House on Haunted Hill (Color + B&W)
by William Castle
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Actor: Carol Ohmart, Elisha Cook, Richard Long, Vincent PriceDirector: William Castle
Brand: LEG
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Restored
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: LF00414
Studio: Legend Films Inc.
Product features:
- Vincent Price stars as a suave, eccentric millionaire married to a beautiful and greedy gold digger. Together, they are hosting a party in a sinister haunted house. Five guests are invited to spend the night and each will get $10,000 - but only if they survive until morning. Presented in color for the first time and beautifully restored, this House on Haunted Hill is to die for. Our DVD contain
Movie Reviews of House on Haunted Hill (Color + B&W)
Movie Review: Great movie, amazing colorization
Summary: 5 Stars
I like Vincent Price & this movie, 'nuff said on that. What I would like to cover is this particular edition of this movie. Not only does this disk include the original B/W version & a new colorized version, but it also has a bonus audio track from the creators of Rifftrax. This Rifftrax only features Mike Nelson.
The original B/W seems to be cleaned-up high quality version (I own another disk from another publisher that is very bad on both audio & visual quality). I'm very happy with this B/W movie.
The colorized version is absolutely amazing. I normally don't like colorized B/W movies (I'm one who watches a lot of old B/W movies), they look fake and it can really ruin the feel of the movie. Many colorizations seem to forget to colorize the inner mouth, so that when someone is talking, it just looks freaky and disturbing. They also seem to try too hard, it's as if they can't accept that a film is done in B/W and rather than compliment the film or simply enhance, they try to make it a bright, colorful, modern looking film. Not so on this disk(at least not that I noticed). When I played the colorized film, I couldn't believe the quality. If I hadn't known this was originally a B/W film, I don't think I could have ever guessed it. I was very impressed with the job these guys did on the film, both in cleaning up the B/W and also with the colorization.
The concept of Rifftrax is to basically make fun of movies, usually bad ones. I've seen some bad movies that are "riffed" and frankly, if it's truly a terrible movie, there is no amount of "riffing" that can make it worth watching. They just aren't funny. Usually the best riffing is done on something that is either so old people don't understand the acting or writing style (and hence can make fun of it), or it's on a movie that isn't all that bad. This is one of those not so bad movies that are just fun & relaxing to watch. The only problem with the riffing on this movie is that the banter between the three guys (Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, & Kevin Murphy) is missing as Mike is doing all the riffing. I found this to be jarring and not very interesting as I'm accustomed to hearing all 3, each lending his own take on the particular riff. It's a nice bonus and I'm happy it's on there, but it shouldn't be a primary reason for a purchase.
I'm very happy I bought this version of this movie. I believe they also did a colorized version of "Last Man on Earth" and I'm hoping this company does other movies as well.
Summary of House on Haunted Hill (Color + B&W)
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 10/07/08
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
William Castle's gimmick-laden comic thriller is not so much a horror movie as a fairground funhouse come to life. Vincent Price stars as a deliciously silky millionaire married to a greedy gold digger (Carol Ohmart) who refuses to divorce him. When he turns his wife's idea for a haunted-house party into a contest--$10,000 to whoever will spend the night in "the only truly haunted house in the world"--it seems he may have found an alternative to divorce. Five strangers gather to test their stamina, Price hands each of them delightfully twisted party favors (loaded handguns, delivered in their own tiny coffins), and the spook show begins. Blood drips from the ceiling, zombielike apparitions float through rooms, severed heads and skeletons suddenly appear, and then a guest is found hanging in the stairwell. Full of screams and things that go bump in the night, House on Haunted Hill isn't particularly scary and often makes little sense, but, like a Halloween haunted house, the spectacle of spook-show clichés is quite entertaining, and Price makes a sardonic master of ceremonies. The original theatrical presentations featured a typically outrageous Castle-engineered gimmick: Emergo, which was nothing more than a skeleton that appeared to fly out of the screen and over the audience on a guide wire. --Sean Axmaker
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