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House on Haunted Hill (1999)


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Two and 1/2 out of Five

Movie

Rating: R (horror violence and gore, sexual images and language)
Length: 93 minutes

Video

Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)

Audio

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1

Captions

English, French

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Plot

A remake of the 1958 classic with Vincent Price, a millionaire offers a group of "pretty people" a million dollars if they spend the night in a "Haunted House".

Pros

This isn't as eerie as the first film but they replaced that with gore, special effects and some lovely ladies.

Cons

Some of the acting is a bit over-the-top and, like a number of movies today, they tried to replace horror and suspense with special effects.

Extras

  • Director's Commentary
  • Behind the Scenes Documentaries
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Theatrical Trailer

Recommendation

A decent way to kill 1.5 hours if this is the type of genre you're interested in.

Director

Actors

Dick Beebe - Male Nurse
Jeffrey Combs - Dr. Richard Benjamin Vannacutt
[FeardotCom, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Return to House on Haunted Hill]
Taye Diggs - Eddie Baker
[Basic, Equilibrium]
Peter Gallagher - Donald W. Blackburn, M.D.
Famke Janssen - Evelyn Stockard-Price
[Goldeneye, Rounders, X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand]
Slavitza Jovan - Twisted Nurse
Chris Kattan - Watson Pritchett
Janet Tracy Keijser - Girl on Wires
Ali Larter - Sara Wolfe
[Final Destination, Final Destination 2, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Resident Evil: Extinction]
Jeannette Lewis - Price's Secretary
Lisa Loeb - Channel 3 Reporter
James Marsters - Channel 3 Cameraman
Max Perlich - Carl Schecter
[Blow, The Missing]
Geoffrey Rush - Stephen H. Price
[Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Intolerable Cruelty, POTC: The Curse of the Black Pearl/At World's End]
Bridgette Wilson - Melissa Margaret Marr

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