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{{short description|1959 horror film directed by William Castle}}
{{about|the film|the [[Haunted attraction (simulated)|haunted attraction]] in Woodland Hills, CA|The House at Haunted Hill|the remake|House on Haunted Hill (1999 film)}}
{{distinguish|The Haunting of Hill House (TV series)}}

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{{Infobox film
| name           = House on Haunted Hill
| image          = House on Haunted Hill.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster by [[Reynold Brown]]
| director       = [[William Castle]]
| writer         = [[Robb White]]
| producer       = William Castle <br />Robb White<br /><small>(associate producer)</small>
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Vincent Price]]
* [[Carol Ohmart]]
* [[Richard Long (actor)|Richard Long]]
* [[Alan Marshal (actor)|Alan Marshal]]
* [[Carolyn Craig]]
* [[Elisha Cook Jr.|Elisha Cook]]
* [[Julie Mitchum]]
}}
| cinematography = [[Carl E. Guthrie]]
| editing        = [[Roy Livingston]]
| music          = Von Dexter
| color_process  = [[Black and white]]
| studio         = [[William Castle|William Castle Productions]]
| distributor    = [[Allied Artists Pictures Corporation|Allied Artists]]
| released       = {{Film date|1959|02|17}}
| runtime        = 75 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $200,000 <small>(estimated)</small>
| gross          = $2.5 million<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=Goosepimple Saga With Seats to Suit|date=August 5, 1959|page=19|url=https://archive.org/stream/variety215-1959-08#page/n18/mode/1up|access-date=January 14, 2021|via=[[Archive.org]]}}</ref>
}}
[[File:House on Haunted Hill (1959) by William Castle.webm |thumb|thumbtime=235|''House on Haunted Hill'' (1959) by William Castle]]
'''''House on Haunted Hill''''' is a 1959 American [[horror film]] produced and directed by [[William Castle]], written by [[Robb White]] and starring [[Vincent Price]], [[Carol Ohmart]], [[Richard Long (actor)|Richard Long]], [[Alan Marshal (actor)|Alan Marshal]], [[Carolyn Craig]] and [[Elisha Cook Jr.]] Price plays an [[Eccentricity (behavior)|eccentric]] [[millionaire]], Frederick Loren, who, along with his wife Annabelle, has invited five people to the house for a "haunted house" party. Whoever stays in the house for one night will earn $10,000. As the night progresses, the guests are trapped within the house with an assortment of terrors. This film is perhaps best known for its promotional gimmick [[Movie gimmick|Emergo]].<ref name=":0" />

The film uses many props used in carnival haunted houses to generate fear and terror. The film is in the [[public domain]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Miska|first=Brad|title=They're Re-remaking 'House on Haunted Hill'|date=12 January 2017|publisher=[[Bloody Disgusting]]|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3421062/theyre-re-remaking-house-haunted-hill/|access-date=10 March 2018|archive-date=11 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311141004/http://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3421062/theyre-re-remaking-house-haunted-hill/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=6 October 2017 |title='House on Haunted Hill' screening set in Vacaville |url=https://www.dailyrepublic.com/diversions/entertainment/house-on-haunted-hill-screening-set-in-vacaville/article_078f702a-2875-5a01-80fe-e39e8b9e6691.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190909095154/https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/solano-news/vacaville/house-on-haunted-hill-screening-set-in-vacaville/ |archive-date=2019-09-09 |access-date=10 March 2018 |work=[[Daily Republic]]}}</ref>

==Plot==
Frederick Loren, an eccentric millionaire, invites five people to a party he is throwing for his fourth wife, Annabelle, in an allegedly [[haunted house]] he has rented. He promises to give each guest $10,000 with the stipulation that they stay the entire night in the house after the doors are locked at midnight, all the windows are barred, and there are no phones or radios to use. The guests are test pilot Lance Schroeder, newspaper columnist Ruth Bridges, psychiatrist Dr. David Trent, who specializes in [[hysteria]], Nora Manning, who works for one of Loren's companies, and the house's owner, Watson Pritchard. All are strangers to both the Lorens and each other, their only commonality being their lust for money.

