The Terrifying Legacy of HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL
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I love the scene where she only sees them through the camcorder, lowers it, raises it and they're now looking straight at her, that was haunting.
Vincent Price is a legend. The man deserves all the recognition and love he gets. He truly is a horror icon.
The man needs his own holiday along with Rod Serling lol
YOU ARE CORRECT.
I'm Stephen gotdam Price!
I love William Castle. He was definitely more a showman than a director, and you can tell he absolutely relished giving his audience a thrill. Its sad that he ended up a victim of his reputation: He still dreamed of being a serious Hollywood filmmaker later in his career, and tried to make it happen by directing Rosemary's Baby. But the financier knew having Castle as director would send the wrong message and insisted on Roman Polanski. In the end, Castle settled for a producer credit, and also has a Hitchcock-esque cameo in the film. Just another way Castle helped influence the horror genre, even late in his career.
Ironically, if this situation played out today then hiring Polanski puts out the wrong message
The '99 remake also smashed a couple of horror movie tropes: final girl lives, with no zinger/twist ending AND her new friend, the "token black guy" not only survived the "first to die" cliche', but made it to the end!
Very similar to the stoner finally being the 'hero' in Cabin In The Woods.
Yeah I realized this the other night when I watched it and was glad to see it!
Could also throw in, that there are two survivors. That happens, sometimes, in thrillers or action movies. But, kinda rare in the horror genre. 👍🏻 It's a cheesey flick, but I like the ending and some of those images were genuinely creepy, especially for it's time.
I cannot think of an abundance of films where that cliche statement applied. It didn't apply to any of the cornerstone slasher films. It didn't apply to any of the universal monster flicks. It didn't apply to any of George Romero's Living dead films. Or a number of others. The statement itself is a cliche, but the content behind it is far from it.
Night of the Demons, both finale girl and token black guy survived the night 💄
Vincent Price made any and every film he was in a thousand times better by simply being in them.
That's the truth!
A man who always have a great performance no matter the film he was in
sounds a lot like christopher lee
Just like Tim Curry
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I enjoyed both versions. The remake is fun for what it is even though there is a horrible CGI at the end....eh but at least you get a funny line, "I had nothing to do with this. I was adopted!!!"
Creating the rare and fabled incident of a black person surviving a horror film.
Watched it for the first time with a group of friends at one of their houses, which happened to be in the middle of nowhere at the top of a huge hill. That made it significantly scarier and more enjoyable.
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The sequel ruined it for me though...
I think the bad CGI works it looks ethereal
Every time you bait us with Hill House I'm so convinced the next one is going to talk about it and especially the The Haunting Netflix anthology and I fall for it every time...
No joke, that old woman in the basement of the original is one of the most effective jumpscares ever in my opinion.
First time I saw the movie I let out a blood curdling scream when she turned around and saw the old lady. Just for that and Vincent Price the movie is special.
Definitely pooped my pants there
My grandma looooooooved Vincent Price and House on Haunted Hill was a favorite, so she showed me it when I was a toddler and that woman has haunted me ever sense. Her, and the decapitated head they find later.
Every time I am in a basement, I always think of her floating along or a head just hanging out.
Absolutely terrifying the first time you see it. Absolutely hilarious every time after that.
"Cindy this is a skeleton, this is bones.", the guys in the 1950s version really needed Brenda to solve their problems.
hahaha
Yep, that was Scary Movie 2's joke. The scene was referencing this movie.
I thought the remake had some legitimately tense sequences like when they catch the doctor on camera moving around the hospital, when he breaks the wall and the darkness comes out, and the ending sequence. And oh god, the hallucination inducing room was so creepy.
Dude that scene is probably the single best horror scene in all of cinema
that broad floating toward the window by a rope in house on haunted hill scared the absolute fuck outta me .
Under all the 50s cheese, the original house on haunted hill has something that is much darker beneath the surface that still disturbs me today. The jumpscare with the old hag, the girl who was killed in the attic by something unhuman, its sinister enough without over doing it.
*HAPPY NEW YEAR!* ... Leave your future suggestions below!
Also, if you're keen on my details about the 1959 mystery, check out Pushing Up Roses' video on it: ua-cam.com/video/Kmc6CT46JVo/v-deo.html
Great work 💞
Also The Lodge or starfish (2018) would be interesting to see.
