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House on Haunted Hill (1999) -- A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
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5.2/10   21,424 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Robb White (story)
Dick Beebe (screenplay)
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Release Date:
29 October 1999 (USA) more
Tagline:
Six strangers have the chance to make $1,000,000 EACH. All they have to do is make it through the night alive. more
Plot:
A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win & 2 nominations more
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NOT A BAD REMAKE more (517 total)

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MPAA:
Rated R for horror violence and gore, sexual images and language.
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93 min | Spain:99 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Cindy Crawford was considered for the role of Melissa Margaret Marr. more
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Continuity: After the electroshock machine is turned off, the hood on Evelyn's head is unbuckled twice, first by Mr. Price then by Dr. Blackburn. more
Quotes:
Steven H. Price: [after throwing a wrench and disengaging the lock-down] So much for a PhD in engineering. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) more

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25 out of 39 people found the following comment useful.
NOT A BAD REMAKE, 29 October 1999
8/10
Author: TEXICAN-2 from Benbrook, Texas

This is not a bad remake. It is "R" rated, so parents beware, this is NOT the Price classic of 1958. Within the first scene there is gore (surgery on a wide awake man), violence (the inmates of the asylum break loose and attack the staff), and nudity (uniforms ripped open on the women). This is crucial to the plot (Hill House is not the same murder house from the original, it's a former asylum for the criminally insane where torture and experimentations are done on the inmates). A fire breaks out and all but five die.

Jump to present day. Multimillionaire Steven Price (is the name a nod to Vincent?) played by Geoffrey Rush, doing his best sideshow barker impersonation/Williams Castle impersonation, and wife (Famke Janssen) are having a party, in the restored former asylum. The guest's trip to the house is still via several hearse and from this point much of the original plot is maintained.

The part that bothered me about the arrival scene at the house, was the inappropriate song. It set the wrong mood, and I worried about what was going to be next. Thankfully, the rest of the score (except the end title) was strictly orchestral, and sent a nice dark mood to try to help to scare you. Applause to Don Davis.

House does rely rather heavily on special effects as do all the current re-makes. Is it really better or worse for it? I think it adds, and they didn't just redo the same show. It's spooky and a good Halloween movie, and a dark theater is excellent for it's effect. I am sorry, but there was nothing that I found really scary or horrifying. Of course, I haven't really been scared by a movie since I saw the Wolf Man (1941), with Lon Chaney jr, in 1958.

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