Excellent, Without a doubt!!

As Good As It Gets

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Millionaire Fredrick Loren (Vincent Price)has assembled a group of people from all walks of life to a rented mansion in which each guest would receive $10,000 if they stay the entire night and of course stay alive to enjoy the earnings. You see this unique edifice (which resembled a prison,) nestled on the Hollywood Hills has a tragic history filled with unsolved murders,carnage galore and Ghosts? Watson Pritchard (Elisha Cook) narrates his interest in this evil house of horrors as one of the returned guests. Previously Watson was found barely alive the next morning but his brother was murdered in such a grotesque way that he is coming back for a second attempt to survive the night. He also claims he needs the money. Cook's narration is what sold me and grabbed my curiosity in this movie. Our distinguished host Mr. Loren who coordinated this party without the help of his 4th Wife Annabel (Carol Ohmart), who stays in her room with no interest of parties or guests but throws plenty of condesending remarks at her husband and no shortage of friction and nasty quips between them, Mr. Loren aims a Champagne bottle at her head which sets up a caveat of things to come. There is questions as to what happened to the other three wives? All I know is Mr. Loren had fantastic alibi's and attorney's. Besides Watson Pritchard other guests include Actor Richard Long,Carolyn Craig (Nora Manning) hired for her fever pitched screaming which is heard throughout the movie. Julie Mitchum plays a gambler,columnist and has a problem erasing a marked hand. Rounding out our list is Dr. David Trent (Alan Marshal). Marshal and Annabell have a secret romance brewing but our host Mr. Loren has other plans. Honorable mention to our scene stealer the elderly, craggy Leona Anderson who plays a floating ghoul and doubles as Mrs. Slydes. When you get right down to it this movie really doesn't show an slashing or bloodshed but it does terrify you. Will our guest make it through the night? Will Mr. Loren be a widower for the 4th time? Will Mrs. Loren be the merry widow with her new Doctor Boyfriend? Will Nora Stop screaming through the night? Will Miss Bridges stop rubbing her hands? Mr. Pitchard wondering will the ghosts come for you and you? As I watch this horror movie through the years I was first terrified but over time became a fan of horror/ comedy genre films. Vincent Price's lines are wry and comical in the scenes with his wife.To quote Lord Byron,"All comedies end with marriage!" Just one of those films that keeps you wondering.

House on Haunted Hill is directed by William Castle. The film stars Vincent Price, Elisha Cook Jr., Richard Long, Carol Ohmart, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig and Julie Mitchum.Millionaire Frederick Loren(Vincent Price)and his wife Annabelle (Carol Ohmart)invite five guests for Annabelle's birthday party. They are pilot Lance Schroeder(Richard Long),Mr. Pritchard (Elisha Cook Jr.)the current owner of the house, Nora Manning(Carolyn Craig), Dr. David Trent(Alan Marshal)and Ruth Bridgers(Julie Mitchum.This is a party with a difference, the group will have to spend the night in a famous haunted house. The guests will be paid ten thousand dollars each if they stay(and survive)the whole night. As the night goes on some very frightening and strange events occur and things take a deadly turn. Are there really violent spirits haunting this house? Can the group trust one another? This film is a perfect mix of horror and comedy, there are some very scary moments(the ghostly apparitions and the blood stain)and two terrific twists.Vincent Price is the highlight amongst the cast, his character is a very clever and observant man and Price gets the films best lines. Elisha Cook Jr. steals every scene he's in as the man who believes in the ghosts and is obsessed by the murders that occurred in the house.This is great fun and it's a film that I never get tired of watching, perfect viewing for Halloween or a dark and stormy day.

6.9 is underrating this movie. It is a very scary movie. A rich couple find a gorp of people who need money. And offer then a lot of money if the send the night in a haunted house. The remake from 1999 it a scarier. The follow up to the 1999 version The Return to the house on haunted hill is also scarier. But still this is one of the scariest movies to come before 1999. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. Vincent Price was a great actor. Carol Olmart was a great actress. Richard Long was a great actor. Alan Marshal was a great actor. Carolyn Craig was great actress. All The House on Haunted hill movies are must sees.

Just recently downloaded a movie app and watched the original House on Haunted Hill, haven't seen that movie in 20, 25 years. Could not remember too much about the movie, except Vincent Price and his on stage wife, Carol Ohmart, could not remember her name at all, except she was hot. There was another actress, Carolyn Craig, who throughout the movie was a screamer, she had some lines but did more screaming than anything else. I started to laugh, she did it so much, her lungs and voice got a good workout on this movie. There were two kind of a funny scenes, the first wasn't meant to be funny but Carolyn Craig went running down the hall past Vincent Price's bedroom screaming her head off, two or three seconds latter, Alan Marshal, who played a psychiatrist walks to Vincent Price's door and knocks, Price opens the door and says, did you hear something? The second funny scene was a skeleton floats out of the acid vat and chases Vincent Price's wife around the basement until she falls in the acid, a false wall opens and Price walks out wearing a contraption with thick string controlling the skeleton, actually he looked like he was getting tangled up in the string. Maybe the acid works on skin but not on string. Elijah Cook Jr was also in the movie, his lines basically were, the ghosts are all around us, they are getting closer, you never really see any ghosts, except a crazy looking old lady. Carolyn goes running upstairs screaming into the living room, everybody says what happened, she told them she saw a ghost in the basement and describes it, Vincent Price says, that's not a ghost,that's the caretakers wife.