While unfortunately starting the whole style over substance mindset that is ruining movies today, I still like this movie for quite a few reasons...
First off, the way in which the visuals are pulled off... along w/ the strange character...
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While unfortunately starting the whole style over substance mindset that is ruining movies today, I still like this movie for quite a few reasons...
First off, the way in which the visuals are pulled off... along w/ the strange character development... make this movie seem dream-like (how much characterization do you have in dreams?)
also, the initial scenes in the theme park (with Spike from Buffy and Lisa Lobe) are pretty cool ...
and finally, I'm a big fan of not only the original movie... but of Dark Castle's earlier movies...

This movie starts off very abruptly and just sort of speeds up what little character development there is so the house scenes get shown.The storyline is absolutely ridiculous which is good because it matches the equally ridiculous attempts at...
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This movie starts off very abruptly and just sort of speeds up what little character development there is so the house scenes get shown.The storyline is absolutely ridiculous which is good because it matches the equally ridiculous attempts at scaring an audience over 6 years of age.There is nothing even remotely scary in this film as the ghosts look very cheap and well nothing like a ghost one of them looks half woman half meal worm.Even the gore isn't enjoyable as this film suffers from Jelly like blood disease which doesn't add to the realism of the movie however the movie has absolutely zero realism at all so i guess the blood effects were just blending in with all the other crappy things about this film.The cast is actually solid i surprisingly had expectations due to Famke Janssen,Geoffery Rush,Ali Larter, and Tae Diggs but the films terrible well everything else ruined any chance of these actors to stand out.This movie is almost exactly like The Haunting (1999)big cast, lots of hype but an equally bad storyline and equally bad special effects.There is nothing terrifying about any CGI generated creature especially the CGI ghost thing in the end what was that supposed to be?Scary?Intense?It was neither just extremely over the top and extremely stupid.This movie has absolutely no scares it tries to have scares but well when the freaky images aren't freaky and the music that's supposed to create suspense creates boredom the movie really is not a horror.This was like watching Clue the whole time i was waiting for someone to say "It was Evelyn in the library with the candlestick" and i would be less than shocked if that was in the script.Overall this piece of garbage should be burned it makes no sense and fits into no genre unless there is one for bad attempt at a mystery/horror.

First off let me say that I really enjoyed the original "House on Haunted Hill." Vincent Price is totally what makes that film in my opinion. With that said I first questioned why remake this film when the best part of the movie couldn't...
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First off let me say that I really enjoyed the original "House on Haunted Hill." Vincent Price is totally what makes that film in my opinion. With that said I first questioned why remake this film when the best part of the movie couldn't be replicated since Mr. Price is no longer with us. Well I think the people involved with the making of this movie realized how import Vincent Price was to the original film and tried their best to bring some aspect of his performance to this remake. They did this by creating a character named Steven Price played by Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush. Now of course Mr. Rush is no Vincent Price but I believe he is the next best thing. Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen and Chris Kattan are what makes this movie bearable and at times enjoyable to watch. With that said any scene without one of these actors is just plain boring. I'm still a little surprised I gave this movie 3 stars, but I had to because unlike the original this movie had three great performances instead of just one. *Note* I gave the original "House on Hunted Hill" 3 and a half stars.