from a carefully arranged human trap.

Cast

DirectorsWilliam Castle

Behind the scenes

William Castle extended the scares into some cinemas with Emergo, a publicity device that sent a skeleton over the audience. The house's interiors were largely studio sets, and works from Vincent Price's art collection helped decorate them. Limited theatrical engagements began in December 1958, ahead of the film's better-known 1959 run.

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