Bat, The / House On Haunted Hill [DVD Double Feature]

Description

The Bat: The fourth film version of the Mary Roberts Rinehart/Avery Hopwood stage chestnut. Agnes Moorehead plays mystery novelist Cornelia Van Gorder, whose remote mansion is the scene for all sorts of diabolical goings-on. The “maguffin” is a million dollars worth of securities, hidden away somewhere in the huge and foreboding estate. Vincent Price co-stars.
1959 – USA – 80 min – B&W

House on Haunted Hill: A perennial favorite of the “Shock Theatre” TV circuit. Directed by the legendary William Castle, House on Haunted Hill stars Vincent Price as a sinister gent (you’re surprised?) who owns a sinister mansion on a sinister hill. He offers several of his enemies $10,000 each?if they agree to spend the night in the crumbling old mansion.
1958 – USA – 75 min – B&W

Both films are presented letterboxed (non-anamorphic widescreen)