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It's been a disappointing day but I've now got some whisky and got the projector fired up for the first time in months for House on Haunted Hill (1959) with Vincent Price.
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The film starts with an early example of a jump-scare as a woman screams out of the darkness before any images come on screen. Think how effective that must have been to an audience in the '50s.
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In this film, Vincent Price delivers the line "It's close to midnight.": a clear reference to Michael Jackson's Thriller and proof positive that Vincent Price became unstuck in time during his life.
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The plot of this film involves five strangers being invited to a spooky mansion house to stay the night and then being picked off one by one and tbh it's making me want to watch Clue (1985) again. Now there's a film.
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I'm watching this with an eye to the monumental horror image and cosmic fear in horror films as articulated by @theseantcollins in this thread and the accompanying essay. It contains some good examples of the monumental horror image. @theseantcollins/1006931565937610754?s=19