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Release Date:
29 October 1999 (USA) moreTagline:
Six strangers have the chance to make $1,000,000 EACH. All they have to do is make it through the night alive. morePlot:
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 synopsisAwards:
1 win & 2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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A Terrifying movie, with no ending more (517 total)US TV Schedule:
| Mon. Nov. 9 | 2:02 AM | AMC |
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Geoffrey Rush | ... | Stephen H. Price | |
| Famke Janssen | ... | Evelyn Stockard-Price | |
| Taye Diggs | ... | Eddie Baker | |
| Peter Gallagher | ... | Donald W. Blackburn, M.D. | |
| Chris Kattan | ... | Watson Pritchett | |
| Ali Larter | ... | Sara Wolfe | |
| Bridgette Wilson | ... | Melissa Margaret Marr | |
| Max Perlich | ... | Carl Schecter | |
| Jeffrey Combs | ... | Dr. Richard Benjamin Vannacutt | |
| Dick Beebe | ... | Male Nurse | |
| Slavitza Jovan | ... | Twisted Nurse | |
| Lisa Loeb | ... | Channel 3 Reporter | |
| James Marsters | ... | Channel 3 Cameraman | |
| Jeannette Lewis | ... | Price's Secretary | |
| Janet Tracy Keijser | ... | Girl on Wires |
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Rated R for horror violence and gore, sexual images and language.Parents Guide:
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93 min | Spain:99 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
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1.37 : 1 moreCertification:
Iceland:16 | Malaysia:18SG | USA:R (certificate #37055) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia) | Canada:18A (Video rating) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) | New Zealand:R16 | Philippines:R-18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Ireland:18 | Japan:PG-12 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | South Korea:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | Portugal:M/16Fun Stuff
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Geoffrey Rush's character's last name is Price. This is a reference to the original House on Haunted Hill (1959) in which Vincent Price played the main character. moreGoofs:
Continuity: Sara Wolfe's wandering through the basement is out of sequence. At one part she wanders into a darkened room filled with debris, but then in the close-up, there is a light through a door to her right as well as a clear path for her. In fact, the halls she wanders through keep changing from long shot to close-ups. moreQuotes:
Steven H. Price: Come on honey, let's go down and meet your guests.Evelyn Stockard-Price: You go ahead darling, I'm just going to run boiling hot water over the places you just touched me.
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) moreFAQ
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For once, a movie even scarier and more horrifying than the trailers for it. BUT......
The whole was not equal to the sum of its parts. Geoffrey Rush (what's HE doing in this movie?!) as Steven Price is actually a very interesting character, which can be attributed to either the effort the script takes to set him up, and/or the brilliance of the Oscar-winning actor in the role. Price's wife, Evelyn, gets similar treatment, but it is here the screenwriter(s?) get lazy.
The strangers in the house DO get a minimal amount of character set-up, i.e. who they are, what they do... but this information is never touched on again. One would HOPE that all ths information is being displayed for some higher purpose-- the background of these five strangers, the cat-and-mouse game played by Mr. & Mrs. Price, and Mr. Price's fascination with fear that is set up so intensely in the movie's opening minutes.
But alas, none of this GOES anywhere. It is all completely independent from the agenda of the House when I felt like it should all tie together, somehow. There are three forces at work here-- the ghosts who haunt the house, the humans who are trapped in it, and the Darkness that lives beneath it. These are all separate entities, we find, but for what purpose? This movie could have gone on another ten minutes, some loose ends could have been tied up, and I could have given it a much higher score.
Instead, what was truly an INTENSE build-up, sputters out at the very end of the movie. It didn't even feel like an end, it just felt like the movie stopped, and we're left without an explanation to what happens to the survivors-- including the most interesting character in the movie, the House itself.
7 out of 10. Fun to watch, truly terrifying, but incomplete.