The original had two things this one doesn't: a bit of class and some genuine suspense.
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House on Haunted Hill (1999)
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Reviews Counted:53
Fresh:12
Rotten:41
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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Reviews for House on Haunted Hill
Paints its characters in strokes so broad just one would cover a barn, and, in the end, indulges in lame, dull digital effects that would put a 5-year-old to sleep.
01/01/00
Top CriticFails to deliver even one good 'boo!' moment.
01/01/00
Top CriticHouse On Haunted Hill is not only never scary, it's never even interesting.
01/01/00
The House On Haunted Hill is a meandering mess of stuck-together scare tactics, none of which works.
01/01/00
If Geoffrey Rush has any sense, he's sitting in his kitchen right now with a stack of his press materials and a bottle of correction fluid
01/01/00
[It's] one of the great underrated horror flicks of the last decade. Yes, really.
02/17/05
Drained of any wild, spontaneous spark.
11/29/09
House on Haunted Hill is a sorry reincarnation of the 1950s William Castle horror film.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's a cheesy throwaway horror flick, but it's a tight cheesy throwaway horror flick.
09/24/07
It's all utterly predictable, yet, The House on Haunted Hill manages to whip up enough suspense, liberally seasoned with doses of wry humor, to keep things moving.
01/01/00
It won’t exercise your grey matter, but it may well give your inner child pause for thought
09/15/01
Moments of effective horror pop up on a semi-regular basis, but they are not enough to offset the increasingly tedious feel.
01/01/00
Had more attention been paid to the characters, plot and less on the concluding special effects, however, it would have been a far better film.
01/01/00
Consistently inert -- even though the fee for successful housesitting has been raised to a million bucks a night.
03/19/02
Top CriticLoud, sloppy, stupid, and inept, the film wastes Rush and Peter Gallagher, along with several lesser talents: Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Chris Kattan.
01/01/00
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
House on Haunted Hill is the kind of horror movie that's not a bit scary and quite a bit gross.
01/01/00
Top CriticAll the visual bravura doesn't fill in the gaping plot holes or generate any real frights.
06/05/02
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April 12, 2007:
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