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Say what you want about producer/director William Castle (The Tingler, 13 Ghosts, Mr. Sardonicus) but one thing was for determined…he knew how to enjoy seats in a movie theater, primarily by forcing some sort of reveal interaction between the audience and the film (at least in his anxiety themed features) . In House on Petrified Hill (1959), he utilized a technique he called `Emergo’, which essentially featured a skeleton, suspended from wires, coming from the shroud towards the audience during a specific share of the movie, the intent being to dread the pants off those in the theater. From what I’ve heard, it didn’t sound like many were apprehensive, but it didn’t really matter as Castle was a master at selling the sizzle, rather than the steak, as they say, and audiences flocked to his films…produced and directed by William Castle, the film features the merchant of menace himself Vincent Ticket (The Cruise, The Tingler, House of Usher) in the first of two films he made with Castle. Also appearing is Elisha Cook Jr. (Shane, The Fearful Palace), Carolyn Craig (Giant), Richard Long (Ma and Pa Kettle), Carol `homina homina’ Ohmart (Spider Baby), Alan Marshal (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), and Julie Mitchum (Edge of Hell), sister of actor Robert Mitchum.
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Price plays Frederick Loren, an eccentric millionaire who, along with his wife Annabelle (Ohmart), has thrown together an fascinating small party enthralling five, seemingly random strangers gathering at a tremulous house with ten thousand dollars to each who dare stop through the night. In attendance, along with Frederick and his wife, is Watson Pritchard (Cook), whose brother, one of the previous owners, was murdered within the house, Lance Schroeder (Long), a test pilot, Dr. David Trent (Marshal), a psychiatrist, Nora Manning (Craig), a typist, and Ruth Bridgers (Mitchum), a newspaper columnist. Seems all have agreed to play Frederick’s small game for one reason, they need the dough, and if some crazy rich dude is willing to fraction with his green for such a seemingly easy task, what the hay, upright? Well, the guests reach, introductions are made, and Frederick gives them the bulky lowdown. The secluded house is like a fortress (steel doors and bars on the windows) in that once they’re locked in (at midnight, to be valid), there’s no getting out until the caretakers approach the next morning. Also, there’s no electricity or telephones, and the nearest neighbors are well beyond yelling distance. After a tour of the house, highlighting where various evil events occurred (including a visit to the acid vat in the cellar…man, this station has everything), a few drinks, and some scares (the ghosts seem to have a thing for Nora), Fredrick passes out some party favors in the obtain of loaded handguns (nothing like being drunk and armed), not that they’d do anyone mighty satisfactory if there are ghosts out and about…anyway, midnight is coming so if anyone wants to slash out of this ghoulish earn together, they’d better accept while the getting’s grand…
While not my accepted Castle feature (that goes to The Tingler), House on Disquieted Hill is mild a hoot and a half for all of its campy, good-natured fun. The one thing this film has going for it, above and beyond everything else, is Vincent Notice. No matter how faulty the feature was (which wasn’t the case here), Trace always brought with him a proper sense of class and sophistication to the proceedings, especially lawful of the number of Poe based films he and Roger Corman made throughout the 1960s for American International Pictures. The absolute best parts of this movie for me occur early on as Price’s character is interacting with his wife, and we gape the pair have an intelligent hate/hate relationship…here’s an example of their often contemptible and insinuating banter they pick in slack closed doors…
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Fredrick: Of all my wives you’re least good…
Annabelle: But tranquil alive.
Here’s another bit…
Frederick: Do you remember the fun we had when you poisoned me?
Annabelle: Something you ate, the doctor said.
Frederick: Yes, arsenic on the rocks…
There are a few more wonderful exchanges between Notice and Ohmart, top-notch alone of seeing this film. As for the rest of the performers, I had no dependable complaints. Elisha Cook Jr.’s character did win on my nerves after awhile, with his constant dour outlook punctuated by his persistent `doom and gloom’ predictions. Drink some more booze, you rummy…seriously, all this guy did was talk about how the ghosts were going to advance and choose them all away. Perhaps this attitude was assisted by his excessive alcohol intake, but really, what’s the point of accepting an invitation to exhaust a night at a house you fill you won’t approach out of alive? The money? Won’t do you distinguished noble if’n you’re plain, fool. If I was in that house I probably would have shot him impartial to be rid of him. At least I learned one thing…never invite Elisha Cook Jr. to your party and ply him with lots of booze as he’ll turn into a loyal poison pill. I did like Ms. Ohmart, and not impartial because she was a smoking babe with a grand rack, but because she held her maintain with Notice, even if it was for fair a handful of scenes. If you’ve got a hankering to stare more of her, and you like ookie fright features, you should really check out another film she appeared in called Spider Baby (1968), featuring Lon Chaney Jr. There are a few, minor scares scattered throughout the film (a crusty crone, a disembodied head or two), but nothing that will accomplish you soil yourself…some scenes will form you snicker, though, like the one where Pritchard chucks a stupid rat into the acid vat, if only to indicate the acid is really acid. After some bubbling effects, a fully articulated rat skeleton bobs to the surface, indicating to those watching it truly is the valid deal. Yes sir, that be some remarkable acid…the movie may not be mighty for scares, but it does have plenty of atmosphere created by Castle’s direction, groovy, cobweb laden state pieces, spooky music, and usage of the Ennis Brown House in Los Angeles, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, for the exterior shots.
It seems this film has fallen into the public domain (i.e. the copyright expired), as I peer there are a number of DVD releases by various companies. I can’t dispute for those other releases, but the one I possess, save out by Warner Brothers (it has a stout headshot of Imprint in the lower honest hand corner and Ohmart in a nightgown being menaced by a disfigured hand in the upper left), looks exceptionally pleasurable, and features both the fullscreen and widescreen formats, along with a pleasurable Dolby Digital mono audio track. The only extras included are a theatrical trailer for the film and subtitles in both English and French.
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By the procedure, this movie saw a remake of the same titled, released in 1999, oozing with high tech special effects. It was decent enough, but I tranquil liked the unusual better.
William Castle at his gimmicky best! A Classic, spooky Gloomy and White, with deliciously devilish Vincent Designate as millionaire with a bored gold-digger wife. She wants a Halloween party with her friends, Notice tosses a party all lawful, but not with the people of her choosing. He offers $10,000 dollars to five stranger if they will join him and his wife in spending Halloween night in a truly stunned house. One of the 5 is a young Elisha Cooke, family of the feeble owners who died in the house, and he leads them on a cancel tour. To jazz things up, Trace passes out “party favors” – guns. And it’s a bustle to collect out whether Trace of his wife will be the last one standing. This movie is a grandfather of nearly every clichés, blooding dripping from the ceiling, shadowy mysterious corridors, a witchy woman floating around and vanishing – and the topper that organ music!! This is more like a Halloween Fun house plug than a movie! Mark is campy and has huge fun with the role, with well-organized lines, especially when fussing with his less than delighted wife.
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Castle originally devised this movie with “special touches” for the audiences, like ghost on wires gloating through the audience of people in costume sitting down beside you to enhance the fun house feel.
Just uninteresting fun and a wee run down memory lane.
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