February 20, 2010

From William Castle's "House on Haunted Hill" (1958), one of two movies on TV after school, (first grade) that blew me away. The first grabber was the worried countenance and soppy babble of Elisha Cook, Jr., thence forever seared into my mind...



One of the film's many creepy moment's, below, the little head in the suitcase, which for me was relocated in my mind to the bathroom cabinet...



You don't see the head for long---there's the overused plot gimmick of having other/s called in, when of course it is gone. A lame move even to a six year old kid.