Post by nix on Jan 16, 2010 17:32:18 GMT -5
Meanwhile, the Film Forum was in full swing. Today’s film was a showing of House on Haunted Hill, the old 1958 Vincent Price movie best known for having a trick skeleton emerge from a hidden trapdoor at a specific moment. This particular screening was to feature a recreation of William Castle’s “skeleton on wires” trick. Onscreen, the cover over the acid pit pulled up, and the skeleton inside emerged to terrorize Carol Ohmart’s character as Price’s voice taunted her from some hidden alcove.
The projectionist threw the switch, but nothing happened. Suddenly, the screen itself began to bulge, as if something were trying to claw its way out, and a ghostly skeleton emerged, terrorizing the audience and laughing maniacally.
Several minutes later, the theater doors violently swung open, heralding the arrival of the Ghostbusters, who raised their nutrona wands and hurled particle beams at the spook.
“Easy now, boys,” Ray instructed. “Peter, start bringing your beam to the right a little bit. Winston, pull yours in to the left. Egon, start pulling back. I’ll bring mine in forward.” The skeleton struggled against the proton beams, to no avail. Peter and Winston gave one more tug,, and wrenched the skull from the body in the process. Egon and Ray had a better time with the body, which didn’t put up much of a fight, but that skull gave Peter and Winston a real hard time.
“A little help here, guys?” Peter moaned. Egon checked his PKE meter and said, “We need to combine the skull and the body into one confinement beam. “Easier said than done,” Winston grunted “This one here’s givin’ me the business.” Egon called to Ray, telling him to help Peter and Winston with the skull. “Don’t worry, I can manage with the body.”