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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.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins

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 for the Mentally Insane. There, he offers a prize of one million dollars to each party-goer who... 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 for the Mentally Insane. There, he offers a prize of one million dollars to each party-goer who can spend the entire night in the creepy and cavernous building. As Mr. and Mrs. Price play a bitter game of cat and mouse, the guests begin to think there are more ominous forces at work, especially after the body count begins to creep higher and higher. A remake of the 1958 low-budgeter starring Vincent Price. [More]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Peter Gallagher

Director: William Malone
Screenwriter: Dick Beebe
Story: Robb White
Producer: Gilbert Adler, Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis
Composer: Don Davis

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Release:

Jun 4, 2001

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Derek Adams
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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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12/02/02
Kim Newman
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Garth Franklin
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It's a cheesy throwaway horror flick, but it's a tight cheesy throwaway horror flick.

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Rob Gonsalves
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[It's] one of the great underrated horror flicks of the last decade. Yes, really.

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12/05/04
James O'Ehley
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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.

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07/02/03
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette
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...An excellent show of digi-graphics. But it is seldom scary.

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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There's a great deal of general creepiness, but the enterprise is undercut by a weak script, weak characters, and a too simple plot.

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Ron Wells
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All the visual bravura doesn't fill in the gaping plot holes or generate any real frights.

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06/05/02
Dwayne E. Leslie
Boxoffice Magazine
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Consistently inert -- even though the fee for successful housesitting has been raised to a million bucks a night.

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03/19/02
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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