A number 1 version, an Allied Artists Picture from 1959, directed by William Castle and starred Vincent Price as eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren. He & his Quaternary married woman, Annabelle, use invited Fivesome humans to the home for the "Haunted House" person. Whoever stays in the home for 1 nighttime may earn myriad dollars. When a nighttime progresses, all a guests come trapped within the home by using ghosts, manslayer, & more terrors.

A film utilized a gimmick "Emergo" in the period of its original theatrical release: William Castle placed an elaborate pulley formulas inside every theater showing a film; leaving a skeleton to become flown all over a audience at the appropriate instance. (source: "Tale of Two Houses" docudrama, House on Haunted Hill (1999) DVD)

Thanks to Castle's gimmicky theatrical start, the film became a immense profits. Alfred Hitchcock took notice of the low-budget film's performance at a pack professional, & placed dead set produce his have online-budget horror film, which became a critically-acclaimed hit Psycho (Ironically, Castle himself was a Hitchcock fan, & tried to imitate his function).

A Home in Haunted Hill has since fallen into a public domain. Warner Brothers, who distributed the remaking, issued a "bare-bones" DVD release of a original whilst the remaking come out, & 20th Century Fox later distributed a colorized Special Edition of the film.

For the 1999 remake see: House on Haunted Hill