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Haunted house! wouldn't catch me there!

Advantages: A classic, quite good effects for its time
Disadvantages: its in black and white

...to stay in their haunted house for the night. If they manage to stay the night each person will recieve $10 000! The only thing is that there are fhosts in the house. From the people who were murdered there before. Each of the people who were murdered were murdered in different rooms by a different mean. * Special effects* When i watched it i was surpised how good the effects are for an old film. They aren't as fake looking as i thought they would ...
...are very fake. But the effects aren't really that bad. But in the film they didn't use many effects because it is left more to your mind. *music* i think this is what made it a bit jumpy. The music is used really well to make you jump a little bit which is a good thing since it is a horror film. with this film i thought it was sort of scary. but since it was released in 1959 we have moved on a bit with effects so this didn't make it that scary. ...

tasha_92 30.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review of House On Haunted Hill (DVD)

2 out of 3 ain't bad

Advantages: A Bucket of Blood and House on Haunted Hill
Disadvantages: The Ghoul

A Bucket of Blood is one of my favourite classics. An enjoyable 'Wax Museum' genre that takes a slightly different approach. This time, the artist is actually very slow witted and has no talent, as you will see. He works at a coffee shop full of poets and art buffs and wants so desperately to join their world. So, one thing leads to another, and, if your familiar with the genre, you know how it goes. House on Haunted Hill is one of the great classics ...
...horror or is it murder-mystery. To answer that question, i would have to spoil it. So, watch and find out for yourself, you won't be dissappointed. Unfortunately, The Ghoul is probably one of Karloff's worst. Karloff is one of my favourites, but he doesn't really act in this one. The story is very slow, and doesn't build up to anything all that shocking. Just some ancient Egyptian Mummy curse, some rich guy trying to be immortal. Nothing I haven't ...

alvila 16.12.2006 · Read full review
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Review of 3 Classic Horrors Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 2 - A Bucket Of Blood / House On Haunted Hill / The Ghoul (DVD)

Haunted House on a Hill

Advantages: Brilliant for its time and today
Disadvantages: Rather short, Only 71 minutes

House on Haunted Hill was made in 1959 by William Castle a prolific director of horror films including the original Rosemary's Daughter and 13 Ghosts. It is definitely one of the best horror films of all time. The film starts and are introduced to Watson Pritchard the owner of the house. He ominously informs us of the houses history. How his brother and sister--in-law have been murdered there along with 5 other people. Then we meet Mr. Loren (played ...
...throw a party in the house for his wife. He invites five complete strangers to come along all of whom are in need of money and he has promised them $10,000 each if they stay the whole night. In this group we have a test pilot, a psychiatrist, a journalist, a employee of Loren's called Nora and Pritchard the owner. They've all never met before and fond the whole affair rather mysterious. Loren's wife shows no interest in the house she has clearly ...

Phelthew 11.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of House On Haunted Hill (DVD)

ONLY ABOUT 13 GHOSTS

Advantages: good compilation
Disadvantages: --

...will not admit this. Well, 13 Ghosts wallows in the fact that it is trash, throwing in all of the above plus some nudity and self-deprecation. This does not work, mostly because the plot collapses under its own ponderous weight about two-thirds of the way through the movie. 13 Ghosts turns into the typical horror movie, with all its characters making stupid decisions while the monsters chase them. This is a remake of the 1960 movie of the same name, ...
...The House on Haunted Hill. 13 Ghosts also takes place in a house that's haunted, but this house is different. It belonged to rich eccentric Cyrus Kriticos (F. Murray Abraham, Finding Forrester, The Darkling). Upon Cyrus' death, he willed the house to his nephew Arthur (Tony Shaloub, Spy Kids, Galaxy Quest), a down-on-his-luck math professor. Arthur, his daughter Kathy (Shannon Elizabeth, American Pie 2, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back), son Bobby ...

vader_ek2 17.02.2006 · Read full review
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Review of 13 Ghosts / Darkness Falls / The Haunting (DVD)

THE HOUSE IS ALIVE

Advantages: Good for scaring, great acting better then first one
Disadvantages: Little drawn out

...Famous remakes/Interactive menus/Scene access/Trailers House on Haunted Hill was released in 1999 and it's one of those films that don't scare me but the beginning does creep me out a little knowing stuff that was done has happened in history. And I think it was just long enough to tell the story like it was but if it was any longer it would of started to bore people a bit well that's my opinion any way. Its classes as a horror thriller but i ...
...birthday party in this big house she saw on the telly it used to be a nut house and it was turned into a home but they never changed the lower half of the house where the patients used to be kept. Any way she wrote a list of people who was invited to the party but Stephan wanted to get his own back and ripped up her list and made one of his own but still that list didn't last long in the sense you saw the computer deleting the list Stephan wrote ...

MotherMacLean 28.06.2004 · Read full review
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Review of House On Haunted Hill (DVD)