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House on Haunted Hill

  • 19991999
  • RR
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
5.6/10
56K
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POPULARITY
4,820
905
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Geoffrey Rush, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Chris Kattan, and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras in House on Haunted Hill (1999)
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  • Crime
  • Fantasy
  • Horror
An amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.An amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.An amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
IMDb RATING
5.6/10
56K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
4,820
905
  • Director
    • William Malone
  • Writers
    • Robb White(story)
    • Dick Beebe(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Geoffrey Rush
    • Famke Janssen
    • Taye Diggs
Top credits
  • Director
    • William Malone
  • Writers
    • Robb White(story)
    • Dick Beebe(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Geoffrey Rush
    • Famke Janssen
    • Taye Diggs
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 574User reviews
    • 153Critic reviews
    • 28Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 4 nominations

    Videos2

    House on Haunted Hill
    Trailer 0:32
    House on Haunted Hill
    House on Haunted Hill
    Trailer 0:31
    House on Haunted Hill

    Photos239

    Donald Blackburn
    Eddie in pain
    Outside the house
    Price & Evelyn
    In the drawing room
    Steven B. Price
    Melissa Marr
    Watson Pritchett
    Donald and Sarah/Jennifer
    Eddie Baker
    Price & Blackburn
    Steven B. Price

    Top cast

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    Geoffrey Rush
    Geoffrey Rush
    • Stephen Priceas Stephen Price
    Famke Janssen
    Famke Janssen
    • Evelynas Evelyn
    Taye Diggs
    Taye Diggs
    • Eddieas Eddie
    Peter Gallagher
    Peter Gallagher
    • Blackburnas Blackburn
    Chris Kattan
    Chris Kattan
    • Pritchettas Pritchett
    Ali Larter
    Ali Larter
    • Saraas Sara
    Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
    Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
    • Melissa Marras Melissa Marr
    • (as Bridgette Wilson)
    Max Perlich
    Max Perlich
    • Schecteras Schecter
    Jeffrey Combs
    Jeffrey Combs
    • Dr. Vannacuttas Dr. Vannacutt
    Dick Beebe
    • Male Nurseas Male Nurse
    Slavitza Jovan
    • Twisted Nurseas Twisted Nurse
    Lisa Loeb
    Lisa Loeb
    • Channel 3 Reporteras Channel 3 Reporter
    James Marsters
    James Marsters
    • Channel 3 Cameramanas Channel 3 Cameraman
    Jeannette Lewis
    • Price's Secretaryas Price's Secretary
    Janet Tracy Keijser
    Janet Tracy Keijser
    • Girl on Wiresas Girl on Wires
    Peter Graves
    Peter Graves
    • Peter Gravesas Peter Graves
    Bruno Angelico
    • Patientas Patient
    • (uncredited)
    Carrie Lauren
    Carrie Lauren
    • Theme Park Guestas Theme Park Guest
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • William Malone
    • Writers
      • Robb White(story)
      • Dick Beebe(screenplay)
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Geoffrey Rush was never meant to look like Vincent Price (star of the original film House on Haunted Hill (1959)). The original screenplay described Stephen Price as a regular looking businessman. Rush didn't care for this, so he suggested that his character look like the film director John Waters. The director agreed to test this look out. After his transformation, he ended up looking so much like Vincent Price the director decided to keep the look.
    • Goofs
      Some of the warnings in the basement are in very bad German - it seems somebody just used a dictionary and translated the English lines word-for-word. For example, one sign has the phrase "Steh zurück!" which means something like "Stay back!". A correct translation would be "Zurückbleiben" or in this context "Eintritt verboten" ("No admittance").
    • Quotes

      Pritchett: [walking slowly to Sara] You don't... get it... do you? This house is pissed. It has no morals, 'cause it's a fucking *house*!

