HorroRated archive entry
House on Haunted Hill
HorroRated verdict
- Directed by
- William Malone
- Written by
- Dick Beebe, Robb White
- Produced by
- Gilbert Adler, Robert Zemeckis, Joel Silver, Steve Richards, Dan Cracchiolo, Ed Tapia, Terry Castle, Paul Taglianetti, Richard J. Cook
Why it’s HorroRated
William Malone's remake has good production design and a real eerie atmosphere. Geoffrey Rush leans into the Vincent Price energy with clear affection and the asylum setting gives the scares a historical weight the original lacked. It goes too big in the third act but earns its place as a reliable Halloween-night watch.
Synopsis
Stephen Price has bought an old sanitarium with a violent history and organized a challenge for a group he's selected for his own reasons. The building's design is the film's strongest argument for itself: a machine built around a specific occult purpose. Geoffrey Rush plays his Vincent Price homage with visible pleasure and the film is darker and stranger than its marketing suggested.
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Quick facts
- Release date
- October 29, 1999
- Runtime
- 1 hour 33 mins
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- Content rating
- R
- Entry type
- Movie
