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Oct 26, 2011 - 9:18 PM
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dan the man
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oK, folks this was not meant to be The haunting The innocents, the uninvited, The changeling or many other serious after life films. William Castle was both a filmmaker and a showman. There are some blatent cheesy effects, but i still say this is one of the most fun genre film ever made. Why? because if you want to believe it or not there is so much talent in it .That happens alot my friends.The actors are perfect for the movie, the sets are fantastic, Von Dexter's music score is great, the direction is on target, the few shock scenes work and then there is the 2 greatest things in cinema history, what a plot and what plot twists it has, i once tried a experiment with first time viewers on video a few years back, i kept on stopping the film after each scene and ask who do you think is guilty and what is going on, these intelligent viewers kept on changing their answers, back and forth as the film progress.Yes one more thing, the dialogue is so sardonic, so superb, so perfect, so melodramatic,so classic.plenty of people love this film and i think like a great pop song, they love it so much they don't really think how good it really is.
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William Castle films were the scariest things I'd ever seen when I watched them for the first time on TV at the age of 10. THE TINGLER, HOMICIDAL... they gave me nightmares for weeks, but none more so than HOUSE ON HANTED HILL. That was terribly scary for me.
Of course, nowadays when I see H on HH, I don't hide behind the sofa, but it still holds up as movie and the scares still work. And I now appreciate the tongue-in-cheek aspect (something that went over my 10-year-old head way back) as one of "showman" William Castle's trademarks.
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So I'm the only person who saw the Emergo presentation?! I saw all those Castle films during their original releases.
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vINCENT pRICE TO WIFE--Don't let the ghosts and the ghouls disturb you- in which she replies- Darling , the only ghoul in the house is you.------- in which he returns with the line- don't sit up all night thinking of ways to get rid of me, it makes wrinkles.Oh the bantering in this film is wonderful.
In both this film and THE TINGLER.
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In both this film and THE TINGLER.
Few things are funnier to me than the moment in THE TINGLER when Price takes LSD and starts getting paranoid. The pained expressions of terror on his face send me into hysterics. 
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I saw a lot of the William Castle films when they originally came out, but at a local theatre, where they didn't present them in "Emergo" or electrify anyone's seat.
I'd go to the matinee on either Saturday or Sunday, along with a whole theatre-full of screaming kids. They were really fun.
I still recall the skeleton manipulating Carol Omhart into the pool of acid, and the audience screaming, because they can see where she's headed, and she doesn't seem to know.... Wild.
(As if anyone every has a "pool of acid" in the basement of their house....)
One stylized type of shot one seems to see in all these scare films is a view of whatever building where all the action takes place, usually accompanied by creepy music. It's in HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, as well as most of the Corman Poe films that I can remember, including HOUSE OF USHER, PIT AND THE PENDULUM, MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, and many others. This kind of shot always seems to turn up, sometimes more than once in any given film....
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