History Film / HouseOnHauntedHill1959

* TheBluebeard: Loren is on his fourth wife. The first one disappeared, and the second two died of heart attacks, despite being in their 20s. [[spoiler: The fourth one is scared to death during the course of the party. She was a GoldDigger planning to murder Loren for his money, however, casting an unsavory light on the intentions of the first three.]]
** In retrospect however [[spoiler: We can't be sure that his first three wives did die under such mysterious circumstances, since the person who described them was trying to create an alibi for Loren's eventual demise.]]

* DomesticAbuse:
** Loren skates along the edge of this as he prepares his reluctant wife for her party.

** Annabelle, meanwhile, has tried to poison him at least once before the events of the film start.

** In Nora's defense, would you be willing to pick up a severed head and show it to everyone? Lance at least has the credit of not finding it by accident like Nora did and ''knowing'' it was there first.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: After all is said and done, [[spoiler: the existence of actual ghosts is left ambiguous.]]

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'''''House on Haunted Hill''''' (1959) is a [[BMovie low budget]] {{horror}} {{film}} directed by Creator/WilliamCastle, regarding five people who have been invited to stay the night in a HauntedHouse.

* DemBones: The living skeleton that appears before Annabelle. [[spoiler:It's actually Dr. Loren's skeleton, which is controlled by Frederick.]]

** Annabelle, meanwhile, has tried to poison him at least once before the events of tge film start.

* TheAlcoholic: Pritchard, after his brother and sister-in-law were murdered in the house.

** OutGambitted: "Little did you know, as you were playing your game... that [[spoiler: I was playing too]]."

* DemBones: The living skeleton that appears before Annabelle. [[spoiler:It's actually Dr. Loren's skeleton.]]
* DomesticAbuse: Loren skates along the edge of this as he prepares his reluctant wife for her party.

** Annabelle, meanwhile, has tried to poison him at least once when the film starts.

* HollywoodAcid: Doesn't eat at bone [[spoiler:or for that matter, [[SpecialEffectFailure strings]]]].
** Or the winery container it's stored in.

** TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: "They're coming for me now... and then they'll come for you."

* TakingYouWithMe / GhostlyGoals: [[spoiler: Subverted as part of Frederick's scheme.]]
-->But you're not going to live to enjoy it!

The film was [[Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1999 remade forty years later]] by Dark Castle Entertainment.

->''"I am Frederick Loren, and I have rented the house on haunted hill tonight so that my wife can give a party. A haunted house party. She's so amusing. There'll be food and drink and ghosts, and perhaps even a few murders. You're all invited. If any of you will spend the next twelve hours in this house, I will give you each ten thousand dollars, or your next of kin in case you don't survive. Ah, but here come our other guests."''

* ThePlace: The House on Haunted Hill

'''''House on Haunted Hill''''' (1959) is a [[BMovie low budget]] {{horror}} {{film}} directed by Creator/WilliamCastle, regarding five people who have been invited to stay the night in a haunted castle.

Frederick Loren (Creator/VincentPrice), an eccentric millionaire, is throwing his "party" for his fourth wife, Annabelle, with the stipulation that the power will be out and all doors will be locked at midnight, [[ClosedCircle allowing no accessible escape]]. Anyone who survives the night in the castle will be awarded $10,000. As the night progresses, however, it becomes clear that this is no game by the host - the partygoers are indeed trapped here with malevolent ghosts, murderers, and other terrors.

''House on Haunted Hill'' (1959) is a [[BMovie low budget]] {{horror}} {{film}} directed by Creator/WilliamCastle, regarding five people who have been invited to stay the night in a haunted castle.

%%* CollidingCriminalConspiracies
%%* ClosedCircle
%%* CreepyHousekeeper
%%* DemBones

%%* EnclosedSpace

%%* HauntedHouse

%%* KansasCityShuffle
* LargeHam: Frederick Loren. He's played by VincentPrice, so would you expect anything less?

%%* OldDarkHouse
%%* OminousPipeOrgan
%%* OnOneCondition

* ThePlace

'''''House on Haunted Hill''''' (1959) is a [[BMovie low budget]] {{horror}} {{film}} directed by William Castle, regarding five people who have been invited to stay the night in a haunted castle.

Frederick Loren (VincentPrice), an eccentric millionaire, is throwing his "party" for his fourth wife, Annabelle, with the stipulation that the power will be out and all doors will be locked at midnight, [[ClosedCircle allowing no accessible escape]]. Anyone who survives the night in the castle will be awarded $10,000. As the night progresses, however, it becomes clear that this is no game by the host - the partygoers are indeed trapped here with malevolent ghosts, murderers, and other terrors.

Matching up with William Castle's SignatureStyle, the film originally released exhibiting one of his [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou past-the-fourth-wall]] gimmicks -- in this case, a model skeleton would be elevated over the movie audience during the climactic scene.

* CollidingCriminalConspiracies
* ClosedCircle
* CreepyHousekeeper
* DemBones

* EnclosedSpace
* HauntedHouse

* KansasCityShuffle

* OldDarkHouse
* OminousPipeOrgan
* OnOneCondition

* HauntedHouseHistorian

* ImpliedAttribute: We're informed at the beginning of the film that Ruth is a gambler. Are we shown anything of the sort? Nope.