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so here is the second of 1999's remakes of classic horror movies .
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the first was the dumb , pathetic but ok remake of the classic 'the haunting' .
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now comes the highly awaited remake of house on haunted hill .
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the classic which starred vincent price as a man who pays a group of people 100 , 000 to stay in his house .
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if they survive the night they get the money .
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if not well you get the jurisdiction .
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having not yet seen the film ( dvd on its way ) i wasn't sure if i would really like the remake .
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but sure enough it comes through and has a great storyline to fall back on .
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geoffrey rush ( in a fantastic role with an incredible performance ) is steven price , the owner of an amusement park destined to scare the wits out of people .
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his wife evelyn price is throwing a party with her friends .
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steven dismays at the idea and makes his own list .
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somehow someone , or something changes that list and five other people are invited to the party .
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eddie ( taye diggs ) an ex-baseball player , sarah ( ali carter ) an ex-assistant who can re-wire anything , melissa ( brigette wilson ) a talk-show host in sorts , dr . blackburn ( peter ghallager ) , and watson ( chris kattan ) a smart-mouthed humorist in ways .
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what he is gonna do is pay these five people 1 , 000 , 000 dollars if they can survive through the night .
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if they can they get the money , if not well they don't .
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the house on haunted hill used to be an insane asylum .
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years before mental patients broke out and killed the dr . there , forcing him to lock the place up because if he died , so did they .
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everyone who was in there burned to death .
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now it is steven price's home and he is throwing this party for these five people .
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what starts out as a seemingly normal night , turns into a horrifying , blood splattering night .
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the deep dark secrets of what really happened in that asylum and why those guests are actually there are revealed .
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one-by-one the people start to disappear .
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conspiracies start to turn up , and steven price finds out that his house may be alive after all .
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the people find rooms , which once held mental patients .
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rooms which once had people dying .
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rooms which may still contain these people .
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now these five people must try and survive the night and try and survive the house , and they must survive each other with terrorfying results .
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since i officially haven't seen the original i can't say which is better .
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i can say however i liked this movie .
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geoffrey rush gives a one in a million performance as the rich steven price , and does a great job doing a vincent price role .
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famke jansen as his wife was great and even kind of eerie at times .
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ali carter and taye diggs sort of become the main characters and ali carter who debuted in varsity blues gives a fantastic performance here as does taye diggs .
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chris kattan gives us great comic relief and the movie contains a lot of comical lines .
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peter ghallager and brigette wilson were great as well and gave commanding performances as potential victims .
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the plot was well conceived and was very absorbing .
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the movie has atmosphere the whole way through that is disturbing and creepy , and even sometimes downright scary .
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i found even the opening credits to me a little ominous .
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one thing i knew not to expect was a 'haunting' type movie with special effects galore .
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even though it had fantastic gore and special effects , the movie has only a 19 million dollar budget , which doesn's show all the way through but you can tell .
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the movie was written well , and it's only major flaw is the under-developed characters and plot holes that we are left with .
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the ending is quite clever and some may not even get it .
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i must say house on haunted hill was a surprise .
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i was expecting another haunting with special effects , no scares and a dumb ending .
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instead i found a good halloween movie with gore , scares and great acting .
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house on haunted hill is one of those movies you really can't take seriously .
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though it is a well-made movie with a good storyline it still has some flaws .
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but besides that the movie is fun , smart and scary and makes us wonder why remakes like this can't be made all the time !
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