I recently watched starfish and its a really beautiful and underrated film. The lodge would also be interesting because it's similar to hereditary yet very different in my opinion.
Ur awesome dude
Satanic panic
Keep up the good work, Ryan! I’d love to see a video on Doctor Sleep.
Pushing Up Roses collab when?
Great work as always Ryan! 👌🏾
My suggestion would have to be Hannibal the movies and/or Hannibal the TV series, you could compare the two, who you find plays the better Hannibal and such 😁 The TV series is one of my all time favourites 😊
The history of the horror genre is such a fascinating topic.
The remake gave me nightmares; mostly for all those scenes of the crazed asylum doctor. On another note, 28 Days Later gave me far worse nightmares, (one of those fuckers jumped through my window).
Oh! And Geoffrey Rush is a pretty good Vincent Price doppelgänger.
And the starting credits for HoHH 1999 looks like something from NIN’s “ Closer” video.
Ok I’m done.
The 99 remake traumatized me as a child BECAUSE of the scenes with the doctor and how he would twitch like that. I hated it as a kid! Still unnerves me a little to this day.
@@Lady_Chalk I was looking for this very comment
Vincent Price is my favorite actor ever. I'm loving this revival he's been having lately. It brings me so much joy! Thanks for the video :)
That remake is genuinely disturbing. The part where the guy in the camera room gets turned around and his head is just hollowed out, still gets me when I see it. And how there’s usually a constant barrage of whispers in the basement that the characters don’t react to at all. Makes me feel like we’re clued in to the true reality of the situation
Weirdly enough the haunted house remake and it’s sequel have a special place in my heart, it’s one of the first horror movies that I remember watching and it actually landed for me, I’m also a sucker for creepy hospitals/sanitariums tho
Glad you finally talked about these because the remake traumatized me when I was younger, and your calm and often humorous demeanor really help. Specifically, the camcorder scene with the ghost standing still in the hallway and the following closeup jumpscare was burned into my brain as a kid when I was stuck at my grandparents’ house and this happened to be on tv while I was all alone, and even though you showed the jump scare 3 times in this video I felt more mentally prepared to visit the scene as an adult and really confront it. It still terrifies me tbh, but I don’t feel as helpless as I did in my youth, rather I’m fascinated with it. It’s like when you finally see the monster for what it is, and you become less afraid of it, especially now that I am older. This video has kinda helped put some of that childhood trauma to rest.
The only thing I remember from this movie is the extreme smash cutting that gave the horror scenes a strobe-lighting effect. I hadn't seen that before and it really stuck out to me. I think they did a much better job of that in Thirteen Ghosts, but didn't really improve the story much.
Starting off the year with some William Castle. NICE!
I really enjoyed both versions of the movie. The Original with Vincent Price and it's can't be yet spooky charm. And I like the remake for it cast of characters, including Geoffrey Rush, and it's schlocky campy funny.
You should check out James Whale's 'The Old Dark House' 1932. It's a lot of fun, with great dialog, and impressive effects considering, well, low budget 1932.
Love that film so much!
Old horror is special
William Castle remade that with Hammer films, starring Tom Poston, and absolutely nothing like the original, though the Femmes are still violent. Goofy fun like a Peter Sellers movie.
@@alienmindwarp3455 I haven't seen that one, but I noticed from IMDB, that there isn't a Glady's character. Probably because they couldn't find an actress as sexy as Lilian Bond. :D
@@egggnome6266 I was really excited to see what WC had done with ODH, and was initially very disappointed, but gave it another chance years later, and it's pretty entertaining when you don't expect it to be anything like the 32 version.
Tbh the editing in this movie really freaked young me out 😅 the hallway scene made me scared of dark hallways for at least a year
Yay, you're back!! You were missed.
I love the original AND the remake. The remake is at the top of my favorite guilty pleasure movie.
Wait, nah, I'm not going to lie. It's just at the top of my favorites, I 'm not ashamed.
Any Movie: *has a creature of enigmatic or existential origin*
Ryan Hollinger: LOveCrAFtiaN!!!
"Just stand right there and scream until the monster walks out of the room"
I’ve always loved the hyper editing and fun camera angles, it’s just a style I’ve always found interesting and just eye catching. Although the films that use it aren’t always best but at least have interesting ideas I’d love to explore in a remake as a future wannabe filmmaker.
