House on Haunted Hill

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House on Haunted Hill

R

1999

1h 36m

Horror

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A millionaire with theatrical tendencies, Stephen Price (Geoffrey Rush) invites a number of people to stay in a vast creepy building that used to be an insane asylum. Stephen, accompanied by his bitter wife, Evelyn (Famke Janssen), offers a million dollars to anyone who can stay the whole night without leaving out of fear. When Stephen and Evelyn become trapped with their guests, they quickly realize that the house really is haunted -- and the spirits dwelling within are very angry.

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Critics Consensus

Unsophisticated and unoriginal film fails to produce scares.

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

10/20/2018

2/4

[It's] hard to come down too harshly on this remake.

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Kim Newman

Sight & Sound

12/02/2002

The mix of laughs, shocks and gruesomeness is much the same as in the two Tales from the Crypt movies, but Malone coaxes a slightly fresher flavour, taking on board the influence of David Fincher and even Lars von Trier.

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

03/19/2002

1/4

Consistently inert -- even though the fee for successful housesitting has been raised to a million bucks a night.

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Andrea Beach

Common Sense Media

Jun 9

2/5

Unfortunately, the plot and action are so slow and plodding that if feels like it takes forever to get to the end we all see coming from the beginning.

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

12/30/2020

3.5/5

Does everything a remake should do: take the concept of the original and do something new with it. The CGI is atrocious, but it's a campy, gory and fun time.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

04/23/2019

1.5/4

The passage of time hasn't improved this version one iota, although at least home viewers don't have to subject themselves to the lobby posters sporting that year's daftest tagline ("Evil Loves To Party").

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Nick B

@NickBtheHorrorOG 4d

An insult to the original. Very stupid, not scary, and totally fits the late 90s/ early 2000s camp-y horror

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RichardAB T

@PoorDearRichard Jul 30

I knew this was doomed when the opening scene made me want to go clean the toilet instead. This film gets cheesy so fast it feels intentional, like someone’s idea of a prank. The characters are hollow, the pacing crawls, and nothing ever sparks enough to keep me connected. I kept waiting for it to actually begin, but it just sat there until I drifted into kittycat TikTok clips. Eventually I stopped paying attention, shut it off, and went to bed. Easily the best part of the night.

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Ryan T

@r2ssaint24 Jul 28

Great and fun film but wish they kept the deleted scene in the movie as it would’ve made it far better

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Logan D

@Greynomad38 Jul 20

Steven Price (Geoffrey Rush), an Amusement park mogul, invites several individuals to spend the night in a haunted asylum. Far more glossy than the original, this re-imagining of William Castle's 1959 classic trades gothic manor for an Art Deco set. There are some theatrical jump scares but ultimately it collapses into frenetic camera work and random death scenes of the cardboard characters. The CGI, especially toward the end is atrocious. Redemption comes in Rush's hammy performance, even sporting a Vincent Price mustache, and Jeffrey Combs in flashbacks as a sadistic psychiatrist.

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Jonathan O

@RT41230270 Jul 4

This remake sucks, there's no jump scares, and no soul from the original just only gore and is 92 minutes of what's going on and not knowing all characters backstory and spoiler alert for the post credit scene it doesn't make sense. But Geoffrey Rush did good Vincent Price impression.

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Richard B

@RT44012254 Jun 21

I loved it, and if you pay attention to currently, it’s grown a huge cult following, nobody especially myself listens to critics anymore lol why would I let some random tell me what I might or might not like! Don’t be a follower and think for yourself

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Evelyn Stockard-Price

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Synopsis

A millionaire with theatrical tendencies, Stephen Price (Geoffrey Rush) invites a number of people to stay in a vast creepy building that used to be an insane asylum. Stephen, accompanied by his bitter wife, Evelyn (Famke Janssen), offers a million dollars to anyone who can stay the whole night without leaving out of fear. When Stephen and Evelyn become trapped with their guests, they quickly realize that the house really is haunted -- and the spirits dwelling within are very angry.

Director: William Malone
Producer: Gilbert Adler, Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis
Screenwriter: Robb White, Dick Beebe
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros.
Production Co: Warner Brothers, Dark Castle Entertainment
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 29, 1999, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $40.8M
Runtime: 1h 36m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS, Surround

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