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William Castle doing what he did best: scaring the shit out of little kids in the audience! The much-publicized Emergo process--"more startling than 3-D!"-- was really nothing more than a luminous skeleton that floated over the viewers' heads on pulleys. Firsthand reports reveal why many theatres didn't bother: the excited patrons, knowing what was going to happen, were well armed with candy boxes to throw at the battered and defenseless bones.
Considerably boosted by Price's sinisterly hospitable performance, and quite enjoyable in its oldfashioned horror comedy way, Castle's follow-up to 'Macabre' (1958) has a plot which seems like one of his own promotional gimmicks.
An eccentric millionaire (Price) rents an old house -- the scene of seven murders -- so that his wife (Carol Ohmart) can throw a haunted house party. By offering $10,000 to anyone who will spend the night there, he attracts five guests who are assailed by skeletal apparitions, blood dripping from the ceiling, a witch, a suicide, a severed head, and a vat of acid in the cellar.
Plotting Price's death with her lover, a psychiatrist present because he is supposedly studying hysteria, Ohmart tries to ensure that he is shot by one of the pistols he had thoughtfully supplied the guests with (packaged in minature coffins).