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geodeticman.5 · 07-12-2008, 12:07 AM

Nightingale - correct me if I am wrong - but wasn't it "House on Haunted Hill" not "The Haunting of Hill House" ? House on Haunted Hill I recall was with Vincent Price holding the Haunted House Party for his ascerbic wife, offering 1 million to whomever could spend the night - and it was all a sham with the skeleton on marionette strings, pushing people into the acid pit in the night ?

I think.... The movie you referred to was actually called The Haunting of Hill House circa '75 colour circa versus Vincent price per above around '65; B & W by Ralph Castle - known for his cheap in-theatre stage gags - in showings of the Vincent Price one - they would run a skeleton down over the audience on a cable - far cry from the slasher movies kids digest nowadays you could not pay me to watch.... and Castle's other haunting movie was "13 Ghosts" - a real bad saturday afternoon spooker where a Hugh Beaumont-type dad puts on "spectre-vision" glasses that allow him too see the thirteen ghosts - and the audience was given red and green folding "spectre-glasses" that allowed them to see pseudo-3D.-

I believe The Haunting of Hill House, in colour , yes, with Roddy McDowall, and the young woman scratched by the cat - and the ghost was of a man with very short legs. And the "Professor" (who was all along holding a study on fright) purged the house with an electro-magnetron - of course. I saw that in a theatre outside Purdue U in Lafayette, Indiana, double-dating with a guy who is now a monk.. and 2 girls from the University. Great Flick - colour. Both have been remade, and are horrible slashers - kids love 'em of course, not me..

Or, I've got it backwards, and u are right. ?? The monk was at Jaws 1st showing in Lafayette, double dating again, and when the head pops out of the dingy boat half-sunk underwater - my friend was so shocked he threw a 98 ounce Coke in one hand and 5-gallon butter pop-corn in the other - both in his own face - and the girls died laughing.....he was not a monk then safe to say... but corfidites remember my ramblings about the monk.. LOL what memories. Good old spookers. Forgive me if I am wrong Nightingale - I have not checked on-line 2 see if I am right - cause I don't believe in trivial (non GL matters...) in taking research time just to prove someone wrong... AHEM Sir John Ahem harrumph....! j/k ole' friend.
- ~geo steve

07-12-2008, 12:07 AM	#38
geodeticman.5 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eastern Slope urban corridor, Colo. USA Posts: 1,007	Re: Midwest flooding Nightingale - correct me if I am wrong - but wasn't it "House on Haunted Hill" not "The Haunting of Hill House" ? House on Haunted Hill I recall was with Vincent Price holding the Haunted House Party for his ascerbic wife, offering 1 million to whomever could spend the night - and it was all a sham with the skeleton on marionette strings, pushing people into the acid pit in the night ? I think.... The movie you referred to was actually called The Haunting of Hill House circa '75 colour circa versus Vincent price per above around '65; B & W by Ralph Castle - known for his cheap in-theatre stage gags - in showings of the Vincent Price one - they would run a skeleton down over the audience on a cable - far cry from the slasher movies kids digest nowadays you could not pay me to watch.... and Castle's other haunting movie was "13 Ghosts" - a real bad saturday afternoon spooker where a Hugh Beaumont-type dad puts on "spectre-vision" glasses that allow him too see the thirteen ghosts - and the audience was given red and green folding "spectre-glasses" that allowed them to see pseudo-3D.- I believe The Haunting of Hill House, in colour , yes, with Roddy McDowall, and the young woman scratched by the cat - and the ghost was of a man with very short legs. And the "Professor" (who was all along holding a study on fright) purged the house with an electro-magnetron - of course. I saw that in a theatre outside Purdue U in Lafayette, Indiana, double-dating with a guy who is now a monk.. and 2 girls from the University. Great Flick - colour. Both have been remade, and are horrible slashers - kids love 'em of course, not me.. Or, I've got it backwards, and u are right. ?? The monk was at Jaws 1st showing in Lafayette, double dating again, and when the head pops out of the dingy boat half-sunk underwater - my friend was so shocked he threw a 98 ounce Coke in one hand and 5-gallon butter pop-corn in the other - both in his own face - and the girls died laughing.....he was not a monk then safe to say... but corfidites remember my ramblings about the monk.. LOL what memories. Good old spookers. Forgive me if I am wrong Nightingale - I have not checked on-line 2 see if I am right - cause I don't believe in trivial (non GL matters...) in taking research time just to prove someone wrong... AHEM Sir John Ahem harrumph....! j/k ole' friend. - ~geo steve Last edited by geodeticman.5; 07-12-2008 at 12:14 AM.