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House on Haunted Hill
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by Warner Home Video
Sales Rank: 30509
Price: $9.98
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<I>House on Haunted Hill</I> is one of the new breed of waste-no-time thrill machines, like <I>Deep Blue Sea</I>, and a particularly effective example at that. The plot is pure contrivance: For a party stunt, a wealthy amusement-park manufacturer (Geoffrey Rush) offers five people a million dollars if they spend the night in a former insane asylum where the patients murdered the sadistic staff. But it turns out the five people who arrive aren't the five he invited--did his wife (Famke Janssen), who hates him, make the switch? From there events unfold with a smart combination of human and supernatural machinations; spooky jolts are dispensed at regular, but not entirely predictable, intervals. The visual effects owe a considerable debt to <I>Jacob's Ladder</I>, a much more ambitious movie; <I>House on Haunted Hill</I> just wants to get under your skin, and succeeds more than you'd expect. Rush is his entertainingly hammy self; Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, and Bridgette Wilson are attractive and reasonably straight-faced about it all; and Chris Kattan is genuinely funny as the house's neurotic owner. Some elements of the plot seem to have been lost in the editing process, but it hardly matters. More bothersome is that the scares go flat when computer effects take over at the end--the digital images just aren't as creepy as the more suggestive stuff that came before. But that's just the very end; most of the movie has a lot of momentum. Watch until the end of the credits for a final bit of eeriness. <I>--Bret Fetzer</I>
Viewer Reviews
I think this is really good remake of a classic horror film! It's a little different from the original, but that's okay. Evelyn Price wants her birthday party at the house on Haunted Hill. She makes her husband, Steven write out a guest list. Somehow, 5 different people show up that were not on the list. Steven makes them an offer; whoever stays the whole night, and don't die, they will receive one million dollars. Throughout the night, creepy things happen. They see ghosts, and they are being killed. Who will survive? It just goes to show you that 'evil loves to party!' I highly recommend HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL!!!
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