House on Haunted Hill

About 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.

House on Haunted Hill (1959) is a horror mystery film directed by William Castle. Released in January 1959, it runs 75 minutes.

Vincent Price stars as Frederick Loren, Carol Ohmart as Annabelle Loren, Richard Long as Lance Schroeder, and Alan Marshal as Dr. David Trent. Written by Robb White. Production companies include Allied Artists Pictures and William Castle Productions.

Shelv files it under haunted house, tense, frightened, and cigarette. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and AMC+ in the United States.

It, It Chapter Two, and Beetlejuice make useful companions to House on Haunted Hill, all filed under halloween. It scores 6.7 out of 10 from 654 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.