'The House on Haunted Hill' is having a special interactive screening in June.
The king of old-school B-horror is coming back to life, at least in spirit, for two nights only at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago. Castle's horror classic House on Haunted Hill will be screened at the venue on June 7 and 8, but there's a twist. To recapture the director's penchant for showmanship, the theater will be outfitted with interactive gimmicks in the same vein as those originally employed by Castle to get the audience to participate in the theatergoing experience.
Although House on Haunted Hill is a classic and Castle is a prolific filmmaker, he's better known for how he employed gimmicks in theaters. House on Haunted Hill screening became especially raucous thanks to "Emergo," a gimmick involving a plastic skeleton with glowing red eyes that Castle would fly through the theater with a pulley system during the moment a skeleton rises from a vat of acid on-screen.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Castle had a whole bag of tricks when it came to involving audiences, from insurance policies and nurses on set to make sure viewers are taken care of should they die of fright to vibrating chairs to simulate being shocked. A number of his films have been remade like 13 Ghosts with Tony Shalhoub and House on Haunted Hill with Geoffrey Rush, but both lack the theatrics that Castle brought to his work.
Music Box Theatre's House on Haunted Hill screenings will take place at 7 p.m. on June 7 and 9:30 p.m. on June 8. Check out the trailer for the horror classic below.
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