Movie
House on Haunted Hill
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1959-01-01
- Runtime
- 75 min
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery
- Status
- Released
- Production
- William Castle Productions, Allied Artists Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Vincent Price as Frederick Loren
- Carol Ohmart as Annabelle Loren
- Richard Long as Lance Schroeder
- Alan Marshal as Dr. David Trent
- Carolyn Craig as Nora Manning
- Elisha Cook Jr. as Watson Pritchard
- Julie Mitchum as Ruth Bridgers
- Leona Anderson as Mrs. Slydes
- Howard Hoffman as Jonas Slydes
- Skeleton as Skeleton
Crew
- William Castle - Director
- Robb White - Writer
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