“Consult your doctor! Bring your seatbelt!”
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.
Vincent Price
Frederick Loren
Carol Ohmart
Annabelle Loren
Richard Long
Lance Schroeder
Alan Marshal
Dr. David Trent
Carolyn Craig
Nora Manning
Elisha Cook Jr.
Watson Pritchard
Julie Mitchum
Ruth Bridgers
Leona Anderson
Mrs. Slydes
Howard Hoffman
Jonas Slydes
By Himself
Skeleton
House on Haunted Hill is a horror, mystery film released in 1959 exploring themes of skeleton, wine cellar, cigarette, haunted house, blind, black and white. Directed by William Castle, it stars Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long. 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.
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