Rating: 2/5
AKA: Vincent Price Chokes a Bitch or 2
Its a pity you didn't know that when you started your game of murder, that I was playing too.
When your wife is unfaithful and tries to poison you, ya only got once choice in this game: Throw an All Night Ghost Party At A Haunted House -
Basically a seemingly random group of folks are invited to stay the night at the only real haunted house in the WORLD! Should they make it all night, each person will receive $10,000.
The obvious best thing about this film is Vincent Price, he owns every scene he's in, and unfortunately he's in a pickle fam.
See his wife Annabelle is conspiring with one of the guests (Dr. Trent) to outright murder him by influencing another of guest (Nora Manning) to go so bat shit crazy from being scared, that she accidentally kills Mr. Loren aka Vincent Price.
But Vincent Price says fuck that noise, and devises his own counter-attack by dumping both the goofy ass doctor and his unrefined gold digging wife in a vat of acid. He also does the most alpha thing you can do in a situation like this, he tells the truth.
He admits to the other party goers that his wife and the good doctor tried to kill him, and that he's ready for justice to decide whether he is innocent or guilty. Price then just walks thru the remaining guests and back up the stairs to the main level of the house THE END.
One other note, Elisha Cook Jr. Stars as the drunken owner of the house spouting off random factoids about murders that have occurred in the residence. He even gets choked out by the Price Man himself at one point - I like to call Vincent Price choking people "The Price Check" it's was his finishing move in NJPW & WCW.
JR: By GAWD! The PRICE CHECK! PRICE CHECK!
FINAL WORD
MR.HELLBOX: This movie suffers from being a theater experience instead of being a complete film. The skeleton at the finale of the movie had replicas made to be used as a prop, flown inside the theater while the film was playing in certain markets back in the day.
Combine that with the beginning narration directed at involving the audience, this would have been something to experience when the film was fresh - In the end all we have is Vincent Price's acting as the only salvageable remnant. That ain't all bad though cause what we get is amazing. 3/5
Schlong Long: You wanna see a severed head? You wanna see me defy gravity with this rope? I wouldn't give these fucks 10 bucks to show up to my party. 1/5 For the film, and a perfect 5/5 for the Price Check.
Prince Pectorals: I would have shook that champagne bottle so hard, that the cork would have kill shotted that bitch JazzPunk Wedding Qake style. 1/5
