WEBVTT 00:00:22.469 --> 00:00:27.712 ( woman screaming ) 00:00:28.623 --> 00:00:32.319 ( pained moaning ) 00:00:32.557 --> 00:00:37.356 ( woman screaming ) 00:00:37.392 --> 00:00:43.288 ( man laughing maniacally over screams ) 00:00:43.753 --> 00:00:48.038 ( creaking door ) 00:00:48.038 --> 00:00:56.458 ( rattling chains and heavy foot steps ) 00:00:57.382 --> 00:01:00.924 The ghosts are moving tonight - restless, hungry. 00:01:02.468 --> 00:01:04.589 May I introduce myself? 00:01:04.906 --> 00:01:06.609 I'm Watson Pritchard. 00:01:07.747 --> 00:01:11.509 In just a minute I'll show you the only really haunted house in the world. 00:01:13.218 --> 00:01:15.243 Since it was built a century ago, 00:01:15.258 --> 00:01:17.067 seven people, including my brother, NOTE Paragraph 00:01:17.087 --> 00:01:18.987 have been murdered in it. 00:01:19.842 --> 00:01:22.802 Since then, I've owned the house. 00:01:24.351 --> 00:01:26.211 I've only spent one night there. 00:01:26.245 --> 00:01:28.335 And when they found me in the morning I... 00:01:28.488 --> 00:01:30.288 I was almost dead! 00:01:30.987 --> 00:01:35.185 ( pained moaning ) 00:01:35.603 --> 00:01:38.433 ♪ ( jarring musical note, swelling ) ♪ 00:01:39.493 --> 00:01:41.134 I'm Frederick Loren. 00:01:41.714 --> 00:01:44.505 And I've rented the house on Haunted Hill tonight 00:01:44.601 --> 00:01:46.274 so that my wife can give a party. 00:01:46.592 --> 00:01:49.642 A haunted house party. (chuckles) 00:01:49.945 --> 00:01:52.725 She's so amusing. 00:01:53.136 --> 00:01:55.634 There will be food and drink and... ghosts. 00:01:56.717 --> 00:01:58.109 And perhaps even a few murders. 00:01:59.274 --> 00:02:00.894 You're all invited. 00:02:01.094 --> 00:02:04.092 If any of you will spend the next twelve hours in this house, 00:02:04.252 --> 00:02:06.855 I'll give you each ten thousand dollars - 00:02:06.855 --> 00:02:09.948 - or your next of kin, in case you don't survive. 00:02:10.358 --> 00:02:12.797 Ah, but here come our other guests. 00:02:16.495 --> 00:02:22.115 (Frederick) It was my wife's idea to have our guests come in funeral cars. 00:02:22.810 --> 00:02:24.962 She's so amusing. 00:02:24.962 --> 00:02:27.532 Her sense of humor is, shall we say, original. 00:02:28.070 --> 00:02:29.993 I dreamed up the hearse. 00:02:29.993 --> 00:02:31.987 It's empty now, but - 00:02:32.210 --> 00:02:34.750 - after a night in the house on Haunted Hill - 00:02:34.824 --> 00:02:36.664 - who knows? 00:02:37.315 --> 00:02:40.088 This is Lance Schroeder, a test pilot. 00:02:40.088 --> 00:02:42.424 So, no doubt a brave man. 00:02:42.424 --> 00:02:45.796 But don't you think you can be much braver if you're paid for it? 00:02:45.822 --> 00:02:47.511 And I happen to know that Lance 00:02:47.511 --> 00:02:49.903 needs the ten thousand I'll give him, 00:02:49.903 --> 00:02:52.349 if he's brave enough to stay all night. 00:02:52.470 --> 00:02:54.150 This is Ruth Bridgers. 00:02:54.430 --> 00:02:57.170 You've no doubt read her column in the newspapers. 00:02:57.289 --> 00:02:59.530 She says her reason for coming to the party 00:02:59.530 --> 00:03:02.340 is to write a feature article on ghosts. 00:03:02.448 --> 00:03:06.288 She's also desperate for money. Gambles. 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.270 You've already met Watson Pritchard, 00:03:10.341 --> 00:03:12.681 a man living in mortal fear of a house, 00:03:12.737 --> 00:03:15.807 and yet he's risking his life to spend another night here. 00:03:15.913 --> 00:03:17.373 I wonder why. 00:03:17.485 --> 00:03:19.535 He says "for money". 00:03:21.108 --> 00:03:24.468 This is Dr. David Trent, a psychiatrist. 00:03:25.458 --> 00:03:28.258 He claims that my ghosts will help his work on hysteria. 00:03:28.572 --> 00:03:31.962 But don't you see a little touch of greed there 00:03:32.376 --> 00:03:34.636 around the mouth and eyes? 00:03:36.952 --> 00:03:38.672 This is Nora Manning. 00:03:38.692 --> 00:03:39.462 I picked her 00:03:39.472 --> 00:03:41.480 from the thousands of people who work for me 00:03:41.500 --> 00:03:44.490 because she needed the ten thousand more than most. 00:03:44.741 --> 00:03:46.711 Supports her whole family. 00:03:46.886 --> 00:03:49.296 Isn't she pretty? 00:03:52.281 --> 00:03:54.251 The party's starting now. 00:03:54.504 --> 00:03:58.504 And you have until midnight to find The House on Haunted Hill. 00:03:58.811 --> 00:04:02.811 ♪ ( title music plays ) ♪ 00:06:41.770 --> 00:06:44.010 Lance: Well, where is everybody? 00:06:44.304 --> 00:06:46.764 Nora: It isn't a very warm welcome, is it? 00:06:47.141 --> 00:06:50.691 Watson: Only the ghosts in this house are glad we're here. 00:06:51.105 --> 00:06:54.105 Ruth: Are we all strangers to each other? 