House on Haunted Hill

Ben Mankiewicz introduces House On Haunted Hill, 1958.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The House On Haunted Hill, 1958.

Introduction and comments following House On Haunted Hill, 1959, from TCM's Dave Karger and horror movie expert and author David Skal.

Leave it to horror impresario William Castle to start with nothing, then screams, then Elisha Cook and Vincent Price introducing the scenario, in House On Haunted Hill, 1958, shot at the Frank Lloyd Wright Ennis House in L-A and featuring Castle's low-rent "Emergo" in-theater gimmick.

Pritchard (Elisha Cook) leads the tour of his haunted family home where spooky millionaire Loren (Vincent Price) is paying guests (Alan Marshal, Julie Mitchum, Richard Long, Carolyn Craig) $10,000 each to spend the night, in horror entrepreneur William Castle's House On Haunted Hill, 1958.

Already playing tricks on his guests, each paid $10,000 to spend the night in a haunted house, nutty Loren (Vincent Price) visits wife Annabelle (Carol Ohmart), for whom he claims to be throwing this party, in low-budget horror innovator William Castle's House On Haunted Hill, 1958.

The owner of a haunted mansion (Vincent Price) offers $10,000 to anyone who'll spend an entire night in The House On Haunted Hill (1959).