The Lorens have a tense relationship. Frederick is convinced Annabelle tried to poison him to acquire his wealth, which Annabelle somewhat evasively denies, attributing his suspicions to paranoia and jealousy. Watson believes the house is genuinely haunted by the [[ghost]]s of those murdered there, including his own brother; he claims to have spent one night there before and "was almost dead" when found the next morning. He gives a tour of the house, including a vat of acid in the basement, which a previous resident used to kill his wife. When Lance and Nora remain behind to further explore the basement, Lance is locked in an empty room and struck on the head, while a menacing ghost confronts Nora.

Annabelle privately warns Lance that her husband is scheming something and that she suspects him of murdering his second and third wives after his first wife disappeared. The guests learn the party's rules downstairs, and each is given a [[Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammer]] for protection. Having encountered further apparitions, Nora decides against staying the night, but the caretakers lock the doors five minutes early, taking that option out of the guests' hands.

Hearing a scream, Lance and David find Annabelle's corpse, suspended to suggest she [[Suicide by hanging|hanged herself]], but the absence of a perch immediately arouses suspicions of murder. Nora confronts Lance and tells him an unseen assailant strangled her and left her for dead. In light of Annabelle's warnings, they both suspect Frederick. He tells her to remain out of sight so that her attacker will still think she is dead. Lance and David propose that everyone stay in their rooms and shoot anyone who enters to survive the night. Thus the innocents will have no reason to leave their rooms (and a good reason to stay inside them) and the killer must stay put or admit guilt.

Nora is chased from her room into the basement by Annabelle's ghost. Aroused by the ghostly sounds, David concludes that the killer is about and proposes he and Frederick split up to search the house. Lance uncovers a secret room at the end of the second-floor hall, but the door shuts behind him once he enters, trapping him. David instead meets with Annabelle, who had faked her death using a hanging harness and sedatives. Secretly lovers, the two of them have orchestrated the various mishaps to manipulate Nora into killing Frederick. Nora, seeing Frederick enter the basement with a gun in his hand, does indeed shoot him. After she flees, David slips in to dispose of Frederick's body in the vat of acid, and the lights go out.

Annabelle walks to the basement to confirm her husband is dead. A skeleton rises from the acid, accuses her in Frederick's voice, and shoves her into the vat. Frederick emerges from the shadows, holding the puppeteer control unit that he used to manipulate the skeleton and revealing he had known their plot all along.

After Nora, Watson, and Ruth release Lance from the secret room, Nora tells them that she shot Frederick. When they arrive in the cellar, Frederick explains that he loaded her gun with blanks, that his wife and David plotted to kill him, and that they both met their ends in the vat of acid. He says he is ready for justice to decide if he's innocent or guilty. Watson remains convinced the house is haunted, with David and Annabelle now added to its ranks of ghosts, and that he will be the next victim.

==Cast==

[[File:Vincent Price in House on Haunted Hill.jpg|thumb|right|Vincent Price in ''House on Haunted Hill'']]
* [[Vincent Price]] as Frederick Loren
* [[Carol Ohmart]] as Annabelle Loren
* [[Richard Long (actor)|Richard Long]] as Lance Schroeder
* [[Alan Marshal (actor)|Alan Marshal]] as Dr. David Trent
* [[Carolyn Craig]] as Nora Manning
* [[Elisha Cook Jr.]] as Watson Pritchard (credited as Elisha Cook)
* [[Julie Mitchum]] as Ruth Bridgers
* [[Leona Anderson]] as Mrs. Slydes
* Howard Hoffman as Jonas Slydes

