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House on Haunted Hill
Warner Bros.


6.4

based on 17 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for horror violence and gore, sexual images and language

Starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher, Chris Kattan, Ali Larter, Bridgette Wilson, and Max Perlich

Decades after the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane was closed, five strangers are invited to spend a night there. Their reward is a million dollars each. All they have to do is stay alive. (Warner Bros.)

GENRE(S):	Horror
WRITTEN BY:	Dick Beebe Robb White (also story)
DIRECTED BY:	William Malone
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: April 18, 2000 Video: April 18, 2000 Theatrical: October 29, 1999
RUNNING TIME:	96 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Trash, but always just a little creepier than you expect.

Film.com Tom Keogh

The effects never really get ahead of the characters or the script's layered personality.

LA Weekly Ron Stringer

Low-budget, high-camp.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

The kind of horror movie that's not a bit scary and quite a bit gross.

Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson

Aims low and cheats on an ending, but meanwhile it's a bottom-shelf hoot.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

For horror fans in a forgiving mood, it's an adequate fear fix.

Variety Joe Leydon

Still nothing but a gussied-up B movie.

Chicago Tribune John Petrakis

Contains too little of the original's campy spirit and too many whistles, bells, explosions and screams.

USA Today Staff [Not Credited]

Fun for less than 30 of the 80-minute running time.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

It's all a bit of overkill.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Slow-moving, yawn-inducing remake.

Newsweek Jane Hogan

Everyone in the film is either annoying or unpleasant.

Los Angeles Times Eric Harrison

Soon enough, it becomes clear how much this movie disrespects both the audience and the genre.

The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder

All the special effects in the world cannot compensate for an inability to generate tension, establish and sustain pace or create any character whose survival is worth rooting for.

TNT RoughCut Todd Doogan

Lucky for you, it won't cost a thing to get up and walk out at any point after the credits.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

If your name's on the marquee, chances are your agent's already dead.

Salon.com Sarah Beach

I would rather feed Jesse Helms a rancid peanut butter sandwich, and then have him slowly lick my face off, than sit through House on Haunted Hill again.

The average user rating for this movie is 6.4 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Cody S. gave it a 9:
I loved it because i like scary movies. but it could of been a little scarier.

Josh C. gave it a 9:
The movie rocked! it kept me on my toes the whole time.

Scott M. gave it a 4:
This movie just proves the fact that people aren't making good horror productions like they used to. All they do now is find bad actors, disturbing images, non-stop gore, and a bad ending to make a film. I do think some of it was good like the part when she looks through the camera and finds all those surgeons looking at her. But overall trashy.

Scott M. gave it a 2:
I'm not easy to scare. And this movie didn't scare me but what it did do is make me think of how desperate moviemakers are to get you to be scared. Too much gore and disturbing images but what do you expect from the director of Fear dot com.

Kris R. gave it a 7:
This is an ok movie that really didn't scare me the first time I saw it, but the blood and gore is enough to make you cringe and think "I'm glad that isn't happening to me!" There is only about one thing that bugs me about the film, and that is whenver someone starts clapping slowly and saying "Bravo," which is WAY too overused in the film. I guess the writers ran out of ideas. This is an overall ok movie, with a few surprises, and LOTS of blood and gore, so if you are squeamish, I don't suggest it!!

Jennifer U. gave it a 9:
This movie is the best. It keeps you on your damn toes if you're seening it for the first time. I saw it a while back. When i saw the movie it scared me, made me jump out of my seat. I love horror a lot, when that movie made me jump that is good. The part when is looking for her friend Danny and in the room the pink ghost rattling the cage... that scared me. I just love that movie but it don't top "The Exorcist" black and white version...sorry.

House on Haunted Hill Warner Bros.

House on Haunted Hill
Warner Bros.