House on Hunted Hill
Studio: Dark Castle Entertainment
Director: William Malone
Writer: Robb White, Dick Beebe
Release date: October 29th 1999 US
Staring: Geoffrey Rush, Famke
Janssen, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher,
Chris Kattan, Ali Later, Jeffrey Combs
Running Time: 93 minutes
Rated: R
Director: William Malone
Writer: Robb White, Dick Beebe
Release date: October 29th 1999 US
Staring: Geoffrey Rush, Famke
Janssen, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher,
Chris Kattan, Ali Later, Jeffrey Combs
Running Time: 93 minutes
Rated: R
Back of the box:
Eccentric millionaire Steven Price (Geoffrey Rush) offers his party guests
$1 million if they stay the night in a mansion that was once an insane
asylum. Not knowing Price has rigged the house with spooky contraptions,
the guests think they'll make some easy money and leave unscathed in the
morning. But, along with Price's bogus scares, a very sinister -- and real --
spirit lurks in the house.
Eccentric millionaire Steven Price (Geoffrey Rush) offers his party guests
$1 million if they stay the night in a mansion that was once an insane
asylum. Not knowing Price has rigged the house with spooky contraptions,
the guests think they'll make some easy money and leave unscathed in the
morning. But, along with Price's bogus scares, a very sinister -- and real --
spirit lurks in the house.
The Bloody Truth:
If only we knew back then that this film was part of the early stages in an
epidemic of remaking popular and unpopular films, we might have been
able to kill someone and stop the coming epidemic.
The Bloody Truth is House on Haunted Hill falls into a very simplistic
formula of converting horror into neat mass audience packages. The
creepy and stylized filmmaking is somewhat wasted on a forced and simple
modern scream fest, full of two dimensional characters and loads of
shallow plot twists. Compared to other remakes of the time and those to
follow, House on Haunted Hill did offer us some truly scary moments and
some genuine effort was put into the disturbing imagery. Unfortunately,
the film can’t escape that clean, produced Hollywood look that saps
atmosphere and true fright out of the film at ever step.
For a good and brainless horror evening you could do a lot worse than
House on Haunted Hill.
If only we knew back then that this film was part of the early stages in an
epidemic of remaking popular and unpopular films, we might have been
able to kill someone and stop the coming epidemic.
The Bloody Truth is House on Haunted Hill falls into a very simplistic
formula of converting horror into neat mass audience packages. The
creepy and stylized filmmaking is somewhat wasted on a forced and simple
modern scream fest, full of two dimensional characters and loads of
shallow plot twists. Compared to other remakes of the time and those to
follow, House on Haunted Hill did offer us some truly scary moments and
some genuine effort was put into the disturbing imagery. Unfortunately,
the film can’t escape that clean, produced Hollywood look that saps
atmosphere and true fright out of the film at ever step.
For a good and brainless horror evening you could do a lot worse than
House on Haunted Hill.
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