If this sounds vaguely familiar, you may be haunted by unpleasant memories of July's expensive box office bomb 'The Haunting,' a nearly identical remake of an entirely different vintage cornball horror movie in which a group of strangers is trapped in a haunted mansion that come alive and ties to snuff them all. Rush, an amusement park mogul whose raison detre is devising heart attack-enducing scares for his patrons, has lured them there with the promise of a million dollars each if they survive the night, but even he doesn't know what terrors lay in store. Price a household name, 'House' revolves around a group of strangers trapped overnight in an abandon, poorly-lit mansion (and former insane asylum) that comes alive and tries to snuff them all. Over-produced remake of vintage Vincent Price horror flick, never scary or even interestingĭespite featuring the usually respectable and potentially very ghoulish Geoffrey Rush in a snarling Vincent Price reinterpretation, 'House On Haunted Hill' is not only never scary, it's never even interesting.Īn unmotivated, throw-money-at-the-screen remake one of those vintage cornball horror flicks that made the late Mr.

With said effects diminished on the small screen there's even less of a point to watching it. This movie received a dishonorable mention in the Worst of 1999 list. Starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Bridgette Wilson, Peter Gallagher & Chris Kattan

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