Plot

House on Haunted Hill 1959

Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime.

He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house.

But the house is no ordinary house. This house has a reputation for murder.

Frederick offers them each a gun for protection.

They all arrived in a hearse and will either leave in it $10,000 richer or leave in it dead!

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Starring

Vincent Price as Frederick Loren
Carol Ohmart as Annabelle Loren
Richard Long as Lance Schroeder
Alan Marshal as Dr. David Trent
Carolyn Craig as Nora Manning
Elisha Cook Jr. as Watson Pritchard (credited as Elisha Cook)
Julie Mitchum as Ruth Bridgers
Leona Anderson as Mrs. Slydes
Howard Hoffman as Jonas Slydes
Skeleton as Himself

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Directed by William Castle
Written by Robb White
Music by Von Dexter

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Based on

The production of the film had been partly inspired by the success of Shirley Jackson's book, "The Haunting of Hill House", which had been released earlier that year.

Notably, the film's title is a reworking of Jackson's book title, and both reference the same subject.