==Production==
[[File:Baseline Drive-in Ad - 13 May 1959, Highland, CA.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Drive-in theater|Drive-in]] advertisement from 1959 for ''House on Haunted Hill'' and co-feature, ''[[The Cosmic Man]]''.]]
Exterior shots of the house were filmed at the historic [[Ennis House]] in [[Los Feliz, California|Los Feliz California]], designed by [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] and built in 1924.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/frank-lloyd-wright-homes-with-haunted-histories_o |title=Frank Lloyd Wright Homes with Haunted Histories |last=Blahut |first=Chelsea |date=2014-10-31 |website=[[Architect (magazine)|Architect]] |access-date=2017-10-07 |archive-date=15 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115075113/https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/frank-lloyd-wright-homes-with-haunted-histories_o |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/screens/2009-07-30/now-you-too-can-own-the-house-on-haunted-hill/ |title=Now You, Too, Can Own the House on Haunted Hill! |last=Savlov |first=Marc |date=2009-07-30 |website=[[The Austin Chronicle]] |access-date=2017-10-07 |archive-date=15 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115075049/https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/screens/2009-07-30/now-you-too-can-own-the-house-on-haunted-hill/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The bulk of the film was shot on sound stages,<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Price of fear: the film career of Vincent Price in his own words |last=Eisner |first=Joel |publisher=Black Bed Sheet Books |year=2013 |isbn=9780988659025 |location=Antelope, CA |page=79 |oclc=858943906}}</ref> depicting the interior of the house in a combination of styles, including 1890s [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]], with gas chandeliers and sconces. The poster for the film included an illustration of a house in yet a third style, that of a fanciful four-story [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque structure]].

The [[film trailer|theatrical trailer]] promoted the film as ''The House on Haunted Hill'', although all advertising material and the title on the film itself were simply titled ''House on Haunted Hill''.

The film is perhaps best known for a promotional gimmick used in the film's original theatrical release called "Emergo."<ref name="Law2000">{{Cite book |title=Scare tactic: the life & films of William Castle |last=Law |first=John W. |publisher=Writers Club Press |year=2000 |isbn=0595095445 |location=San Jose [Calif.] |pages=66–67 |oclc=60884288}}</ref> In some theaters that showed the film, exhibitors rigged an elaborate pulley system near the theater screen which allowed a plastic skeleton to be flown over the audience during a corresponding scene late in the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://allmovie.com/movie/v23381 |title=House on Haunted Hill (1958) |author=Hal Erickson |work=[[AllRovi|Allmovie]] |access-date=7 July 2012 |archive-date=15 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115075049/https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v23381 |url-status=live }}</ref> (Several modern repertory cinemas including the [[Film Forum]], [[Loew's Jersey Theatre]], and [[Music Box Theatre (Chicago)]] have hosted revival screenings of the film during which the "Emergo" gimmick has been recreated.)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/08/25/emergo-percepto-illusion-o-the-william-castle-circus-comes-to-town/|title=Emergo! Percepto! Illusion-o! The William Castle Circus Comes to Town|date=25 August 2010|website=The Village Voice|access-date=31 December 2017|archive-date=31 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171231212234/https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/08/25/emergo-percepto-illusion-o-the-william-castle-circus-comes-to-town/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cinemasentries.com/review/william-castle-is-back-and-deader-than-ever/ |title=William Castle is Back! And Deader Than Ever |date=30 October 2011 |access-date=29 October 2022 |archive-date=12 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112124028/http://cinemasentries.com/review/william-castle-is-back-and-deader-than-ever/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-events/house-on-haunted-hill |title=House on Haunted Hill |date=31 May 2023 |access-date=31 May 2023 |archive-date=31 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531202538/https://musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-events/house-on-haunted-hill |url-status=live }}</ref>

Thanks in part to Castle's gimmickry, the film was a huge success. [[Alfred Hitchcock]] took notice of the low-budget film's performance at the box office and made his own low-budget horror film, which became the critically acclaimed hit ''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]'' (1960).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101005006944/en/Stars-Mystery-Science-Theater-3000-Give-Vincent#.VgR84JcTA8A | title=The Stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Give the Vincent Price Classic House on Haunted Hill the RiffTrax Treatment on the Big Screen This Halloween | work=[[Business Wire]] | date=5 October 2010 | access-date=24 September 2015 | archive-date=24 September 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924045809/http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101005006944/en/Stars-Mystery-Science-Theater-3000-Give-Vincent#.VgR84JcTA8A | url-status=dead }}</ref> Castle was himself a Hitchcock fan and tried to imitate Hitchcock's work in his later films such as ''[[Homicidal]]'' (1961).<ref name="Law2000"/>

