The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen House on Haunted Hill on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 9:15 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.
House on Haunted Hill
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William Castle's 1959 Vincent Price-vehicle, House on Haunted Hill, may well be my favorite of the director's pictures. It's got the right mix of Castle camp and general creepiness to satisfy the schlock-seekers that Castle catered to, but it also coheres better than many of his other films. It's well constructed, dynamically paced and thoroughly unashamed of its goofy premise. Price is excellent as always, reveling in the film's black sense of humor and selling the script's jokes every bit as well as its scares. Unfortunately, I was not able to set up Emergo for this screening, Castle's huckster gimmick in which an illuminated skeleton dangling from a zip-line was dangled above moviegoers heads at the appropriate moment.
The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen House on Haunted Hill on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 9:15 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.
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| Genre: | Horror |
| Director: | William Castle |
| Starring: | Vincent Price Carol Ohmart Richard Long Alan Marshal Carolyn Craig Elisha Cook Jr |
| Rated: | NR |
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