Review: House On Haunted Hill (1959)

Director: William Castle
Starring: Vincent Price, Carolyn Craig, Richard Long, Carol Ohmart

Plot: An eccentric millionair and his wife invite five strangers to spend a night in the house on haunted hill. Survivors will get 10,000 dollars.

Even though this is an old horror movie, it really startled me at one point. The movie is well filmed and the special effects work. Running only 75 minutes, the plot is dense but there is still enough time for character development.

One thing that I find funny in most of the old horror films: when there is a thunderstorm, the flash and the rumble always come at the same time. If this happened in the real life (which is rare) it would mean that the lightnings are hitting near you all the time.

Excellent movie. Classic. Watch it!!

Stars: ****

The Evil Dead Drinking Game

Me and my friend played it tonight. She drank cider and I drank beer. We watched the first Evil Dead movie and got almost through the second one...

The rules are very simple. You take a sip of alcohol when any of the following happens:

* Ash gets hurt
* Ted Raimi appears as a shemp (watch the commentaries and you'll know)
* the camera moves from the evil entity's point of view
* Ash says somethin korny (all the one-liners count, especially "workshed")
* The Necrocomicon is mentioned
* the mystical words are cited
* a character gets posessed
* Ash talks to the evil dead

Honestly, beer is enough when playing this drinking game. Even at the very beginning of the first movie you have to drink quite a lot.

I think I better get some sleep now so I can watch the end of the second movie and Army Of Darkness. I just hope my friend is up to it. No drinking game this time! (but we're going to do a Romero drinking game some day)

And guess how many misspelled words I corrected while writing this.