It was reported that Carol Ohmart was supposed to record the theme in the opening credits, but the idea was scrapped.<ref>Clemens, Samuel. "Carol Ohmart: The Story of Hollywood's Greatest Actress", ''Lulu Press''. December 2022</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/617/Carol+Ohmart/index.html|title=Carol Ohmart – The Private Life and Times of Carol Ohmart. Carol Ohmart Pictures.|website=Glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com|accessdate=  September 30, 2017}}</ref>

==Release==
''House on Haunted Hill'' was originally released theatrically by [[Allied Artists Pictures Corporation|Allied Artists]]. "In the theatre," recalled [[Aerosmith]]'s [[Steven Tyler]], "they had a wire and a ghost came down and made everybody jump out of their seats. The girl you were with screamed, you screamed, and then, you know, everybody went home happy."<ref>{{cite journal|first= Ben |last= Raworth |title= Quote, Unquote: Steven Tyler |journal= [[FHM]] |date=April 1997|page=62}}</ref>

[[Lorimar Productions]] released the film on [[VHS]] cassette on [[CBS/Fox Video]]'s [[Key Video]] in October 1985. Two major studios have released it on home video in remastered versions. [[Warner Home Video]] released the film on [[DVD]] as a tie-in to the release of the [[House on Haunted Hill (1999)|1999 remake]]. In 2005, the film was [[Film colorization|colorized]] by [[Legend Films]]. The color version was released on DVD the same year by [[20th Century Fox]]. Extras prepared by Legend Films for the Fox DVD release included an [[audio commentary]] track by comedian [[Michael J. Nelson]] of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', two versions of the trailer, and a slideshow of images from the film's original press book.

[[Johnny Legend]] released a 50th anniversary DVD containing many extras such as both the original theatrical trailer and TV spots plus several [[William Castle]] and Vincent Price theatrical trailers, a [[Carol Ohmart]] profile and "golden age" TV shows starring Vincent Price. A [[DivX]] file of the colorized version with the commentary embedded is available as part of Nelson's [[RiffTrax|RiffTrax On Demand]] service.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rifftrax.com/ondemand/house-haunted-hill-vod |title=House on Haunted Hill VOD |access-date=7 July 2012 |work=[[RiffTrax]] |archive-date=26 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626043957/http://www.rifftrax.com/ondemand/house-haunted-hill-vod |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2009, a newly recorded commentary by Nelson, [[Kevin Murphy (actor)|Kevin Murphy]] and [[Bill Corbett]] was released by RiffTrax.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/house-haunted-hill-three-riffer-edition |title=House on Haunted Hill&nbsp;– Three Riffer Edition! |work=RiffTrax |access-date=7 July 2012 |archive-date=12 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612114713/http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/house-haunted-hill-three-riffer-edition |url-status=live }}</ref> The RiffTrax team performed a Live RiffTrax of ''House on Haunted Hill'' on 28 October 2010.