00:06:54.567 --> 00:06:56.427 Don't you two know each other? 00:06:56.479 --> 00:06:58.769 Lance: I'm afraid I don't even know your name. 00:06:58.781 --> 00:07:00.781 - I'm Nora Manning. - Lance Schroeder. 00:07:01.219 --> 00:07:03.579 Ruth: Is Fredrick Loren a friend of yours? 00:07:03.634 --> 00:07:06.004 Lance: I've heard of him, but I've never met him. 00:07:06.011 --> 00:07:08.561 Nora: I work for one of his companies, but I've never seen him. 00:07:08.561 --> 00:07:11.607 Ruth: I've never met the man either. Just a phone call. 00:07:11.607 --> 00:07:13.017 Do you know him? 00:07:13.052 --> 00:07:14.132 David: No. 00:07:14.255 --> 00:07:17.135 (Ruth) Then you're the only one of us who does. 00:07:17.184 --> 00:07:18.919 Watson: I don't know him. 00:07:18.919 --> 00:07:21.649 All the details about running the house were done by mail. 00:07:21.675 --> 00:07:24.735 - David: He's quite wealthy, isn't he? - Ruth: Millions. 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:28.059 - David: And five wives, I believe. - Ruth: Four, I think so far. 00:07:28.094 --> 00:07:32.094 David: A fifty thousand dollar party for only five people is a little steep. 00:07:32.135 --> 00:07:34.065 (David) Even for a millionaire. 00:07:36.616 --> 00:07:38.916 Lance: Well, if I were going to haunt anybody, 00:07:38.936 --> 00:07:41.216 this would certainly be the house I'd do it in. 00:07:41.238 --> 00:07:42.918 ( door creaks and slams shut ) 00:07:42.964 --> 00:07:45.104 (chandelier tinkles) 00:07:45.987 --> 00:07:47.977 Nora: Who closed the door? 00:07:48.046 --> 00:07:51.646 ♪ ( ominous music plays ) ♪ 00:07:56.047 --> 00:07:58.637 Lance: This thing's made of solid steel. 00:08:01.097 --> 00:08:03.467 ( chandelier crashes ) 00:08:03.485 --> 00:08:06.505 ♪ ( ominous music plays ) ♪ 00:08:28.392 --> 00:08:30.352 Fredrick: Annabelle? 00:08:30.750 --> 00:08:33.760 Our guests are here and unfortunately still alive. 00:08:33.806 --> 00:08:35.306 Is your face on yet? 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:42.219 Annabelle: Dust and dirt everywhere. And the water barely trickles. 00:08:42.532 --> 00:08:44.732 Couldn't you've had the place cleaned? 00:08:44.747 --> 00:08:47.417 Fredrick: Atmosphere, darling. You know how ghosts are. 00:08:47.430 --> 00:08:49.320 They never tidy up. 00:08:49.333 --> 00:08:52.403 That's a very fetching outfit, but hardly suitable for a party. 00:08:52.421 --> 00:08:54.511 Annabelle: I'm not going to the party. 00:08:54.594 --> 00:08:57.884 Fredrick: This 'spend the night ghost party' was your idea. Remember? 00:08:57.884 --> 00:09:00.324 Since it's going to cost me fifty thousand dollars, 00:09:00.329 --> 00:09:01.899 I want you to have fun! 00:09:01.899 --> 00:09:03.699 Annabelle: The party was my idea, 00:09:03.770 --> 00:09:05.710 until you invited all the guests. 00:09:05.830 --> 00:09:08.220 Why all the strangers? Why none of our friends? 00:09:08.581 --> 00:09:10.981 Fredrick: Friends? Do we have any friends? 00:09:11.329 --> 00:09:14.289 Annabelle: No. Your jealousy took care of that. 00:09:14.460 --> 00:09:17.270 Fredrick: I had a reason for inviting each guest. 00:09:17.285 --> 00:09:19.825 I wanted kind of a cross section. 00:09:19.838 --> 00:09:22.518 From psychiatrist to typist. 00:09:22.798 --> 00:09:25.108 And from drunk to jet pilot. 00:09:25.346 --> 00:09:28.016 They share one thing. They all need money. 00:09:28.939 --> 00:09:32.439 Now, let's see if they're brave enough to earn it. 00:09:32.756 --> 00:09:34.986 Annabelle: And you call this a party? 00:09:35.009 --> 00:09:36.739 Fredrick: Could be. 00:09:40.025 --> 00:09:42.935 Annabelle: Why do you always do that? It spoils the champagne. 00:09:43.420 --> 00:09:47.420 Fredrick: It might explode. - (Annabelle) It never does. 00:09:47.989 --> 00:09:49.959 Fredrick: Will you guarantee that? 00:09:50.233 --> 00:09:52.273 Annabelle: That isn't funny, Fredrick. 00:09:52.534 --> 00:09:56.534 Fredrick: It'd make a good headline. "Playboy kills wife with champagne cork". 00:09:57.973 --> 00:10:00.913 - Will you join me? - Annabelle: No, thank you. 00:10:02.495 --> 00:10:04.795 Fredrick: Just a sip might improve your humor. 00:10:04.830 --> 00:10:07.710 Annabelle: My humor is fine, thanks. 00:10:07.851 --> 00:10:10.141 And I haven't poisoned it. 00:10:10.755 --> 00:10:13.225 Fredrick: It's always good to know that. 00:10:17.373 --> 00:10:20.743 Fredrick: Have some. You'll enjoy the party more. 00:10:21.815 --> 00:10:22.615 Go on. 00:10:29.625 --> 00:10:31.765 Annabelle: Your trust is so touching. 00:10:31.766 --> 00:10:33.906 And I'm not going to the party. 