I always liked that the two survivors of the remake were the two that weren't actually descendants. It was a satisfying little touch.
This remains a very engaging film, I really enjoyed your perspective on it. It also reminded me of one of my absolute favorites from that era: _The Haunting_ from 1963. I really hope you will cover that some day, it not only has extremely skilled and unique cinematography the pacing is highly tense with superb acting. It also happens to be based on a must-read classic by Shirley Jackson that I've read at least five times over the decades.
My grandmother actually met Vincent price back in the 70s. We're from St Louis and he was doing a free play here in a outdoor theater and she was so starstruck she couldn't really say much but my mom was like can she have your autograph. My mom said he was really nice.
5:47 You have no idea the amount of PTSD you just gave me for resurrecting an old memory of when I watched this scene with my parents and started crying. Not one of my prouder moments
Always loved horror films that just go for "yeah there is nothing to it, the place is just wrong/evil" It's more unsettling to think of somewhere that is just evil for no reason other than it existing.
First "high-yevver" at 1:38.
House on Haunted Hill (the original) use to scare me so bad as a kid, you did a fantastic job Ryan!
I really liked that the promiscuous girl and the black guy survived the entire film in the remake. Growing up in the wasteland that was 90s/00s horror, that ending felt legitimately fresh at the time.
When I first saw the remake, I thought the switch from "it's all fake" to "it's supposed to be fake, but actually it's real" was very well done. When he turns that chair around and the guy's face is missing, it changed the whole movie for me. If I hadn't seen the original, I don't think it would have had the same impact. I went from mildly interested in seeing how they'd pull it off to downright invested in it. And the special effects weren't that bad. I've seen worse in better movies. The saturation chamber is the scene that disturbed me the most. Imagine being in that thing.
Hi Ryan, hope you have a great year. The 1999 version is one of the first horror movies I can remember watching. It really disturbed me, but I loved the Marilyn Manson + Silent Hill style it had (that now I see it comes from Jacob's Ladder), hell, I still really like this style, unfortunately it got sooo overused that no one can stand it any longer. I watched again a few years ago, and I still enjoyed it, although it was a bit disappointing for me. They made a sequel of the remake, but I can't remember a thing about it.
Best birthday present ever! Love this movie!! Thank you Ryan!!
The goofy Ghostviewer glasses of 13 Ghosts actually played a role in the movie - there is ONE apparition who is visible through either lens, which is a massive clue to what's going on. This is completely lost in newer versions without the ghostviewers (or just regular 3-D glasses, which also work since they have a red and blue lens to peek through by closing one eye).
Ooh this calls for a movie night with both versions 💀
Im surprised you didnt mention the 2007 sequel, what a ride that was.
Can't wait to see your take on the Hill House legacy! Would love to see you look into Hell House as well. "How tall were you, really?" will never fail to crack me up.
Oh look childhood trauma, to this day the 1999 movie still fucks me up mentally even if I know it’s not as scary
I have never seen my sister laugh so much as when she told me the character "twist" at the end of the remake. Good times
About the "acid trip editing", i see the homage to "Jacob's Ladder", but i remembered the Chris Cunningham videoclips for Aphex Twin, especially "Come to Daddy" and i got that vibe too
Horror Sunday is back y'all!
This is the 4th time you've covered a movie relatively soon after I shared it with friends on a movie night. It's a very odd but fun synchronicity. The Rorschach Entity legitimately scared me when I was younger despite the wonky CG, I would have these long and vivid Rose Red, House on Haunted Hill nightmares. This was still a very fun movie for me.
I remember on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movies where Tom Savini praises the reveal of the old woman when that girl knocks on the walls. Still effective jump scare to this day.
I was telling my son about the Tingler theatre gimmick a few weeks ago, and yesterday browsing for nothing in particular Etsy saw a Tingler someone made. I haven’t seen it since I was a child so really don’t remember if it was any good but I appreciate it popping up ever now and then. So I suppose I should request you cover it more in depth. I remember the idea of it scaring me as a child maybe more so than the actual film. It was a uncle who introduced me to it so must have had a memorable effect on him as well
Great retrospective! One aspect that hasn’t aged especially badly is the sound design. 1999’s HOHH used very creepy incidental sound effects including vocals with reverse-reverb.
(although I’m not talking about the choice of music used in the soundtrack, which has some very weird choices!)
