House on Haunted Hill (original)Despite being in my "craptastic classics" boxset the original House on Haunted Hill is actually a good movie.
Five strangers are invited to a house where they are promised 10 000$ if they can survive the night.
The film plays out like sort of murder mystery/ghost story and doesn't follow any horror movie conventions we are so used to seeing these days. Because of this, some moments in this movie actually made me tense and frightened, something no recent modern horror movie has managed to make me feel.
Vincent Price, and his mustache, are amazing. He plays the wealthy man that organizes the get together. He is delightfully comical yet threatening at the same time. The other actors also do a great job but none of them really stand out. The movie is short and sweet and the ending is really great. It is not what you would expect.
This is a definite horror classic and apparently its success is what made Hitchcock decide to make Psycho.
Thank you Vincent Price, thank you.
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