''House on Haunted Hill'' was released in a restored [[Blu-ray Disc|Blu-ray]] edition as part of [[Shout! Factory]]'s 2014 ''Vincent Price Collection II''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/House-on-Haunted-Hill-Blu-ray/106211/#Review |title=House on Haunted Hill Blu-ray |work=Blu-ray.com |access-date=23 April 2015 |archive-date=7 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507120958/http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/House-on-Haunted-Hill-Blu-ray/106211/#Review |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 28 September 2011, the estate of William Castle released an annotated screenplay from ''House on Haunted Hill'' which is a copy of the shooting script along with Castle's "margin notes" and the leather-bound style Castle used for his shooting script. This edition includes introductions from [[Joe Dante]] and Castle's daughter Terry. It also features its own version of "Emergo" in which the skeleton appears to readers via a "flip page" method.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fangoria.com/new/event-report-house-on-haunted-hill-1959-at-alamo-drafthouse-yonkers/ |title=Event Report: "HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL" (1959) at Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers! |work=Fangoria |access-date=7 July 2012 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402092941/http://www.fangoria.com/new/event-report-house-on-haunted-hill-1959-at-alamo-drafthouse-yonkers/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Mondo Media]] re-released the film 2015 as part of his Mondo X Chiller series on 28 March 2015 in the [[Alamo Drafthouse Cinema|Alamo Drafthouse]] in [[Yonkers, New York]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fangoria.com/new/mondo-premieres-house-on-haunted-hill-poster-fango-staffer-to-host-ny-drafthouse-screening/ |title=Mondo Premieres "HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL" Poster; FANGO Staffer to host NY Drafthouse Screening! |work=Fangoria |access-date=7 July 2012 |archive-date=10 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310022451/http://www.fangoria.com/new/mondo-premieres-house-on-haunted-hill-poster-fango-staffer-to-host-ny-drafthouse-screening/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Reception and legacy==
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]] the film has received a "fresh" 79% rating based on 42 retrospective reviews, with an average rating of 7.20/10.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://rottentomatoes.com/m/1010034-house_on_haunted_hill/ |title=House On Haunted Hill (1959) |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=October 15, 2023 |archive-date=6 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006230717/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1010034-house_on_haunted_hill |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Allmovie]] has praised the film retrospectively, writing, "Campy and creepy in equal measures, ''House on Haunted Hill'' deserves its status as a horror classic."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://allmovie.com/movie/house-on-haunted-hill-v23381/review |title=House on Haunted Hill (1958) |author=Fred Beldin |work=Allmovie |access-date=7 July 2012 |archive-date=10 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510171510/http://www.allmovie.com/movie/house-on-haunted-hill-v23381/review |url-status=live }}</ref>

The film was also spoofed by [[RiffTrax]] on February 9, 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rifftrax.com/house-on-haunted-hill-three-riffer-edition|title=House on Haunted Hill - Three Riffer Edition|date=19 September 2014|via=www.rifftrax.com|access-date=15 May 2022|archive-date=5 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505145715/https://www.rifftrax.com/house-on-haunted-hill-three-riffer-edition|url-status=live}}</ref>

A sequel novel, ''House on Haunted Hill: Resurrection'' ({{ISBN|979-8988682301}}),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/House-Haunted-Hill-Gary-Rose/dp/B0C9SF8J6R/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2EOJB5OU9F8FC&keywords=House+on+Haunted+Hill%3A+Resurrection&qid=1689252549&s=books&sprefix=house+on+haunted+hill+resurrection%2Cstripbooks%2C84&sr=1-1|title=House on Haunted Hill: Resurrection by Gary J. Rose|website=Amazon.com}}</ref> written by Gary J. Rose, was published in 2023 as "a contemporary reimagining of the iconic Vincent Price horror film", taking place and continuing the events of the original film twenty years later; an audiobook recording of the novel was released on October 25, 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.audible.com/pd/House-on-Haunted-Hill-Audiobook/B0CLQCMFWS?qid=1698322405&sr=1-1&ref_pageloadid=not_applicable&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=YNS5JAVAGNMMD5NX281K&pageLoadId=VkyjqDtTKrEeS2rZ&ref_plink=not_applicable&creativeId=0d6f6720-f41c-457e-a42b-8c8dceb62f2c|title=House on Haunted Hill: Resurrection by Gary J. Rose|website=Audible.com}}</ref>

==Remakes==
The film was remade as the 1999 film ''[[House on Haunted Hill (1999 film)|House on Haunted Hill]]'', which had a 2007 sequel titled ''[[Return to House on Haunted Hill]]''. The 1999 film was released to negative reviews but was a box office success, while the 2007 sequel was direct-to-video and widely panned.

As of 2017, another remake is in development along with a prequel to the original film, with the latter being written by Castle's daughter Terry Castle.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wickedhorror.com/horror-news/another-house-haunted-hill-remake-prequel-way/ |title=Another House On Haunted Hill Remake (And Prequel) On The Way! |work=wickedhorror.com |date=13 January 2017 |access-date=3 March 2018 |archive-date=3 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303110122/http://wickedhorror.com/horror-news/another-house-haunted-hill-remake-prequel-way/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of American films of 1959]]
* [[List of ghost films]]

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==References==
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