When an eccentric millionaire offer a group of opposites $1,000,000 to spend the night in a so called "Haunted House" with a murderous past, they figure it is a quick way to get quick money and leave.

The iconic Universal Monster films were being phased out ... One of the finest examples of this was The House on Haunted Hill. The 1959 horror mystery combined the best campy elements of the ...

The screenplay is the one about the group of people who promise to spend the night in a haunted house. In this case ... perambulating skeletons. Haunted Hill is expertly put together.

House on Haunted Hill plays out more like a fantastically engrossing mystery than a horror movie, the premise a precursor to films like House of 9 (2004). Sightings of a “ghost” turn out to be ...