    • Crazy credits
      After the final credits, there is an additional scene that features Steven and Evelyn strapped down on Vannacut's vivisection table. The scene ends with Vannacut watching as one hears Steven and Evelyn's screams.
    • Alternate versions
      Due to numerous circumstances (i.e. running time constraints and what not) a great deal of footage was excised from this motion picture. Three of the most important scenes were returned for the DVD release. They are:
      • two different versions of the same scene involving the real Jennifer Jenzen (Debi Mazar), a haughty, foul mouthed, arrogant movie producer and her assistant Sara (Ali Larter), who are on the set of a cheap drama Jennifer is producing. In one version, the set is in the courtyard of a regular house where a woman is telling a man, who is suffering from a seemingly terminal illness, to embrace life in spite of his condition. In the other version, a young couple, who seem to be medieval peasants, are frolicking on a meadow, falling to the ground and making out. In both versions, unhappy with the lack of sex and nudity in the film that could bring in the teen male audience, Jennifer curses the director out. Sara then arrives with a strange Art Deco music puzzle box that came in the mail for Jennifer. Despite Sara's advice and a warning label on the box, Jennifer arrogantly opens it the wrong way just because she was told not to, and cuts her finger on it. Sara laughs at this so vengeful Jennifer fires her on the spot and gives her the box to get rid of it. Sara however, finds the invite for the party on Haunted Hill in the box, and, although shocked by Jennifer's impromptu decision to fire her, she still tries to tell Jennifer about it, but when Jennifer refuses to hear her out, Sara just takes the invitation for herself and leaves, smiling.
      • a scene towards the climax when Eddie Baker (Taye Diggs) and Sara are running from the shadow demon exploding the floorboards, they are led into a dead end. Eddie jumps onto a hanging light fixture, holding onto Sara as the floor beneath them explodes. He loses his grip on Sara and she falls through the hole into a subterranean cavern beneath the house where the remains of Doctor Vannicut's victims lie. The shadow creeps into the cavern and reanimates the dead bodies causing this huge zombie attack. Eddie drops down and saves Sara and the chase continues from where it left off in the finished cut of the film (however, if you notice, in the finished cut of the film during the chase scene there is a continuity error when Sara's running. In one shot she's wearing her jacket and in the other it's mysteriously vanished, it's vanished because during the cut portion of this climactic chase, Sara loses her jacket when she falls into the cavern. Her jacket is then used by Eddie to pull her up and out to safety).
      • an epilogue was also cut from the film involving the real Jennifer Jenzen (Debbie Mazar) inheriting the house on haunted hill. When she goes to check it out with real estate agent Dick (played by Jeffrey Combs (who is also Dr. Vannicut!) we see her enter the house and then a horrifying scream follows. The scene was cut because director William Malone felt the scene was a bit too humorous for the film and that it did not fit what was filmed at all).
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Music of the Heart/House on Haunted Hill/Being John Malkovich/Princess Mononoke (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
      Written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart (as Dave Stewart)

      Performed by Marilyn Manson

      Courtesy of Nothing/Interscope Records

      Under License from Universal Music Special Markets

    User reviews574

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    Entertaining and pretty scary, until the last 10 minutes.
    I won't go into a full review, since there are countless others and they all say about the same thing, which is that the movie is actually pretty good until the last 5 or 10 minutes, and I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys scary movies. It really has a nice mix of suspense, horror, gore, and levity, without overdoing it on any of those, or with the special effects (except for the ending). The score is also pretty good, and I liked the use of Marilyn Manson's eerie remake of "Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This".

    Unfortunately, it wasn't enough for the filmmakers that the house just be evil or haunted... someone involved with the film decided the "evil" should have some sort of actual form. I think that was a very bad idea, but it was a bad idea made much MUCH worse by some very cheesy fractal/mirrored CGI effects. Maybe they blew their budget on the set and the actors (quite possible), and didn't have enough left over to properly give form to the "evil" with CGI, so they just settled for what they could get. IMO it would've been much better if they'd never given any form to it at all.

    I gave this movie a rating of 7 in this review, but I'd really give it a 6.5 if I could. If not for the horrible turn the movie takes in the last 10 minutes, with the absurd mirrored fractal CGI effects, I'd actually have given it a 7.5 to an 8. Everybody's comments about the ending are spot on.... it's just a huge let down.

    Btw, that sun rising over the ocean at the end is a pretty big goof. The movie is set on the west coast, where the sun SETS over the ocean.
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    • Jul 7, 2017

    FAQ9

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 29, 1999 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Warner Bros.
      • Warner Bros. (alternate)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Ngôi Nhà Trên Đồi Quỷ Ám
    • Filming locations
      • Griffith Observatory - 2800 E Observatory Rd, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Dark Castle Entertainment
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $37,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $40,846,082
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $15,946,032
      • Oct 31, 1999
    • Gross worldwide
      • $42,593,455
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1(original ratio, open matte)

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