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Auction History Result

7x0584 HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL linen 1sh 1959 Vincent Price w/severed head & skeleton w/hanging girl!

Date Sold 12/22/2024
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More)

House on Haunted Hill (some stills identify the movie as "House of Haunted Hill" but a collector tells us that he saw the film on the opening weekend and it was titled "House on Haunted Hill"), the 1959 William Castle haunted house horror thriller ("First film with the amazing new wonder Emergo [specially installed for this engagement] The thrills fly right into the audience!"; "The 13 greatest shocks of all time! Consult your doctor! Bring your seat belts! See it with someone with warm hands!") starring Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Elisha Cook Jr., Carolyn Craig, Julie Mitchum, and Leona Anderson. Note that the "gimmick" for this movie (Emergo) described above consisted of an actual fake skeleton that was pulled out from above the screen on a wire and dragged across the audience when the skeleton on the movie comes out of its box, and then it is reeled back in across the audience, making two trips. This required special equipment, and apparently many theaters chose not to install it, because the pressbook has special ads for it only for theaters that have the Emergo equipment. We have read that some of the theaters that DID install the equipment had it uninstalled, once teen boys learned of it, because they would come to the showings with slingshots and damage the skeleton with rocks or BBs!
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Important Added Info: Note that last time we auctioned a "very good" example of this one-sheet, it sold for $2,800 (after that, we auctioned a "good" condition example for $1,750)!

Note that in recent years the price on posters from this title have escalated quite a bit. This seems to be likely related to the extreme gruesome nature of the art on many of the posters, with both a skeleton holding a girl hanging from a noose, and Vincent Price holding a severed head! This is much like the excesses in comic books in the early 1950s that caused a Senate investigation, and we wonder if there was a similar outcry against posters like these after this, because it would be many decades before one would see any posters similar to this (especially in the U.S.)!

Also note that this art is often attributed to Reynold Brown but we cannot be 100% certain. If anyone has definitive evidence as to who created the art, please e-mail us and we will post it here.

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had small paper loss at the crossfolds and some separation, small tears, and tiny paper loss on parts of the folds, with a few pinholes in the borders. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well!
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