Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But the house is no ordinary house. This house has a reputation for murder. Frederick offers them each a gun for protection. They all arrived in a hearse and will either leave in it $10,000 richer or leave in it dead!
A stale spook concoction from the William Castle-Robb White production team.
– Howard Thompson,
New York Times,
25 Mar 2006
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
fresh:
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.