00:10:34.161 --> 00:10:36.831 Fredrick: Of all my wives, you're the least agreeable. 00:10:36.841 --> 00:10:38.721 Annabelle: But, still alive. 00:10:39.092 --> 00:10:43.092 Fredrick: Would you go away, for a million dollars, tax-free? 00:10:44.286 --> 00:10:45.776 You want it all, don't you? 00:10:45.846 --> 00:10:47.706 Annabelle: I deserve it all. 00:10:48.335 --> 00:10:50.565 Your jealousy isn't tax-free. 00:10:50.578 --> 00:10:53.388 And your possessiveness is maddening. 00:10:53.966 --> 00:10:57.146 Fredrick: If ever a man had grounds for divorce... 00:10:57.555 --> 00:11:00.735 - Annabelle: But can't prove them. - Fredrick: The time will come. 00:11:00.763 --> 00:11:03.093 Fredrick: You'll slip up one of these days. 00:11:03.324 --> 00:11:06.424 - Annabelle: You think so? - Fredrick: If I live long enough. 00:11:07.002 --> 00:11:10.332 Fredrick: Do you remember the fun we had when you poisoned me? 00:11:11.455 --> 00:11:13.825 Annabelle: Something you ate, the doctor said. 00:11:13.964 --> 00:11:16.451 Fredrick: Yes. Arsenic on the rocks. 00:11:17.511 --> 00:11:18.741 Annabelle, 00:11:19.371 --> 00:11:23.211 you'd do it again if you thought you could get away with it, wouldn't you? 00:11:23.310 --> 00:11:25.850 Annabelle: Darling, what makes you think that? 00:11:26.593 --> 00:11:28.493 Fredrick: Something about you. 00:11:31.057 --> 00:11:35.057 I hear that hanging is very uncomfortable, in case you get any more ideas. 00:11:37.069 --> 00:11:40.309 (Fredrick) Don't let the ghosts and the ghouls disturb you, darling. 00:11:40.344 --> 00:11:43.674 Annabelle: Darling, the only ghoul in the house is you. 00:11:44.481 --> 00:11:48.011 Fredrick: Don't sit up all night, thinking of ways to get rid of me. 00:11:48.420 --> 00:11:49.870 It makes wrinkles. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Watson: This is what she used on my brother and her sister. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Hacked 'em to pieces. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 We found parts of the bodies all over the house. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 In places you wouldn't think. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A funny thing is, the heads have never been found. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Hands and feet and things like that. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But no heads. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 David: The wife, probably in a rage, threatened her husband with the knife 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and then, carried away by hysteria, took a swing at him, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and simply went on from there. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Lance: She certainly went on. How many people did she kill, Mr. Pritchard? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Watson: Only two. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Her husband and her sister. No one else was here. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Lance: So there are two loose heads just floating around here somewhere? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Watson: You can hear them at night. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 They whisper to each other. And then cry. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ( Lance laughs ) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Ruth: Since our host isn't here, would anyone care to mix me a drink? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 David: Certainly. What will you have? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 ( door opens ) 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Fredrick: Good evening. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I'm your host, Fredrick Loren. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Since we're all strangers to each other, let's get acquainted with a drink. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Watson: Mr. Loren, I advise you to call this party off now. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The ghosts are already moving and that's a bad sign. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Fredrick: Let me apologize for my wife. She'll join us later. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - What will you have? - Ruth: Scotch and. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - Doctor? - David: I'll have the same. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Fredrick: Now, before the party begins, let's go over the details. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The caretakers will leave at midnight, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 locking us in here, until they come back in the morning. