This delightfully silly movie populated by likeable actors, greatly filmed and scored, can be viewed either as the horrors of ghostly intrigue, or as the horrors of architecture, of structures built for the glory of the builder, rather than the comfort of the residents. Ghosts seem to prefer expensive mansions to mobile homes. Having been freed of life's constraints, they want to live it up for a change, and they don't seem to like sharing big houses with mere mortals! "The Haunting" scared me as a youngster. This one amused me even then. One thing seems certain: you can't have a horror film without a big, unwieldy house. Architecture shapes our lives to an extent that can only be qualified as horrifying. I guess one could say that architecture is the mother of history. Architects should see this one. The true horror master may be Frank Lloyd Wright.
Review of House on Haunted Hill
