Trent, and having apparently tricked Nora into killing Loren. Annabelle emerges, having faked her death with the help of Dr. Trent, another guest, tries to get rid of the body by pushing it into acid, but the lights go out, and when they come back on, both of the men are gone. After being driven into a fit of hysteria by the ghosts haunting her, Nora shoots Mr. Loren's wife tries to warn the guests that her husband is psychotic, causing them to be very suspicious of him, especially Nora Manning, who becomes convinced that he's trying to kill her when she keeps seeing mysterious ghouls, including the ghost of Annabelle, who had hanged herself after being forced to attend the party. He explains the rules of the party and gives each of the guests a.
Anyone who stays in the house for the entire night, given that they are still alive, will each receive $10,000. Fredrick Loren enters who introduces himself and claims that he invited them to spend one night the house, with the stipulation that the power will be out and all doors will be locked at midnight, allowing no accessible escape. He claims that the heads can be heard at night whispering to each other. Pritchard himself spent a night in the house and was found almost dead the next morning. Parts of the bodies were found all over the house, but the heads have never been found. During the gathering in the parlor, Watson Pritchard claims that seven people, three women and four men, including Watson Pritchard's brother, have been murdered in the house. Of course, some of them had underlying motives, too. Add these five to Frederick and Annabelle Loren, and there are seven people in all - three women and four men. Trent (who wants to investigate the supernatural), they were all chosen because they wanted/needed the $10,000 that Loren was offering to anyone who could stay one night in the house. David Trent (Alan Marshal), the house owner Watson Pritchard (Elisha Cook Jr.), and secretary/typist Nora Manning (Carolyn Craig). They are: test pilot Lance Schroeder (Richard Long), magazine columnist Ruth Bridges (Julie Mitchum), psychiatrist Dr. Over the opening credits, five people arrive at the house being driving in "funeral cars".
David Trent and secretary Nora Manning, who actually works for one of the Loren companies. The five seemingly willing invitees, who also do not know each other, are: Watson Pritchard himself, who truly believes that the ghosts of his murdered family members haunt the house, and who are there to bring others to their side of the dead test pilot Lance Schroeder columnist Ruth Bridges psychiatrist Dr.
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While some state some professional reason for attending, all five, openly or secretly, are being lured primarily by the money, which each does need. The hook for them to attend is that he will give a total of $50,000 equally to the surviving members of the party, the stipulation, which they are not aware of until their arrival, being that they will be locked in the house for twelve hours with no way out, including no means of communication to the outside world, until the return of the caretakers at the end of those twelve hours. While Annabelle is acting as the reluctant front, the party is being organized by Frederick, including coming up with the guest list comprised solely of five people he has never met, but who know of him only through reputation. Loren, the first three who died mysterious deaths - have rented the purportedly haunted family home of Watson Pritchard, who claims seven family members were murdered there, to host a haunted house party.
Wealthy Frederick Loren and his wife Annabelle Loren - she the fourth Mrs.