Hooptober 8.0 – House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Being Film #14 for Hooptober 2021
After a rough week I decided I needed a break for all the modern gore and guts and decided to turn to a campy favorite I hadn’t seen in a while. William Castle was maybe known more for his gimmicks to pack theaters than the quality of his films, but that doesn’t stop House on Haunted Hill from being a wicked little fun film. Featuring a wonderfully ham-fisted Vincent Price performance, the film is a lean, dirty little morality tale that works despite (or maybe because of) the strings attached to the ghouls and frights on display.
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