5. House on Haunted Hill, 1959
The legend Vincent Price delivers a great performance, the movie while short, keeps the tension and the mystery very well.
Vincent Price plays the eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren. He and his wife, Annabelle, have invited five people to the house for a “Haunted House Party”. The guests have to stay in the house for the night to earn $10,000 each. As the night progresses, all the guests are trapped inside the house with ghosts, murderers and such terrors.
On its initial release, William Castle (director and producer), had a glow in the dark skeleton swing across the theater at the right time in the movie, later when people knew about it, kids would show up with sling shots and throw rocks at it.
In August and September 2010, the Film Forum in New York City had a revival of the film (along with several other Castle pictures) that included the original gimmick. This was the first time since the late 1980s Film Forum had done this.
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