WARNING: SPOILERS BE HERE
I figured that I'd warn about the spoilers, even though this flick is 55 years old. So if any of you younger folks out there are like me and still hadn't watched it even though it is on instant Netflix, just go watch it before you read this blog. This horror classic is totally worth it and it's only 75 minutes long.
This flick is just a good ol' fashioned murder mystery, with a whole bunch of ghostly activity thrown in for good measure. There's a motley crew of folks that go up to a haunted house for a dinner party and the chance to go home with $10,000 if they can stay in the house the whole night. It's funny how each character plays a specific part in the story, with a few of them just there for effect or to throw the viewer off the trail. The drunk and the columnist are basically just there as fluff, especially ol' drunky-Magee, stirring up a whole bunch of trouble about ghosts. I'd like to see a movie about his first night in the house.
This movie gets everything done right. It's quick and fun, it has a bunch of supernatural scares, and then it wraps everything up just fine. Sure the whole murder plot doesn't quite make total sense, but Vincent Price comes out on top with the ol' puppet skeleton gag, so it's fine.
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