Rotten
Consistently inert -- even though the fee for successful housesitting has been raised to a million bucks a night.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
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House on Haunted Hill
Overview
An amusement park mogul offers a random group of diverse people $1 million to spend the night in a decrepit former mental institution.
Director and cast
- William Malone Director
- Geoffrey Rush as Stephen H. Price
- Famke Janssen as Evelyn Stockard-Price
- Ali Larter as Sara Wolfe
- Taye Diggs as Eddie Baker
- Chris Kattan as Watson Pritchett
- Peter Gallagher as Donald W. Blackburn, M.D.
- Bridgette Wilson as Melissa Margaret Marr
- Max Perlich as Carl Schecter
- Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Richard Benjamin Vannacutt
- Dick Beebe Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
31%
Tomatometer
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
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
Rotten
A bloody mess.
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rotten
House on Haunted Hill is a sorry reincarnation of the 1950s William Castle horror film.
Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times
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