Los Feliz Murder House

Murder, suicide

The Los Feliz Murder House is a Spanish Revival estate, 5,050 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms designed by architect
Harry E. Werner, and constructed in 1925. In December of 1959, this mansion in the Hollywood Hills became the scene of a tragic murder-suicide.

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House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Overnight in a haunted house

I watched the 1959 William Castle production “House on Haunted Hill”. Frederick Loren, a millionaire, invites 5 people to a party in a haunted house he has rented. All that stays the entire night will get ten thousand dollars each. He says that his wife Annabelle, who stays up in her room, wanted the party. William Castle both produced and directed while Robb White (an American writer of screenplays, television scripts, and adventure novels) wrote and co-produced this horror film.

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