With just the slightest (sixties friendly) hints of sado-masochism Raging, almost uncontrollable fury that seems to spark the characters. Images that evoke a Freudian unconscious or even Jungian archetypes, in House on Haunted Hill, the Freudian element is pure Id, a Poe outings often do, at least with regard to the obviously tumultuous marriage between Loren and Annabelle. One kind of notable thing about House on Haunted Hill is how it traffics in some psychological underpinnings in the way the Corman Wig, but it's all at the service of what turns out to be a fairly rote, but still fun, tale of several people scheming against each other. Sure, there are ghosties and goblins and even a crazed woman in a fright
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House movie as it is a mystery caper with murderous overtones. Hill actually relies on a perhaps somewhat subtler conceit buried beneath its contrived setup: this is actually not that much of a haunted While "Emergo" may have been the advertised gimmick to get posteriors into seats back in the day, House on Haunted Pritchard, the owner who starts out the film warning everyone about disastrous consequences to follow. Nosed columnist (Julie Mitchum, Robert's real life sister), and Rounding out the house "guests" are a psychiatrist named Trent (Alan Manning), a hard Minds, with each other as the intended victim. In fact, both Loren and Annabelle seem to have mayhem, and maybe even murder, on their
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Not to be so happily ever after married to Loren. Also on hand is Loren's harridan wife Annabelle (Carol Ohmart), who in an early Nothing is ever really overtly developed in that regard. Long) named Lance and an employee of Loren named Nora (Carolyn Craig), whom the film posits as a pseudo-romantic couple, even if The house's owner Watson Pritchard (Elisha Cook) lets the audience know from the get go that things are not going to go well for everyoneĪ not exactly representative cross-section of the citizenry ends up at the spooky House on Haunted Hill, including a pilot (Richard Significant (for the late fifties, anyway) paycheck waiting for them should they make it through to sunrise. Plays an eccentric millionaire named Frederick Loren, who has invited a handful of people to try to survive a night in a haunted house, with a
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The overwhelming success of the previous year's The Fly. Skeleton he branded as "Emergo," The House on Haunted Hill helped cement Vincent Price's reputation as a leading horror star, after Directed by the inimitable William Castle, who provided some original theatrical exhibitions with one of his sillier gimmicks, a flying House, but for many the paradigm of this subgenre has been and will probably forever be 1959's goofily entertaining House on Make this an enjoyable "treat" for horror fans.Ī gaggle of strangers wandering into a supposedly haunted mansion may have been a cinematic staple since at least 1932's The Old Once again generally strong technical merits and some fun supplements Outings for other production entities (as well as some AIP features). Volume just in time for this year's Halloween festivities, casting a somewhat wider net that features some of Price's horror themed Gaggle of Price's American International Pictures releases, often made in collaboration with Roger Corman.
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Screamįactory, the horror themed imprint of Shout! Factory, gave Price fans a great Halloween present last year when they released The Vincent Price Collection, which included a Vincent Price's career spanned everything from classic noir ( Laura) to somewhat questionable biographies (he played a rather unlikely Joseph Smith in Brigham Young in a film whichĪlways delighted this non-Mormon Utah native), but Price's lasting legacy will probably always be the horror films he started making in theġ950s with the now iconic House of Wax 3D.
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Note: This film is available in the bundle The Vincent Price Collection II. Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, October 18, 2014