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Summary: Is this an exam in special effects or somethin'?
Review: This is more like a long video on MTV than a horror movie.Pseudo effects, pseudo scary, pseudo manuscript. And no story at all! New horror movies nowadays seem like extremely bad parodies on the 1950's horror stuff.
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Summary: I'd do it, for a $million
Review: First, don't let anyone tell you It's like "The Haunting". Yea, the house is haunted but, definitely in a differant way. After viewing the mishap of a well known Insane Asylum years ago. You are taken to present day where an owner of an amusement park has a hellatious birthday party planned for his wife, you guessed it, the good old empty Asylum. Which for most part is very well kept up. (I gotta get that maid). Five people mysteriously get an invitation to the birthday bash stating if they make it till morning they each will receive $1mill. After arriving at the house everyone gets the low down on the history of the house, from there things get interesting. Unfortunatly, I must stop here, the rest you need to see for yourself. The visual effects, and cinematography are excellent. I would have given this movie five stars but, I'm hard to please and I was a little disappointed with the ending, I still highly recommend it for someone who likes to feel a chill going up their back.
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Summary: Horror finally makes a come-back ...
Review: After such disapointments as the Blair Witch Project and The Haunting, it's great to at lats see a geat horror film in the cinema, even if it is a remake. The film is just like a good oldfashioned horror movie (a remake that has stuck to old principles), with a laughable storyline, and great characters (half believable, half not). The organ music is a perfect accompaniment and will certainly make you jump as often as the scenes will. The manner in which the gore is presented is a bit more artistic than in most modern films - again adding to the atmosphere. The effects are not cutting edge - but the evil spirit is simple and fairly unique - very effective. And what's a horror film with perfect effects anyway ? These days usually useless. And, in good old days tradition, the laughs are in there as well. And, of course, there are enough plot twists to keep you thinking a little bit - if you're not too on edge as it is. I thouroughly recomend this to any horror fan - especially those who are getting a bit sick of the junk which is passed off in cinema these days.
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Summary: Not for the Faint of Heart
Review: If you're used to Scream and other such quasi-hip tame fare, HoHH will shock.It's gory(more so than I've seen in ages) and disturbing, and as it turns out, fairly frightening. Certainly lightyears better than last years other haunted house movie, The Haunting. Yes, the characters are morons and behave in a manner completely inappropriate to thier situation, but, hey, this is a horror movie. Geoffrey Rush and Famke Janssen in particular seem to be having the most fun with the 'shock and shlock' script as a married couple who are constantly in competition to kill each other, though the most note worthy thing about the movie is it's amazing and original design and art direction, which reminded me of a cross between victorian anatomical charts and my favorit video game, Silent Hill. The fx are decent, good in some places, miles better than the CGI travesty of The Haunting. In a word: Stupid but enjoyable.
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Summary: The Haunting for adults.
Review: What a shame! The first hour of HoHH is a genuine rollercoaster ride of thrills and some deeply disturbing visual and psychological scares (just what you want from a horror movie) but then after that it starts to rely only on it's special effects to scare. This is a shame as it could have been so much more if they had kept up the same level of psychological fear of the unseen. Instead they show us a black computer generated cloud which makes the whole thing seem like Jan de Bont's terrible The Haunting all over again.
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Summary: Great update of campy classic
Review: With a minimum of special effects (unlike the horrible remake of "The Haunting"), this update of the Vincent Price classics gives some good chills with plot twists and turns, things that go bump in the night and Chris Kattan as brilliant comic relief. Famke Janssen is one heck of a femme fatale - literally!
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Summary: A Fine Sample Of Twilght Zone Classics
Review: At the beginning of this horror movie , focus on the events. They are very likely to its original one.You think its the same of the first one but it's not because this time the rich person is also owner of theme park chains. Also when you see the machines and roller coasters in his parks you realize the madness of the film. You are scared a little but this is only beginning.This man invites five person to a house which is known as haunted and offers 1.000.000$ if they stay alive in there until morning. There is five person so five million dollars.Do you think they will murder each other and get each other's share? Don't be so sure!
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Summary: My friend and I saw this in the theater...
Review: and we were so scared at some parts. It was an excellent remake of the Vincent Price classic. One who has a weak stomach may want to reconsider seeing this movie, it has some gory parts! I really enjoyed this movie and have waited for it to come out on video.
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Summary: Another great remake!
Review: I haven't seen the DVD yet, but my experiance with this movie in the theater was more than incredible. I am not one who gets nervous or frightened by horror films, but this one had me on the edge of my seat biting my nails. Throughout the entire film, the uneasiness stays with you, beginning at the start when ......... All in all, this film is by far one of my favorites and is surely a worthy remake of the original.
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Summary: Non-stop thrills
Review: It is no coincedence that this film starts in an amusement park. It is a non-stop thrill ride from beginning to end.
The DVD is packed with great extras: 6 minidocumentaries, 3 deleted scenes (the second one, "Zombies" explains a continuity error - the missing jacket), commentary by the director, theatrical trailers for both versions of the film, scenes from the film "Creature", and a documentary on the two versions of the film.
Pop the disc in a DVD-ROM drive and you have access to two essays. The first is "Oh, The Horror! A History of Horror" with the following sections: Germanic Origins; The Universal Horror Factory; Bloody Rivals; A Symphony of Horrors; Ghosts, Ghouls and Gimmicks; Hammer's House of Horrors; Satan's Minions; The Shark That Ate the Box Office; "Psycho" and the Slashers; New Heights of Blood and Gore; Big-Budget Bloodbaths; Of Witches and Ghosts.
The second essay is "Take Two! (Or Three!) A Retrospective of Horror Remakes" with the following sections: "I Am...Dracula"; "It's Alive! It's Alive!"; "He's Here!"; "The Eighth Wonder of the World!"; "Watch the Skies!"; "You're Next! You're Next!"; "A Force...Beyond the Scope of Man's Imagination"; "Help Me! Help Me!"; "Mother, She Isn't Quite Herself Today"; "Welcome to Hill House".
The Website for the film is also included on the disc.
A Windows game is included title "Escape From the House."
While the game only works in Windows, the essays are accessible from a Macintosh using a web browser.
MPEG versions of trailers for "Arsenic and Old Lace", "Beetlejuice", "Poltergeist", "The Shining" (1980), and the two "Haunted Hill" films are on the disc as well.
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