House on Haunted Hill

House on Haunted Hill (1999)

Genres - Horror, Thriller  |   Sub-Genres - Gothic Film, Haunted House Film  |   Release Date - Oct 29, 1999 (USA)  |   Run Time - 96 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Mark Deming

In this remake of William Castle's campy 1958 classic, an eccentric millionaire named Steven Price invites a diverse group of people to a reputedly haunted mansion that was formerly the site of an insane asylum. Steven offers his guests $1,000,000 each if they can spend the entire night at the old house without fleeing in terror. It sounds simple enough, but when those stories about ghosts haunting the mansion turn out to be true, the guests may no longer opt to stick around. In this version, Steven is played by Geoffrey Rush, and his guests include Jeffrey Combs, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher, Chris Kattan, and Bridgette Wilson; Famke Janssen plays Evelyn Price. Sadly, this remake does not feature the original's memorable special-effects gimmick, "Emergo," an inflatable plastic skeleton that rolled on wires through the theater during showings.

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asylum [mental hospital], ghost, haunted-house, mansion, millionaire, wager, group