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House on Haunted Hill
Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.
1959 · Directed by William Castle · 75 min · Horror · Mystery · 13 frames
Tagline
Consult your doctor! Bring your seatbelt!
Crew
- Written by: Robb White
- Cinematography: Carl E. Guthrie
- Edited by: Roy V. Livingston
- Music: Von Dexter
- Produced by: William Castle
Cast
- Vincent Price as Frederick Loren
- Carol Ohmart as Annabelle Loren
- Richard Long as Lance Schroeder
- Alan Marshal as Dr. David Trent
- Carolyn Craig as Nora Manning
- Elisha Cook Jr. as Watson Pritchard
- Julie Mitchum as Ruth Bridgers
- Leona Anderson as Mrs. Slydes
- Howard Hoffman as Jonas Slydes
- Skeleton as Skeleton
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: William Castle Productions, Allied Artists Pictures
- Budget: $200,000
- Themes: skeleton, wine cellar, cigarette, halloween, haunted house, blind, black and white, dripping blood, chandelier, eccentric millionaire
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