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Once the door is locked, there's no way out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 The windows have bars that a jail would be proud of. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And the only door to the outside locks like a vault. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's no electricity. No phone. No one within miles. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So, no way to call for help. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Watson: Like a coffin. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Fredrick: So, if any of you decide to not stay for the party, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 you must let me know before midnight. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Of course, if you leave, I shan't be able to pay you anything. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 David: I'm interested in your reasons for this "party". 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Aside from present company. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Fredrick: Ghosts, Doctor! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 I think everyone wonders what they would do 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Fredrick) if they saw a ghost. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Fredrick: And now my wife has given us the opportunity to find out. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 David: Hm. Amusing. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 David: Ghosts, etcetera, being only creations of hysteria, 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 your party should be a success! 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Fredrick: Pritchard here promises us genuine ghosts. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Watson: Seven, now. Maybe more before morning. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Fredrick: That's cheerful. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Watson: Four men have been murdered in this house. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And three women. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 David: You've planned your party very well, Mr. Loren. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Four of us are men. Three are women. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 A ghost for everybody. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Fredrick: Pritchard, why don't you take us on a tour through the house? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Let's see what happens? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Watson: See that stain? Blood. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Watson: A young girl was killed here. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 And whatever got her, wasn't human. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 - Don't stand there! - Ruth: What do you mean? Where? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Watson: It's too late. They've marked you. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 David: Ridiculous. The roof probably leaks. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Ruth: That must be what it is. Who'd want to haunt me? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Fredrick: I'd say any self-respecting male ghost. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Watson: I hope it doesn't come back. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 David: Well, Mr. Pritchard, you're the life of the party. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Fredrick: He hasn't even started yet. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Wasn't there a man who threw his wife into a wine vat or something? 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Watson: That was in the cellar. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 There's been a murder almost every place in this house. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Watson: All this belonged to a Mr. Norton, who didn't die here. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 He was electrocuted later. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 Watson: Mr. Norton did a good deal of experimenting with wines. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 But his wife didn't think it was any good. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 So he filled a vat with acid and threw her in. 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 (Watson) She was supposed to stay down,