House on Haunted Hill
Movie • 1959 • Horror
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Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But the house is no ordinary house. This house has a reputation for murder. Frederick offers them each a gun for protection. They all arrived in a hearse and will either leave in it $10,000 richer or leave in it dead!
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Is there smoke or haze?
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Mongoose_City
the opening sequences of the house are surrounded by a foggy forest, and a few moments where the outside of the house is shown are hazy
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Is there live gunfire?
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there are 2 or 3 gunshots throughout the film, one fires a blank but mistakes it for a shot, the other only shoots a vase, so nobody is killed or injured by gunfire
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Is there flying onstage?
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Mongoose_City
no, but (SPOILER)
a character is put in a hanging harness to simulate being hung, and a ghostly version of the same character is shown floating outside another characters window to frighten her
a character is put in a hanging harness to simulate being hung, and a ghostly version of the same character is shown floating outside another characters window to frighten her
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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There is a shocking scene where a woman appears to have been hanged, but it's not gory and she turns out to have faked it.
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EvilToTheCore13
A husband and wife are both plotting to kill each other (she married him with the goal of killing him for his money, he is onto her and plotting her death.) They have a lot of verbal arguments and at one point he grabs her hair. It ends with her trying to kill him and him killing her instead. She also claims he murdered his previous wives but this is not confirmed. There is no one clear victim in this relationship but it is certainly not healthy.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Two characters spend majority of the movie trying to drive a girl insane by faking ghostly activity.
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It's....complicated. The film centres around a husband and wife who are both trying to kill each other, there's a lot of back and forth scheming and murder attempts between them, but not a straightforward abused/abuser dynamic.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Mongoose_City
one of the characters, Watson Pritchard, is a chronic alcoholic, which is touched on in the plot, and he is shown to drink alcohol at multiple points in the movie, but it isn't a significant part to the plot besides that others think he's crazy
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Is there a dead animal?
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One of the characters finds an already dead rat in a rat trap and uses it to demonstrate a pool of acid. All that remains of the rat are its bones.
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Are there spiders?
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No, just cobwebs.
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she is not slapped, but her husband grips her shoulders and holds her hair in a way that might be taken similarly
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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A short part of a scene features a woman getting her mouth covered by a male's hand.
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Is someone restrained?
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A man grabs a woman's hair forcefully, and another woman is held by the arms/shoulders in place.
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Bodily Harm
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Is there body horror?
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obviously plastic skeleton shown, and a decapitated head that looks rather fake now but may still be a shock
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Is there decapitation?
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Multiple severed heads are shown.
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Is there a hanging?
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Yes and it's quite shocking but it turns out to be fake.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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albinopigeon
A character is knocked unconscious with a blow to the head, and another briefly faints/swoons.
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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EvilToTheCore13
An old woman (minor character) is briefly mentioned to be blind but her actor was not.
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Are there ghosts?
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FatalDeviation
There are scenes which feature ghosts.but **SPOILER** it is revealed that they were fake.
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Are there mannequins?
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Mongoose_City
no, but in a conversation about the fake hanging, one of the characters suggests that they pretend the body was a mannequin to stage it as a "party gag". no mannequins are shown though. also a plastic skeleton but im not sure if that counts
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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pit of acid
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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No, but one of the characters is a doctor of medicine who specialises in women's mental health - which may upset someone with history in this field.
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A character appears to have committed suicide by hanging herself, but it is revealed to have been staged.
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There is a "suicide" in the film, as one of the characters is found hanging by her neck by noose. We see this image at least twice.
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Is there misophonia?
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Mongoose_City
screaming throughout the movie, and a choking/gargling noise near the end
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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one of the characters who's brother died in the house is paranoid about the ghosts and spirits attacking the others, but its not clear if he has PTSD from the event or not
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Not in the autistic sense, no. A woman panics, screams, cries, etc and is dismissed by a deliberately unsympathetic character as "hysterical", though.
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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There are flashes of lightning at times
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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This film has a surprising amount of jumpscares for a film made in the 50s.
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Is there screaming?
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LOTS of screaming.
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Are there underwater scenes?
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Paranoia
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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albinopigeon
The movie begins and ends with a character addressing the audience.
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Pregnancy
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Discussion of "hysteria".
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Is there a large age gap?
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Going by the ages of their actors, Frederick and Annabelle Loren are 48 and 32. It is mentioned that his previous wives were in their 20s though it is not clear how old he was at that time.
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Religious
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Mongoose_City
it really depends on who youre rooting for
(SPOILERS)
the end for Annabelle and the doctor isnt happy, but the others reach the end alive and well
(SPOILERS)
the end for Annabelle and the doctor isnt happy, but the others reach the end alive and well
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Violence
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There is a particularly graphic scene of a severed head in a box. It is not very realistic but is quite effective and gross looking.
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Does someone drown?
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A woman falls into a pit of acid. So it's kind of like drowning.
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Is there gun violence?
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albinopigeon
A character is shot, but the bullet turns out to be a blank.
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