The House on Haunted Hill

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Summary: The best terror movie of the year!
Review: It's a journey of sensations and feelings with very new tecnics of terror. New forms to scare the people, I really must confess I'm a fan of Robert Zemeckis and when I saw this movie I realize of his talent to make a terror movie. The surround sounds are simply espectacular!, the only advise for latin customers is this movie doesn't have spanish subtitles but it doesn't care because you don`t need to understand nothing to scare yourself a lot.

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Summary: Watch this in the dark
Review: This is a great movie to watch while you're alone, and in the dark! The actors in this creepy film are great. Geoffrey Rush easily pulls off the roll as a rich amusement park owner. Famke Janssen plays his spoiled wife Evelyn. This film sends chills up your back as you begin to realize that this innocent birthday party may turn a funeral party quickly. If you want a good spook, watch this film, but remember alone and in the DARK!

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Summary: one of the best horror movies i've seen
Review: this is a very good horror movie. the music and acting is all very good. this movie is much better than the haunting. i definetely reccommend this movie to any one who likes scary movies.

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Summary: About as scary as an Ewok
Review: I really wanted to be scared! But alas, today's movie makers have lost all touch with all that is scary and creepy. Blood isn't scary, a body without a head isn't scary, and loud noises aren't scary. I knew this movie has a paper-thin plot going it, but thought maybe, just maybe, the creepy-crawlies could at least make it entertaining. Well guess what? This plot is the weakest I've seen in a long time, almost to the point of being laughable. It is beyond paper-thin . . . it is on the molecular level! Five people in a haunted house during the night. Those who survive split $5 million! WEAK! The underlying murder plot between the Price's does nothing to save this lame duck. The acting is campy at best, with the only good performance being put in by Saturday Night Live regular Chris Kattan who plays the part of comic relief. There were a few things in the movie that did creep me out. The blurry, shaking people kinda give me the willies . . . don't know why, they just do. The rest of the movie was out and out dumb. And what's the deal with Geoffrey Rush? He goes from winning an Academy Award for Shine, to making two pieces of tripe like Mystery Men and House on Haunted Hill...

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Summary: Great Scary Movie
Review: I thought House On Haunted Hill was a great movie. It had a lot of suspense, chills, and surprises. All the actors were great. I would recommend this movie to any one who likes a good scare.

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Summary: lame remake
Review: "House on Haunted Hill," though surely no worse than 1999's remake of "The Haunting," is, also, distressingly not much better. Itself a redux of a 1959 Vincent Price film, this modernization goes the usual route of adding buckets of blood and gore in a vain attempt to "update" material that is better left in its original form.

The film actually holds some promise in its early stages. Geoffrey Rush, in a marvelous display of scenery-chewing grandeur, stars as a thoroughly daft amusement park designer who decides to invite a group of people to his wife's birthday bash to be held at an old, abandoned insane asylum (a plot detail, by the way, that renders the film's title meaningless) that once functioned as the torture chamber for a mad scientist turned mass butcher. Of course, Rush has promised to give $1 million to whoever manages to survive the night. Unfortunately, though, once the cadre of handpicked nitwits is gathered within the secured confines of the haunted building, the film takes a decided turn downhill, settling into a standard slasher/haunted house film format replete with overwrought special effects, a limitless supply of gore and carnage, and endless shots of characters roaming along dark, flashlight-illuminated corridors, just waiting to be picked off one by one.

Despite the occasional nifty plot twist, the offbeat humor that informs the earlier sections of the film begins to drain away as Rush himself becomes more victim than prankster. That is a true shame because none of the other characters, with the possible exception of Rush's equally macabre and eccentric wife, evokes the slightest degree of interest or empathy from the audience. By the time heads are rolling and the house is methodically tracking each one down to be its next victim, we are ready to take the money and run ourselves.

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Summary: A worthy remake on a classic theme, with a PC dose
Review: Haunted houses, evil scientists and an obligatory black man to save white women from a possesed house and the drunken incompetence of white guys. Captured is the 'campy' feel that I find missing in many modern films. This combined with some good shocks and some 'chewey' scenes make for a good evening away from reality.

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Summary: The best haunted house movie of the year
Review: This movie has all the factors that make a movie a success: A good plot with lots of twists to what you expect; great sound and visuals; fitting music (Marilyn Mansons version of an Eurythmics song); the DVD version has cool special features and commentaries on how this movie was made (some of the stuff will creep you knowing that the place it was filmed in actually has a history); the characters, specially the actor who plays the vincent price role. Its sad that this year "The Haunting" also came out and being that it wasn't that good of a movie some people confused the two movies and never got to watch "House on Haunted Hill" which is way better. Love it!

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Summary: A neat little thriller
Review: Three stars and part of another one. I was expecting a possibly entertaining little piece of junk, based on what I'd heard about it. But THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL was a pleasant surprise, with a howlingly funny opening, a fairly witty script, likeable performances by Geoffrey Rush and Famke Janssen, and a pretty creepy bunch of set pieces--especially some of the quick, atmospheric shots of Jeffrey Combs as the classic mad doctor. Nice use of CGI -- unlike the recent HAUNTING, the effects don't come off like cartoons. They're pretty scary, as a matter of fact. All in all, a very pleasant diversion for an evening.

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Summary: You Know
Review: This film was alright. It wasn't all that scary, and it was a little bit scary and fun. But amazon.com is right it's one of those genre waste time films that they don't put alot of detail into. All the movie cares about is being scared which the film did have. It's really gory at the begining and through out the film but I recommend it, if your in the mood for lots of gore and a little scare.