Campy horror movie, released in
1958. Directed by
William Castle and written by
Robb White. Starred
Vincent Price,
Carol Ohmart,
Richard Long,
Alan Marshall,
Carolyn Craig, and
Elisha Cook, Jr.Here's the basic
plot:
eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren, played by Price, and his
fourth wife, played by Ms. Ohmart, have invited
five people to their
mansion on
Haunted Hill for a
haunted house party. Anyone who stays in the
house the whole
night and makes it out
alive will be given
$10,000 each. As the
guests are
locked into the house,
ghosts start appearing and people start
dying.
When the
film was shown in
theaters, it featured one of producer Castle's
patented
gimmicks: at a certain point in the
movie, a
glow-in-the-dark skeleton appeared from behind the
screen and
swooped over the heads of the
audience.