House on Haunted Hill (1958)
Director: William Castle
Actors: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig
Runtime: 75 min.
Frederick Loren (Vincent Price) invites a group of strangers to spend the night in a mansion on a hill where a number of murders have occurred. He offers $10,000 to anyone who can stay in the house for a whole night.
Trivia: Vincent Price did the creepy voiceover for the beginning of the Michael Jackson song, Thriller. Richard Long, who played test pilot Lance Schroeder, later gained fame as Jarrod Barkley in the western TV series The Big Valley. This movie's popularity even caught the attention of Alfred Hitchcock, influencing his decision to pursue the low-budget thriller Psycho.

