House on Haunted Hill (1959): "Rat Skeleton and The Vat of Acid"

Quick question: Should we start an experimental metal supergroup even though we can’t play any instruments? We came up with the best band name on a new Spooky Tuesday as we tackled House on Haunted Hill (1959), the Vincent Price classic that had a huge domino effect on horror as we know it. This is the film that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho — and it also, at one moment in the film, inspired all three of us to immediately and in unison announce that a scene was gay, gay, gay, gay, super gay, gay. Ghoulish and goofy, it’s hard to imagine how we might’ve viewed this film back in the day, but we gave it a shot by committing to only watching the black and white version.

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References:

https://dailydead.com/halloween-2019-how-house-on-haunted-hill-1959-paved-the-way-for-the-next-60-years-of-genre-storytelling/

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https://1428elm.com/2018/08/10/the-house-on-haunted-hill/2/

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https://screenrant.com/house-on-haunted-hill-2021-recast/

https://collider.com/iconic-vincent-price-horror-film-performances/

https://www.avclub.com/even-without-plastic-skeletons-floating-overhead-house-1798239323

https://youtu.be/AG2OvI9XTus