He worked as a lecturer before breaking into acting and landed his first leading role in the 1938 comedy, “Service de Luxe.” Price went on to appear in more than 100 films, including “The Ten Commandments” and “Laura and the Song of Bernadettes,” and had roles on TV shows from “Batman to “The Muppet Show Mystery.” He earned two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (one for television, the other for film), and found success as a voice actor who narrated the opening for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller. Phibes” but his filmography goes much deeper than horror movies.Ī true renaissance man of the arts, Price earned a degree from Yale, where he studied English and art history. He gives each one a tiny coffin with a gun enclosed and then comes up with all sorts of devices. He offers them 10,000 each if they can spend the whole night there. Vincent Price rose to fame in “The Fly,” “ House on Haunted Hill,” “Witchfinder General,” “House of Wax,” and “The Abominable Dr. The sinister Price invites his enemies to spend the night in his decaying, old, creepy mansion with a violent past. However, IndieWire may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. The scene was cut because director William Malone felt the scene was a bit too humorous for the film and that it did not fit what was filmed at all).All products and services featured by IndieWire are independently selected by IndieWire editors. Vannicut!) we see her enter the house and then a horrifying scream follows. When she goes to check it out with real estate agent Dick (played by Jeffrey Combs (who is also Dr.
The shadow creeps into the cavern and reanimates the dead bodies causing this huge zombie attack. He loses his grip on Sara and she falls through the hole into a subterranean cavern beneath the house where the remains of Doctor Vannicut's victims lie. Eddie jumps onto a hanging light fixture, holding onto Sara as the floor beneath them explodes.
It would have been so much fun to be sitting with a jazzed-up audience watching a William Castle movie House on Haunted Hill begins with a a millionaire, Frederick Loren (Vincent Price), inviting a random group of people to an allegedly haunted house. In one version, the set is in the courtyard of a regular house where a woman is telling a man, who is suffering from a seemingly terminal illness, to embrace life in spite of his condition. House on Haunted Hill is one of those movies that I would have loved to have been there for in 1959. two different versions of the same scene involving the real Jennifer Jenzen (Debi Mazar), a haughty, foul mouthed, arrogant movie producer and her assistant Sara (Ali Larter), who are on the set of a cheap drama Jennifer is producing.Three of the most important scenes were returned for the DVD release.
running time constraints and what not) a great deal of footage was excised from this motion picture.