House on Haunted Hill
About House on Haunted Hill
Frederick Loren offers five strangers $10,000 each to stay the night in a house where seven people have died. He and his wife Annabelle send hearses for the guests and give them guns. The doors lock. The night is a string of traps between the couple and the guests. Vincent Price plays Loren.
Cast & crew
More about House on Haunted Hill
William Castle produced and directed. Robb White wrote it and co-produced. Carl E. Guthrie photographed. Roy V. Livingston edited. A limited release began December 17, 1958. The San Francisco premiere was January 14, 1959. In February 1959 it played with The Cosmic Man. Castle's stunt was Emergo: a skeleton flown over the seats. Carol Ohmart plays Annabelle. Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig, Julie Mitchum, and Elisha Cook Jr. are the guests. Allied Artists handled the release.
Themes
Look
Carl E. Guthrie shot the locked house and the basement.
Preservation
Prints survive. The film is widely circulated.
Notes
- The file year is the 1959 general release. The first cities saw it in December 1958.
- Each guest arrives in a hearse and is handed a gun.
- Emergo was a plastic skeleton on a wire, not a shot in the film.
- A copy is on the Internet Archive as house_on_haunted_hill_ipod.
- A remake opened in 1999.
Scenes
- The guests are paid to last until morning, then the doors lock.
- A skeleton travels out over the seats on the Emergo wire.
Also available
- Internet Archive (house_on_haunted_hill_ipod)
