It feels as thought Pritchard is speaking to us, almost warning us of the dangers. As Pritchard continues, he speaks of the murders of seven people within the home, brutal murders as we find, further stating he once stayed overnight at the house, being discovered in the morning barely alive. As he introduces himself as Watson Pritchard ( Elisha Cook Jr.), a brief history of the house is recalled to the audience, one that cements it in a horrific haunting that threatens to endanger all who stay there. Following a scream and the sound of metal shakers to the a black screen, a lonely head zooms close into the frame. What you will not expect is the potential breaking of the fourth wall in the very opening moments of the film. If you have seen the 1999 version of House on Haunted Hill, you will know the general premise going into the original. And as we mark the days to scariest of the year, it seemed the perfect fit! An Original Haunting Having watched the remake in my teens, the familiarity drew me to this classic, providing a chance to hold the remake against its predecessor. For this Halloween countdown, William Castle’s House on Haunted Hill stood out. While I kicked off the year with House of Wax, there are still a plethora of films starring the horror legend to embark on.
With a familiarity of the legend cemented in Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and his role as the Inventor in Edward Scissorhands, Vincent Price was a name I grew up with but never truly appreciated. An icon of the genre in his own right, Vincent Price was a personal requirement this month, an unmistakable voice and face whose films I have still yet to make a dent in. With our Halloween countdown just about wrapped up, I would be remised if I did not include one of the most prominent faces (and voices!) in horror. Join us as we dive deep into the heart of horror, but warning, there will be spoilers. And occasionally looking at those that could have pushed the envelope further. Twice a month, I will be tackling all things horror, bringing two films back into the spotlight to terrify and frighten once more. We hear disembodied screams and voices throughout movie.Welcome back to the newest, and at times goriest, column here at Film Inquiry: Horrific Inquiry. A man is caught on a dizzying carousel and a couple are stuck on a high ledge. We see an elevator that appears to be crashing and a scary roller coaster ride. In a couple of scenes a house falls apart and explodes. We see a bloody head, bloody eviscerated body parts and a bloody, decapitated corpse we also see a room of decayed corpses and skeletons several times, a group of charred corpses, a head in a glass with stitches on its eyes and mouth, many faces of dead people appearing in the dark, quick flashes of monsters and blood, a man with glowing eyes, a ghost holding a bloody knife and walking jerkily, and disembodied images of eyes, faces and monsters. We see lots of blood: puddles of blood on the floor, blood on walls and ceilings, blood dripping or gushing from people's mouths, bloody facial cuts, bloody hands and arms and blood on sheets and clothing. A glass ceiling collapses on people and metal bars slam down trapping people inside a house. A man pulls a woman's hair and she bites his hand, a man chokes a woman and throws her around and we see a fistfight with punches and rolling on the floor (we also hear a gunshot during this scene). A woman's body jerks violently during electroshock therapy. A man is gagged and put into water with a woman who drools blood before turning into a monster. A man jumps into vat of blood and a woman is nearly sucked into it as she struggles to rescue him. A man cuts his hand while breaking a glass window he screams when another man pours alcohol on the wound. A man's head is used as a basketball and we see a man with a huge, bloody cavity where his face used to be. A surgeon makes an incision on a conscious man's chest he screams and we see lots of blood well up on his chest. Huge, dark ghosts attack people and "suck" them in and ghosts grab a woman and turn her into skeleton. A woman stabs a man in the abdomen repeatedly (we see lots of blood on his torso, her hands and the knife) and a woman shoots a man many times (he has blood on his hands and shirt and she gets blood on her dress). VIOLENCE/GORE 9 - Patients attack their attendants, throwing people against walls, drowning someone in a bathtub full of water and poking a bundle of pencils through a man's neck (we see lots of blood on his neck and mouth).
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