The Cadillac funeral cars in procession at the beginning of the film are various model years.
In the next scene when they pull up in front of the house they are all the same year.
As Annabelle is lowered after her hanging, the supporting rope is slack and obviously not bearing her weight.
When Annabelle gives Frederick her gun, he places it in the mini-coffin and closes the coffin.
However, in one of the next shots, we see that all coffins are open.
Lance locks his door from the inside with a deadbolt after the Doctor calls everybody to the meeting, and leaves through Nora's door.
When they return from the meeting he opens his own, unlocked, door from the outside.
After Nora throws everyone out of her room and the others are talking in the hall, someone's hand comes into the shot in the lower left corner of the screen.
After Nora brings everyone to the cellar when Lance gets locked in the room you see Mr.
Loren light a candle when he goes to enter, but the room itself lights up before he even enters the room.
After Lance pulls Nora out of the way of the falling chandelier his arm alternates back and forth, from being around her shoulders to being around her waist.
After the guests have locked themselves in their rooms, Nora emerges, goes to the end the hall and discovers Annabelle swinging from a noose.
Nora screams.
She backs into a corner and is confronted with a monster hand and screams again.
Next scene, the doctor knocks on Mr.
Loren's door and asks him if he heard anything strange, to which Mr.
Loren replies that he thought he heard footsteps.
How did no one heard Nora screaming? If the caretakers are real people, how can they stand in the doorway without saying a word and suddenly disappear? Also, how does the wife float in mid-air, glide around the cellar and not be seen by Lance when she passes through the doorway to the next room where he is waiting? She doesn't react to a bloodcurdling scream right next to her - is she deaf as well as blind? If she is blind, how does she head straight for and cleanly through that doorway? When using candles in the rooms in the basement, the candlelight is obviously a spotlight as the shadows of the candle and silhouette of the person are displayed on the wall, when all there should be is candlelight.
It is established that no one can get out of the house due to the locked metal door and bars on all the windows, yet Annabelle somehow gets outside so she can pretend to be a ghost outside Nora's window.
Loren drops the skeleton back into the acid from which it had emerged unscathed.
Some have interpreted this act as destroying the evidence of his crime and the two being self-contradictory.
However, there is no hint of motive for Loren's returning it to the vat and no bubbling effect to indicate any dissolution of the skeleton.
Furthermore, Watson Pritchard had not only previously stated that the acid leaves bones behind, but he had demonstrated it by tossing in the body of a dead rat.
The house is supposed to have been built in the 1850s, and the interiors are typical Victorian era mansion sets, but exteriors are of a house designed in the 1920s by 'Frank Lloyd Wright (I)' (qv) which still looked very modern when this film was made more than 20 years later.
After he and Trent have found the hanging body of Annabelle, Lance tells Nora that Loren said she committed suicide, but it was Trent who proclaimed that she had hanged herself.
After Trent and Lance lower the hanging body of Annabelle and are joined by Loren, Trent states that she hanged herself.
However, just a few minutes later when all but Nora are gathered in the parlor, Trent explains how it was clearly a physical impossibility for Annabelle to have done herself in.
Frederick Loren announces at the start of the challenge that if any of the contestants die, the deceased's heirs will get his/her $10,000.
Later he says that if any of the five contestants die, the total $50,000 will be split evenly among the survivors.
However, the initial statement is spoken directly to the film's audience, is not part of the actual plot line, and therefore does not really contradict the terms subsequently described to the genuine characters.
When the skeleton is walking after Annabelle towards the end of the movie, it is clearly made of plastic.
Loren shakes an unopened bottle of "champagne" and points it menacingly at his wife, yet when the bottle is opened there is no effervescent "fountain" nor bubbles visible in their glasses when poured.
Just recently downloaded a movie app and watched the original House on Haunted Hill, haven't seen that movie in 20, 25 years. Could not remember too much about the movie, except Vincent Price and his on stage wife, Carol Ohmart, could not remember her name at all, except she was hot.
Oscar worthy movie, this is not, but if you are looking for a truly creepy movie, then this will suffice.Vincent Price is exquisite and encompasses his character's personality with perfection.
It's a shame this "remake" has the same name as the original.I can only wonder how many people attempt to rent the original and mistakenly get this debacle and are disappointed beyond belief.
OK, maybe not fully, but there're enough campy suspense and horror to be entertaining.
THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL does play better late night, and sure enough, I caught it Saturday night at the stroke of midnight. The ever inventive William Castle brought this exercise in chills to the screen, and on a shoestring budget at that, and shrewdly succeeded in making something out of nothing.
Am I the only one to notice that Carol Ohmart's Annabelle is wearing the same negligee as Agnes Moorehead in The Bat?
Chiller movie , especially remembered for original gimmick of dangling a skeleton over the audiencies , including grisly horror , genuine chills and shocks taking place at an enormous , spooky, rented house in which some guests must spend overnight with the host offering them a million of dollars if they can stick it out for the complete night. This William Castle's film deals with eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren (Vincent Price) and his 4th wife, Annabelle (Carol Ohmart) , have invited 5 people (Richard Long , Alan Marshal, Elisha Cook Jr.
It's understandable how this movie is a classic. At the time it was quite something, definitely showing Price's skills at being creepy as hell.
