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Year One
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House on Haunted Hill
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 17 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 15 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Horror
Written by:
Dick Beebe
Robb White (also story)
Directed by: William Malone
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 29, 1999
DVD: April 18, 2000
Running Time: 96 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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.)
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What The Critics Said
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Trash, but always just a little creepier than you expect.
Read Full Review >Film.com Tom Keogh
The effects never really get ahead of the characters or the script's layered personality.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
The kind of horror movie that's not a bit scary and quite a bit gross.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune John Petrakis
Contains too little of the original's campy spirit and too many whistles, bells, explosions and screams.
Read Full Review >USA Today Staff [Not Credited]
Fun for less than 30 of the 80-minute running time.
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.7 (out of 10) based on 15 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.
