![]() If you remember, Annabelle Loren (Carol Ohmart) was not Frederick’s first wife! My film will be produced under the WILLIAM CASTLE PRODUCTIONS banner.”Ĭastle’s House on Haunted Hill is public domain so you, too, can make your own sequel. excuse me, woman, WIN! I have some of Dad’s original notes for a prequel, and I am running with them. “A prequel penned by Terry Castle! I am about to go out with it! As it turns out, I have ‘House on Haunted Hill’ in my blood… so, let the best man…. “ Funny! I just finished a ‘House on Haunted Hill’ script myself,” Castle tells us the site. The film was followed up by Victor Garcia’s direct-to-video sequel, Return to House on Haunted Hill in 2007.ĭread Central also reports that a second sequel is in the works, this one with Castle’s daughter, Terry, writing the screenplay from Castle’s own notes. The film was remade in 1999 by William Malone, upping the ante to $1 million dollars. House on Haunted Hill is William Castle’s classic 1959 film starring Vincent Price as a millionaire who offers ten thousand dollars to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife. The director goes out of his way to scare the viewer with jump scares and CGI ghosties floating about, but overkill is the order of the day here and as a result the film is a bit of a joke.In a press briefing that revealed writing team Jason Pagan and Andrew Deutschman ( Project Almanac, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension) would be developing Unexplained Phenomenon for Amblin, it also dropped the bomb that the duo are developing a second remake of House on Haunted Hill over at Warner Bros. It's all unbelievable, unremarkable, and quite uninteresting. Instead, the film offers endless scenes of CGI-augmented gore to the viewer bodies are pulverised, ripped limb from limb, and people have their faces cut off. Evil doctor ghost Jeffrey Combs is the only cast member to return from the original, but he only has a scene or two. The plot is entirely negligible here except to offer a group of unlikeable characters trapped and wandering around a single location. This one is even further away from the fun spirit of the Vincent Price original than the first film was. RETURN TO HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL sees a group of disparate types holing up in a haunted mansion one night, hoping to claim a jackpot but falling foul of the usual malignant spirit forces. ![]() Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 4 / 10 Pointless sequel.Īnother Dark Castle production, this time a sequel to a remake that nobody asked for in the first place. Simply skip it and go back and see the original 1959 version which may be campy and unintentionally funny but it's at least entertaining. The film doesn't have any motivation other than to gross-out the viewer, and with nothing a value, it isn't even worth using as a hot drink coaster. It doesn't have anything that you haven't seen in a mockbuster made by the hideous direct-to-video movie studio Asylum, and watching this makes you wish you were in one to where you didn't have access to horrible movies like this. This film doesn't last much more than an hour and even then, it is difficult and all of the characters just makes you hate it all the more. But is it really worth the waste of your not your time? That question is in the eye of the viewer, and I try to give a film at least an hour before I decide if I want to proceed towards that conclusion. This long unneeded sequel is 10 times as bad, filled with lousy acting and characters so deserving I'm being pushed into the vat of acid from the original film that you feel you might want to stick around you just to see it. I saw the remix when it first was released on video, and found it disturbingly gross and pointless and filled with anger. You can have all the CGI effects you want and ear busting sound effects, but if you don't have a decent script or likable characters, you don't have a film and in the case of this direct-to-video sequel to a 1999 pointless remake of a classic horror film, what you get is a film that is easy to hate from the very start. ![]() Reviewed by mark.waltz 2 / 10 By the time each of the characters say their first line, you're hoping they all die violently. Now, the terror begins when the doomed Return to House on Haunted Hill -Anonymous Years later, several more people risk their lives in search of a cursed statue of Baphomet, a relic worth millions that will come at the cost of their souls. ![]() ![]() What began as an evening of fun a harmless scares in exchange for one million dollars to anyone who stayed the night-and survived-soon turned into a night of terror. It started when five people agreed to spend one night in a haunted house. ![]()
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