TV Guide: House On Haunted Hill

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TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:54:13 +0000

"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)."

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CinemaNow — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:17:09 +0000

In color for the first time and beautifully restored, Vincent Price stars as an eccentric millionaire married to a beautiful and greedy gold digger. Thay are hosting an overnight party and promise their guests money if they can survive until morning.

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Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:17:19 +0000

In this remake of William Castle's campy 1958 classic, an eccentric millionaire named Steven Price invites a diverse group of people to a reputedly haunted mansion that was formerly the site of an insane asylum. Steven offers his guests $1,000,000 each if they can spend the entire night at the old house without fleeing in terror. It sounds simple enough, but when those stories about ghosts haunting the mansion turn out to be true, the guests may no longer opt to stick around. In this version, Steven is played by Geoffrey Rush, and his guests include Jeffrey Combs, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher, Chris Kattan, and Bridgette Wilson; Famke Janssen plays Evelyn Price. Sadly, this remake does not feature the original's memorable special-effects gimmick, Emergo, an inflatable plastic skeleton that rolled on wires through the theater during showings. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide.

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Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:53:21 +0000

A perennial favorite of the Shock Theatre TV circuit, House on Haunted Hill stars Vincent Price as sinister gent (you're surprised?) Frederick Loren, who resides in a sinister mansion on a sinister hill, where seven murders have occurred. He makes a proposal to several strangers, offtering $10,000 to anyone who can last the entire night. Loren festively gives each of his guests a tiny coffin containing a loaded handgun, designed to protect them from the spooks that emerge in the house over the course of the night. The picture hinges on its surprise ending, which packs in several by-now-familiar twists. When originally released to theaters, House on Haunted Hill was accompanied by one of those gimmicks so beloved of producer/director William Castle: the gimmick was Emergo, and it involved a prop skeleton that emerged from the side of the screen at a crucial moment to frighten the audience. Like most of Castle's best films, House didn't really need the gimmick, but its presence added to the fun -- especially wh

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