I wish they’d remake 13 ghosts one more time
Yes House on Haunted Hill! I remember watching the remake when it came out on DVD and it's been one of my favourite horror movie ever since.
Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Vannacutt is amazing! Even if he has only a couple of lines, he was absolutely terrifying!
That opening scene where they cut the guy open without anesthetic gave me nightmares as a kid (aswell as the scene where Melissa dies).
As for the original, I mainly watched it because there was Vincent Price in it. He is the King of horror movies!
I hope one day you will make a video about the Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) with Vincent Price. I'm convinced the Saw movies were inspired by it (at least one scene near the end of the film).
god i love that dark castle editing it gives me very artistic vibes
ty for resurrecting my love for the horror shlock that i grew up with. dark castle made some of my favorite movies, thirteen ghosts and ghost ship just to name a couple. love your videos!
Title: House on Haunted Hill
My brain: Haunting of Hill House?
XD
it's a ripoff
❤️ Your taste
By gawd the 1999 version scared the crap outta me I was 11...
Still gets me
One of the best remakes to me 😊
Much love from the Republic brotha 🇨🇮
I love House on Haunted Hill, adore Vincent Price, and love the Noir story hiding under the ghosts! I am most terrified of the Psychiatrist/Psychologist using his expertise trying to drive a young woman mad to hide a crime! When I was little, eight years old and younger, I took my tape recorder everywhere I went. I had a bag of tapes, music, people reading books, and storytellers. My favorite tape was Vincent Price Tells Stories of Ghosts, Ghouls, and Goblins. It might as well have been called Vincent Price's Tales of Terror! It had long stories like The Smoker, and short invocations like To Become a Werewolf, and it was the most creative, vivid, gorgeous acting and storytelling I'd ever heard. I wore that tape OUT! I haven't been able to find a recording of what was on the tape, a few bits and pieces are on records but I'm hoping to find it all one day. When Vincent Price died I was in sixth grade and I bawled my eyes out. Love that man.
Sorry Ryan, I like both versions. But, I like the Haunting too, so what does that say? I guess I like bad horror films, lol
Wow. I vaguely remember watching the remake when I was younger, and I only really remembered that monster thing and the end scene. I tried to search it up multiple times but I couldn't get the name right, however I wasn't off by much. It was surreal as hell when I realized that this is the movie.
Thanks for doing a video on it, I kind of have a sense of closure now.
Oh man, it’s great to have u back... missed these videos
The 1999 version is the movie that got me into horror and made me want to make movies when i was younger, so I'll always come back to it
Once saw a revival screening of The Tingler at a local arthouse... They did their best to replicate the gimmicks, and it was great fun!
Speaking of Vincent Price, have you ever seen The Abominable Dr. Phibes? (Forgive me if I've asked before.) It's got so much going on with the art style and set design, some strange anachronistic elements depending on when you interpret the movie is taking place, and some kills that straight up seem like they inspired Saw. It's perhaps not a great film, but it's definitely strange and it was fun revisiting it recently.
I also saw the original House On Haunted Hill as a kid, and that scene with the skeleton coming out of the acid pit scared the crap out of me.
Thank you for talking about House on Haunted Hill! My friend and I watched it in university and loved it so much
The new house on haunted hill intro is still has one of the creepiest intro credit scenes I have ever seen
Great video. I've been waiting for you to cover the work of Stuart Gordon. Everyone loves Re-Animator but forgets about his later films like Castle Freak and Dagon, which are both minor classics in their own right.
Following your suggestion of recommending remakes; maybe consider the Blob and its remake. I guess it might be a bit campy, but I remember really enjoying the absurd "splatstick" style of the remake. Was not that patient so as to finish the original, but maybe that's where you could make us the abridged version. As always, great video!
I once had a costume fitting at the same time as Geoffrey Rush. He was dancing on a table in his underwear when I walked in. Interesting guy.
I honestly enjoy House on Haunted Hill's remake. I liked the backstory, as you said it's pretty intriguing. Then again, I love Thirteen Ghosts so no surprise I like House on Haunted Hill. Really happy you covered it.
The only thing I remember on the 1999 version is the Beetlejuice head spin when Rush's character is trapped in the isolation room, and it scared the shit out of me.
House on Haunted Hill is more or less a guilty pleasure to me. I know it's not a good movie per se, but Vincent Price's performance is absolutely irresistible. Even if you've seen the movie before and know what happens, something about him just keeps you hooked. If that's not the mark of a Hollywood legend, I don't know what is.
