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William CastleHouse on Haunted Hill (1959)

An eccentric millionaire throws a party for his wife in a haunted house offering each guest $10,000 if they can make it through the night. Only there seem to be schemes at work beyond what the ghosts have planned.

You can find out more about this movie on its IMDB page.

You can download an AVI of this movie here.

And this movie was featured on an episode of Frightmares the Series hosted on the Internet Archive here.


This movie is part of the collection: Sci-Fi / Horror

Director: William Castle
Producer: William Castle
Production Company: William Castle Productions
Audio/Visual: sound, black & white
Language: English
Keywords: haunted house; Vincent Price; horror; murder; suspense; ghosts

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: agapocine - - October 21, 2009
Subject: Haunted remakes
The value of the movie is unquestionable (though someone found common places
with Ed Wood!?).I had not seen the original till now but just the remake with Geoffrey
Rush in the place of the millionaire.Now i think that we should give a "ghost party"
to all remake directors with the hope that none of them would come out alive!
Really watching movies like this makes me shout PLEASE NO MORE REMAKES!

Reviewer: keygrip - - October 15, 2009
Subject: What a scream
A thoroughly enjoyable way over the top camp horror classic.
I remember when it was first shown in the theatres,they had a skeleton dancing on wires over the audience just as the on screen skeleton was putting paid to Vincent's wife.
You can't beat that!

Reviewer: cosmicolada - - August 29, 2009
Subject: Castle of Crap
This exchange from Tim Burton's 1994 film ED WOOD comes to mind:

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Ed Wood: If you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something!

George Weiss: Yeah. Crap with a star.
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One star for Vinnie. None for Castle.

Reviewer: thestril - - July 20, 2009
Subject: Creepy, lovely
This movie has so many scenes that are just plain creepy, one of my absolute favorites.

Reviewer: zeneida - - June 3, 2009
Subject: screen format
Please answer guys, is this in widescreen or fullscreen format? I have the fullscreen version & it's quite a disappointment, I don't want to redownload something that I already have.

Reviewer: drworm01 - - August 18, 2008
Subject: Fixed Details
Oops. Fixed from 50,000 to 10,000.

Reviewer: zythmer - - August 17, 2008
Subject: Best version of this movie on archive.org
The MPEG-2 encoding here is the best available version on archive.org. The plot summary is incorrect, however, as they were promised $10,000 each.

I always enjoy Vincent Price movies. He has a screen presence that's hard to ignore. It's worth a download just to see Vincent Price in action even if you aren't a suspense/horror movie fan.

Overall, this is a fun movie but you have to stretch your imagination (and ignore circumstances) at times. This is one of the best public domain movies on archive.org.