A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.
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- TriviaWilliam Castle: [gimmick] Used a gimmick called "Emergo" in theaters. When the skeleton rises from the acid vat in the film, a lighted plastic skeleton on a wire appeared from a black box next to the screen to swoop over the heads of the audience. The skeleton would then be pulled back into the box as the skeleton in the film is "reeled in." Many theaters soon stopped using this "effect" because when the local boys heard about it, they would bring slingshots to the theater; when the skeleton started its journey, they would pull out their slingshots and fire at it with stones, BBs, ball bearings and whatever else they could find.
- GoofsLance locks his door from the inside with a deadbolt, after the Doctor calls everybody to the meeting, and leaves through Nora's door. When they return from the meeting, he opens his unlocked door from the outside.
- Quotes
Frederick Loren: Don't stay up thinking of ways to get rid of me, it makes wrinkles.
- Crazy creditsThe end title credits list "Skeleton - By Himself".
- Alternate versionsWhen shown in "Emergo", there was a short scene showing brick wall for the skeleton to "emerge".
- ConnectionsEdited into Elvira's Horror Classics (2004)
- SoundtracksTheme 'House on Haunted Hill'
by Richard Kayne and Richard Loring
Featured review
This film is truly awful. A revamp of the old Cat & the Canary formula. A theme done to death. Yet I love it for the shallow and stiff characters, lazy script and muddled story line. None of it works. The writer feels the need to 'explain' everything - but a psychological intepretation would have been better? But who could forget that final scene of the skeleton trundling out from the vat of acid - a giant string puppet!!! Oh what rubbish but I've seen this film time and time again and it IS a little scary in parts. I have to say I enjoy it more than the recent Gosford Park. Ahhh they don't make them like this anymore. Unintentionally funny throughout!!!
- movie zombie
- Mar 16, 2002
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- Also known as
- La casa de la colina embrujada
- Filming locations
- Ennis House - 2607 Glendower Avenue, Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California, USA(exterior views of the house only)
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- Budget
- $200,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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