How do they try to build a house on haunted the hill?
The Company Line They say that Vincent Price is “wonderful” and that he owns an “old, dark and evil mansion located on a haunted hill.” Several of his “enemies” are “bribed” with $10,000 to spend the night in the mansion. They are all given guns and then Price lets loose some gadgets to “frighten his visitors into using their weapons.” One of “producer/director William Castle’s best films.” 1958, 75 minutes, VHS The Review Okay, if you have ever seen this movie, you will realize that the dude writing the copy for the back of the Diamond DVD (only $6.99) hasn’t seen it . First of all, Vincent Price does not own the mansion. He is simply renting it for a party. Second, these aren’t his enemies that he bribes to stay there, but mostly strangers he has no relationship to. Third, he does use a single gadget at the very end to take care of a little business, but all the other stuff that happens isn’t done by him. I guess when you pay $6.99 for a DVD double feature, you should expect a $6.99
House on Haunted Hill is a 1999 horror film, directed by William Malone and starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter and Jeffrey Combs. It also includes a cameo appearance by Peter Graves. Produced by Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver, it is a remake of the 1959 film of the same name directed by William Castle, borrowing elements from the 1973 classic Don’t Look in the Basement. House on Haunted Hill marks the producing debut of Dark Castle Entertainment, a production company that went on to produce Thir13en Ghosts and House of Wax, two films which were also remakes of William Castle’s films. The film was followed by a sequel, Return to House on Haunted Hill, which was released in both rated and unrated editions on DVD in 2007. Plot The film is set in an abandoned asylum, the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane, where numerous murders were committed in the past. The head of the facility, Dr. Richard B. Vannacutt (Jeffrey Combs), performed grotes
