Rotten
Despite a nice twist at the end and at least one deliciously demonic over-the-top performance, it's about as scary as The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" episode.
Cary Darling, Dallas Morning News
Overview
A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
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Regrettably, Scott the director is better than Scott the writer - the script is standard-issue, by the numbers, with no sense of character development.
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
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