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Release Date:
29 October 1999 (USA)
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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
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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
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2 nominations
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NOT A BAD REMAKE
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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.
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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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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/16
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Cindy Crawford was considered for the role of Melissa Margaret Marr.
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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.
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Quotes:
Steven H. Price:
[after throwing a wrench and disengaging the lock-down] So much for a PhD in engineering.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007) (V)
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Soundtrack:
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
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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.