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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790748221 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790748223 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 18, 2000 Running Time: 93 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1999 Sales Rank: 9410 MPN: WARD18018D
Description: When an eccentric millionaire offer a group of opposites $1,000,000 to spend the night in a so called "Haunted House" with a murderous past, they figure it is a quick way to get quick money and leave. All of them are sure it is some made up story just to mess with their heads a little and test their courage. But, once they stay in the house they start to think about the mistake they made in coming there when mysterious things start to happen.
Amazon.com: House on Haunted Hill is one of the new breed of waste-no-time thrill machines, like Deep Blue Sea, 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 Jacob's Ladder, a much more ambitious movie; House on Haunted Hill 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. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - fantastic remake!
This movie was really well remade! Its just as spooky and has a great story to go along with it! If you like scary movies, give this awesome geoffrey rush, famke jansen and ali larter remake a chance!
Rating: - House on Haunted Hill
The Gore was good, the story line was so so. The 2nd one was better.
Rating: - Just So-So
I watched this movie after a night out, I admit that it was better then expected, but its not a must see or even good Horror movie. It will keep you mildly entertained and you are not required to do a ... Read More
Rating: - So close to being perfect!
Great, enjoyable movie full of scares and thrills, and was so close to being a really perfect thriller/horror film if it weren't for the really bad digital effects used in the last half hour leaving me ... Read More
Rating: - I give it three for its storyline but it has some good scares
I didn't really see anything impressive with this storyline- I give it a three.
But if you like being scared/startled and if you like suspence in that sense this film delivers-I rate it between ... Read More
- fantastic remake!
- House on Haunted Hill
- Just So-So