Comments on: Hollywood’s Scariest Haunted Houses http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2009/03/sense-of-wonder-hollywoods-most-haunted-houses/ The Review of Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Films Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:44:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The Haunting in Connecticut - Film Review | Cinefantastique Online http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2009/03/sense-of-wonder-hollywoods-most-haunted-houses/comment-page-1/#comment-13606 The Haunting in Connecticut - Film Review | Cinefantastique Online Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:32:57 +0000 http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/?p=7431#comment-13606 [...] If you like haunted houses, check out Cinefantastique Online’s catalogue listing of the hottest haunted properties on the market. [...] [...] If you like haunted houses, check out Cinefantastique Online’s catalogue listing of the hottest haunted properties on the market. [...]

]]> By: Steve Biodrowski http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2009/03/sense-of-wonder-hollywoods-most-haunted-houses/comment-page-1/#comment-13413 Steve Biodrowski Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:26:10 +0000 http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/?p=7431#comment-13413 Thanks for mentioning the House on Haunted Hill. I neglected to include it because - although we hear about ghosts - we never see any (at least in 1959), leading me to suspect the only thing haunted about the place is its reputation. Of course, in 1999, a few real ghosts did show up. Thanks for mentioning the House on Haunted Hill. I neglected to include it because – although we hear about ghosts – we never see any (at least in 1959), leading me to suspect the only thing haunted about the place is its reputation. Of course, in 1999, a few real ghosts did show up.

]]> By: Lawrence French http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2009/03/sense-of-wonder-hollywoods-most-haunted-houses/comment-page-1/#comment-13412 Lawrence French Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:10:04 +0000 http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/?p=7431#comment-13412 Steve, I just returned from the Haunted Hills of Hollywood where I found a property you might like to add to your list. The fabulous Ennis-Brown House located at 2607 Glendower Avenue in the Los Felix district of Los Angeles. It was one of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's most notable buildings in Los Angeles, and was constructed the very same year Lon Chaney was shooting "The Phantom of the Opera" on the sound stage at Universal. Wright designed it with several special features, including a hidden pool in the basement, which proved to be especially effective for tragic accidents, especially when the pool was filled with Sulfuric Acid! In 1959 actor Vincent Price held a Haunted House party at the house, with director William Castle directing the proceedings. Things naturally got a little bit out of hand when all the guests where given party favors that consisted of revolvers with live ammunition! Two or more guests reportedly died that night, but the whole incident was hushed up. Unlike the more traditional haunted houses, Wright's building was made of concrete blocks, which were reportedly mixed with the blood of several of the workman who died during it's lengthy construction period, which gave it a reputation of being haunted before it's owners even moved in. Wright himself compared the building to a spider waiting in it's web to entrap it's next victim: "Concrete is a plastic material—susceptible to the impress of imagination. I saw a kind of weaving coming out of it... Lightness and strength! Steel the spider spinning a web within the cheap, molded material and wedded to it by pouring an inner core of cement after the blocks were set up." — Frank Lloyd Wright Asking Price must be astronomical for this beauty, but my guess is it would have to be north of $15 million, and that for a house that during the next big earthquake will probably fall down the the haunted hill it is so precariously perched on! Steve, I just returned from the Haunted Hills of Hollywood where I found a property you might like to add to your list. The fabulous Ennis-Brown House located at 2607 Glendower Avenue in the Los Felix district of Los Angeles. It was one of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s most notable buildings in Los Angeles, and was constructed the very same year Lon Chaney was shooting “The Phantom of the Opera” on the sound stage at Universal.

Wright designed it with several special features, including a hidden pool in the basement, which proved to be especially effective for tragic accidents, especially when the pool was filled with Sulfuric Acid!

In 1959 actor Vincent Price held a Haunted House party at the house, with director William Castle directing the proceedings. Things naturally got a little bit out of hand when all the guests where given party favors that consisted of revolvers with live ammunition! Two or more guests reportedly died that night, but the whole incident was hushed up.

Unlike the more traditional haunted houses, Wright’s building was made of concrete blocks, which were reportedly mixed with the blood of several of the workman who died during it’s lengthy construction period, which gave it a reputation of being haunted before it’s owners even moved in. Wright himself compared the building to a spider waiting in it’s web to entrap it’s next victim:

“Concrete is a plastic material—susceptible to the impress of imagination. I saw a kind of weaving coming out of it…
Lightness and strength! Steel the spider spinning a web within the cheap, molded material and wedded to it by pouring an inner core of cement after the blocks were set up.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Asking Price must be astronomical for this beauty, but my guess is it would have to be north of $15 million, and that for a house that during the next big earthquake will probably fall down the the haunted hill it is so precariously perched on!

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