I'm curious to see your evaluation of the 2008 Swedish vampire flick Let the Right One In and its 2010 American adaption Let Me In. It's one of my favorite horror movies of all time and the handful of localized horror remakes that were legitimately good.
Since we touched on Vincent Price here, what do you think of the Masque of the Red Death? I remember having found it to be a fairly dreadful and anxious experience when I saw it when I was young.
I love Hill and the Tingler so much, and the Hill remake has such a charm to it compared to the other remakes of the time.
Yeah people always talk about how bad the cgi is in the remake, unaware that it isn’t cgi. I can’t remember the technique used but it’s basically images of naked women which you cannot unsee once you notice. It was made to resemble a Rorschach painting since it was set in an abandoned asylum. I love how weird it looks. It adds to the creepiness of the asylum. This movie will always have a special place in my heart and it was one of the first movies I watched on a dvd (the other being thir13en ghosts funnily enough).
Oh my god, I've had that scene from The Haunting stuck in my head for years. Now I finally know
One of my favorite lines from the 1999 house on haunted hill was from Taye diggs saying he was adopted
Cool video Ryan. Never knew 13 ghosts was a remake. And btw the ghosts from the black bible were TRULY horrifying! Also, Geoffrey Rush should play Vincent Price in a movie, his looks were great!
I remember watching this and 13 Ghosts so much as a kid, but I haven't see either in a few years. I think they're the reason I love haunted house films.
I would like to see you tackle the Corman film, "X", The Man With The X-ray Eyes.
I've never seen any reviewers do justice to the themes.
Thanks.
Please do a video on the original and remake of "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark". It was the movie that really scared me as a child. The one that still gives me the chills when I think of the phrase: "We have all the time in the world. All the time in the world."
I was about 8 or 9 years old and I kept renting this movie over and over again. It would a couple years later that I would know that Dr. Vannacutt is played by Jeffrey Combs!
My favorite flick of all time. I'm 67 years young so I have seen my fair share of flicks. Vincent price absolutely knocks it out of the park! The man is an absolute horror icon along with bela lugosi and long Chaney, jr. May he live thru the silver screen F O R E V E R.
I kinda want to argue that the CGI ghost at the end is not bad at all, and that its minimalist ethereal effects work very well.
As a a child, I would watch my vhs copy of the remake version over and over again. It was my favorite birthday gift.
Happy New Year...thanks for everything!
Maybe it's because I first watched it when I was 7 or 8 years old, but the imagery in the original house on haunted hill, the old lady especially, was extremely creepy to me. As a kid that shot where the camera pans and she's lit up by the candle was about as scary as the most intense scenes from Hereditary's climax. I saw it the way that that scene would probably be re-shot today
I've watched the RiffTrax for the original *so* many times over the years. It's burned into my brain at this point.
Those original William Castle Rock movie are wild
There is a board game, Betrayal at the House on Haunted Hill which is actually a pretty neat game to play with some mates
Honestly the idea of the story behind the original House of Haunted Hill sounds really engaging, if a modern movie were to use the idea but build upon it and give it the time it needs to play out, I think it would make for a fun movie.
Every time I see a Skeleton in a horror movie all I can I think about that scene from Scary Movie 2. "This is a Skeleton! This is Bones!" and can't take it seriously lol
Dude i loooooved the 1999 version! Watched it all the time as a kid!
The 1999 House on Haunted Hill was my very first horror movie, & it definitely stuck with me. I rewatched it this past Halloween, & it was like watching an entirely different movie. Like I still enjoyed it, but my younger brain was able to suspend much more disbelief 😅
have you considered doing an analysis on the first Sleepaway Camp? It's one of my favourites and I would love to see it covered!
Happy new year Ryan! Looking forward to another year of content from you!
The remake had great atmosphere. I still remember seeing it in theaters as a kid .
Holy shit you really unlocked memories when you mentioned Dylan Dog
Nice comparison, Ryan, thanks for the video. I watched the remake decades ago, and the only thing I remembered was that Jeffrey Combs was excellent as the doctor.
5:48 while i agree to the pose and face the old woman is making are campy, to this day the way she just glides out of the room still gives me chills. Maybe i've got some phobia from things moving unnaturally like that.