Review of House on Haunted Hill (1959) by Jeff B — 14 Aug 2010

?House on Haunted Hill? is the Original 1958/1959 B-Movie Horror classic among William Castles & Vincent Price Movies, The Movie already shit me up with the first scream & the goulash sound with a head coming out of nowhere I know this was already going to be the best spooky ghost story old film styled that will become a classic among Horror Movie that I?ve mainly watched for the past four years. This movie was an old Spooky story that really does make you think what going to happen next & how supernatural the movie was for its time, as William Castles made the film into a classic gimmick but yet very scary & tense terror, the acting was brilliant standard from all the actors & by of course the horror legend Vincent Price, the music really got to me as it was the most frighten sounds that I?ve heard in an only film and I would have to say it a good old fashion Haunted House with abit of gore & loads of terror & scares (for the year that it was made it was very impressive witty & clever gags & smart terror on the audience that one shocking scene with the housekeep got me good, but it was very funny after I found out she was a housekeep, because at first I thought she was a ghost).

The movie did set a dark horror humour tone & was a somewhat magic way of the cavities that was put into this film that is much better than the Remake one (as the original was much smarter and had more character depth) and the ending was one of those did they all die or not as I think they did, but its up to the audience to decide, which I found it to be entering sort of ending for the type 7 year as it keep an old classic horror ending for its years time, all in all for an 1hour 15minute watch it was extremely pure terror, spooky & really terrifying style set of shock & horror & as it time 1958/1959 the movie had really come out before its time & William Castle set House on Haunted Hill standard of the Ghost story/supernatural film for it time & genre, while make the update/Remake version look weak & was soo glad to see the original (even though it was short time & did have much of a storyline un-like the Remake & never found out what that hairy monster hand was about or what or who is was & what he/she was going to do?, as these are only the bad points of them film).