A hilariously over-the-top and camp horror film. Mr Loren (
Vincent Price) invites a mixture of people to a party at a notorious haunted house with his wife Annabelle (
Carol Ohmart). Loren challenges the guests to stay a night in return for money. Almost immediately very strange things start to happen, a chandelier nearly falls on Nora (
Caroline Craig), unfortunately she survives and is able to scream her tonsils off for most of the rest of the film. Dr Trent (
Alan Marshal) says it is just hysteria and not ghosts which Nora keeps seeing...
Then Annabelle is found hung, but was it suicide or murder? Loren delights in showing his guests a pit of acid which is in the cellar. It isn't much of a party, not really swinging... well apart from Annabelle. Though she later appears outside Nora's window causing some more screams. There is something more going on than bumps in the night...
Once we get the twist then the film transforms from a rather silly though entertaining camp horror to something a bit more clever.
