[7.2/10] Watched this one at a Halloween party, with the usual sort of merriment, laughing, and talking over the film, so take this all with a grain of salt, but this was an enjoyable heap of camp. I couldn’t recall whether I’d seen Vincent Price outside of *Edward Scissorhands* so it was fun to see him skulking around in his natural environment. The mystery was sufficiently convoluted and twisty to be fun, and mixing the supernatural horror elements with the parlor mystery and jilted lovers bit paid dividends. There’s plenty of artifacts of the time -- most notably how many times the women are accused of being “hysterical” -- but for the most part its kitschy charms are quite endearing.

Poor to me. Although it sounds strange, the remake is better

I thought this film was pretty good. The story was interesting, somewhat predictable sometimes, but it kept me entertained throughout the entire film. There were some scenes with haunting background music, which complimented those scenes perfectly. I especially thought the scene with the skeleton at the end was very entertaining.

I had high expectations for this but I guess I thought it was going to be scary. There is one very memorable shock and it's a good one. Actually, it's more than a fright, it's creepy. But after that there was very little haunting going on. Instead it was about distrust and double-crosses between the guests. It seems the movie is misnamed.

Vincent Price really steals the show. He's such a ham, but he's so good at it. Richard Long is also excellent as his normal cool self. I feel the need to point out that Carolyn Craig may make you want to grab ear plugs. Her screams of terror made me cringe several times.

This is another relatively successful Vincent Price movie, but almost entirely on the strength of his enormous personality and screen presence.

i enjoyed this movie. Its campy and lots of fun. Actually i was expecting a straight up ghost story, but there's more going on here than that. Vincent Price is very good (nothing unusual there) and the skeleton scene at the end is great!

Featured in The Schlocky Horror Picture Show S02E08.

https://trakt.tv/shows/the-schlocky-horror-picture-show/seasons/2/episodes/8

In this oft-referenced pseudo-horror classic, Vincent Price lures five strangers to stay overnight at a notorious abandoned mansion, promising ten grand to those who make it through to the next morning. Price is perfectly in his element as the shifty, flamboyant playboy who's somehow able to deliver his lines with a straight face, especially when he breaks out a charming, housewifey set of party favors: a cute set of tiny coffins containing loaded pistols.

His ultimate reasoning for gathering this spooky little house party doesn't make very much sense, though, and the gotcha scenes are worse than I'd expect to find in a run-down amusement park's old haunted house. About as hammy and silly as it gets, it's tough to imagine anyone ever getting spooked out by this wacky form of the genre, but that doesn't mean it can't be entertaining for the wrong reasons. Even in the late fifties, I have to imagine it was better suited to laughs than it ever was to screams.