House on Haunted Hill

The House of Night Ghosts is an American mystery horror film made in 1959.

The extravagant millionaire Frederick Lauren rents a haunted house for one night for a reception there, allegedly organized by his wife Annabelle. Five invitees must receive $ 10,000 each for participating in the event (if they remain alive). One of them, the owner of the house, the drunkard Watson Pritchard, tells the sinister story of the house where seven people were killed. And all the murders were distinguished by a certain originality – for example, one of the former owners threw his wife into a bath with acid.

Gradually, sinister events begin to occur in the house, including the guests begin to see ghosts. Especially often with them there is a cute Burrow. She wants to leave the house, but the door is locked before midnight. As a bonus, Frederick gives the guests small coffins, inside which there are pistols. More – Lance finds a severed head, and then the guests find Annabelle Lauren hanged. The doctor says she's dead. Now the mood of those present is changing – they want to leave the building, but the steel door can not be broken.

The apparitions of the ghosts become more and more frequent, which drives Nora completely mad. She goes to the basement, where Frederick also goes. Meanwhile, Dr. Trent enters Annabelle's room, which, as it turns out, only faked suicide. Their plan is that Nora, driven to madness, will shoot Frederick. At first glance, this is exactly what is happening. However, when Annabelle goes down to the basement, she does not find the doctor there, and a skeleton rises from the pool of acid, which chases her. Annabelle falls into the sinister pool. Now comes the denouement: Frederick is alive, he figured out the plan of his wife and her lover and struck a preemptive strike.

The blind wife of the butler who works in the house is mistaken for a ghost several times. She suddenly appears out of the darkness in different parts of the basement and scares the guests.

In addition, the ghost pretends to be the wife of the organizer of the party: she suddenly appears outside the window in the room of one of the guests, located on the second floor of the house, and scares him.

The skeleton of a man who was previously killed in the house rises from an acid tank in the basement of the house. He chases the wife of the party organizer and pushes her into the acid.

Later it turns out that the skeleton with the help of a complex system of levers and ropes was controlled by the husband of the murdered woman.

Strange phenomena constantly occur in the house: doors open and close spontaneously, objects move, candles go out and light up, a chandelier falls, a blood-oozing stain moves along the ceilings.

At the end of the film, it turns out that all this is set up by people who want to cover up the murder.