House on Haunted Hill

Jan 1, 1959

1h 15m

★ 6.8

Consult your doctor! Bring your seatbelt!

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.

Genres

Horror

Mystery

Production Companies

William Castle Productions

Allied Artists Pictures

House on Haunted Hill Trailers

Cast

Frederick Loren

Vincent Price

Annabelle Loren

Carol Ohmart

Lance Schroeder

Richard Long

Dr. David Trent

Alan Marshal

Nora Manning

Carolyn Craig

Watson Pritchard

Elisha Cook Jr.

Ruth Bridgers

Julie Mitchum

Mrs. Slydes

Leona Anderson

Jonas Slydes

Howard Hoffman

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