A remake of the 1959 film of the same name. A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
House on Haunted Hill is a sorry reincarnation of the 1950s William Castle horror film.
– Lawrence Van Gelder,
New York Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
A bloody mess.
– Steve Murray,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
As in The Haunting, they eventually surrender characters and story to computer-generated spectacle, squandering any creepy immediacy and trampling the human element.
– Bruce Westbrook,
Houston Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
House on Haunted Hill is the kind of horror movie that's not a bit scary and quite a bit gross.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Consistently inert -- even though the fee for successful housesitting has been raised to a million bucks a night.