Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.
There is some good humor in the dialog which not only pays off well against the ghostly elements, but provides a release for laughter so it does not explode in the suspense sequences.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
If one had to pick the best of the campy horror films that made [Castle's] reputation, this 1958 feature would probably be it.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
24 Sep 2007
rotten:
A stale spook concoction from the William Castle-Robb White production team.