House on Haunted Hill (1959): "Rat Skeleton and The Vat of Acid"

Published: April 12, 2022, 7 a.m.

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Quick question: Should we start an experimental metal supergroup even though we can\\u2019t play any instruments? We came up with the best band name on a new Spooky Tuesday as we tackled House on Haunted Hill (1959), the Vincent Price classic that had a huge domino effect on horror as we know it. This is the film that inspired Alfred Hitchcock\\u2019s Psycho \\u2014 and it also, at one moment in the film, inspired all three of us to immediately and in unison announce that a scene was gay, gay, gay, gay, super gay, gay. Ghoulish and goofy, it\\u2019s hard to imagine how we might\\u2019ve viewed this film back in the day, but we gave it a shot by committing to only watching the black and white version.

References:

https://dailydead.com/halloween-2019-how-house-on-haunted-hill-1959-paved-the-way-for-the-next-60-years-of-genre-storytelling/

https://www.filminquiry.com/horrific-inquiry-23/

https://1428elm.com/2018/08/10/the-house-on-haunted-hill/2/

https://thehorrortimes.com/2019/01/31/house-on-haunted-hill-1959-by-baron-craze/

https://screenrant.com/house-on-haunted-hill-2021-recast/

https://collider.com/iconic-vincent-price-horror-film-performances/

https://www.avclub.com/even-without-plastic-skeletons-floating-overhead-house-1798239323

https://youtu.be/AG2OvI9XTus

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