House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 55
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 40
Unsophisticated and unoriginal film fails to produce scares.
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 10
Unsophisticated and unoriginal film fails to produce scares.
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In this remake of William Castle's campy 1958 classic, an eccentric millionaire named Steven Price invites a diverse group of people to a reputedly haunted mansion that was formerly the site of an insane asylum. Steven offers his guests $1,000,000 each if they can spend the entire night at the old house without fleeing in terror. It sounds simple enough, but when those stories about ghosts haunting the mansion turn out to be true, the guests may no longer opt to stick around. In this version,
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Cast
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Geoffrey Rush
Steven Price -
Famke Janssen
Evelyn Price -
Taye Diggs
Eddie -
Peter Gallagher
Dr. Blackburn -
Chris Kattan
Watson Prichett -
Ali Larter
Sara Wolfe -
Bridgette Wilson
Melissa Marr -
Max Perlich
Schecter -
Jeffrey Combs
Dr. Vannacutt -
Lisa Loeb
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All Critics (72) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (43) | DVD (24)
Consistently inert -- even though the fee for successful housesitting has been raised to a million bucks a night.
Top CriticAs in The Haunting, they eventually surrender characters and story to computer-generated spectacle, squandering any creepy immediacy and trampling the human element.
A bloody mess.
Directed with a nimble, savvy touch.
House on Haunted Hill isn't a great movie. It is, however, a good deal of gory fun.
Drained of any wild, spontaneous spark.
It's a cheesy throwaway horror flick, but it's a tight cheesy throwaway horror flick.
[It's] one of the great underrated horror flicks of the last decade. Yes, really.
Quarts of shiny blood are splashed around and numerous moans and groans pepper the soundtrack, but astonishingly, the movie never manages to provoke so much as a shudder.
...An excellent show of digi-graphics. But it is seldom scary.
There's a great deal of general creepiness, but the enterprise is undercut by a weak script, weak characters, and a too simple plot.
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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