6. The Freaky, Random Old Lady in House On Haunted Hill (1959)
If someone ever invents a time machine, one of the more random things we’d love to do is travel back to the days when perennial horror showman William Castle was debuting new flicks in packed theaters. He was a man of many entertaining, interactive gimmicks, including flying skeletons above audience’s heads and rigging theater chairs to jolt during particularly scary scenes.
As for his movies, they were funhouse experiences, too, namely 1959’s House On Haunted Hill, which includes a bizarre, inexplicable scene where one of the heroines walks down a hallway and, out of nowhere, bumps into what looks like the Wicked Witch’s frozen stunt double and glides away as if someone pushed her skateboard from behind. One of horror’s great WTF moments, for sure.