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06/17/08
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
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Reviews Counted: 51
Fresh: 12
Rotten:39
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Consensus: Unsophisticated and unoriginal film fails to produce scares.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Steven Price (a very hammy Geoffrey Rush) is a wealthy amusement park owner who invites several strangers to his shrewish wife's birthday party, this year held in the abandoned Vannacutt Institute... [More]
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter
Director: William Malone
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01/15/08
It's a cheesy throwaway horror flick, but it's a tight cheesy throwaway horror flick.
09/24/07
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02/09/06
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12/06/05
[It's] one of the great underrated horror flicks of the last decade. Yes, really.
02/17/05
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12/05/04
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.
07/02/03
...An excellent show of digi-graphics. But it is seldom scary.
02/08/03
There's a great deal of general creepiness, but the enterprise is undercut by a weak script, weak characters, and a too simple plot.
12/08/02
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.
12/02/02
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11/30/02
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10/30/02
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08/15/02
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06/19/02
All the visual bravura doesn't fill in the gaping plot holes or generate any real frights.
06/05/02
Consistently inert -- even though the fee for successful housesitting has been raised to a million bucks a night.
03/19/02
Top CriticIt won’t exercise your grey matter, but it may well give your inner child pause for thought
09/15/01
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02/27/01
This is almost a green light. If you considered yourself a connoisseur of horror films, you'll be disappointed. If you are easily scared then you will love it.
02/14/01
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