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House on Haunted Hill

  • 1999
  • R
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
5.6/10
64K
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Geoffrey Rush, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Chris Kattan, and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras in House on Haunted Hill (1999)
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An amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.An amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.An amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.

  • Director
    • William Malone
  • Writers
    • Robb White
    • Dick Beebe
  • Stars
    • Geoffrey Rush
    • Famke Janssen
    • Taye Diggs
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • IMDb RATING
    5.6/10
    64K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    3,423
    382
    • Director
      • William Malone
    • Writers
      • Robb White
      • Dick Beebe
    • Stars
      • Geoffrey Rush
      • Famke Janssen
      • Taye Diggs
    • 609User reviews
    • 140Critic reviews
    • 28Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 4 nominations total

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    Top Cast23

    Geoffrey Rush
    Geoffrey Rush
    • Stephen Price
    Famke Janssen
    Famke Janssen
    • Evelyn
    Taye Diggs
    Taye Diggs
    • Eddie
    Peter Gallagher
    Peter Gallagher
    • Blackburn
    Chris Kattan
    Chris Kattan
    • Pritchett
    Ali Larter
    Ali Larter
    • Sara
    Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
    Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
    • Melissa Marr
    • (as Bridgette Wilson)
    Max Perlich
    Max Perlich
    • Schecter
    Jeffrey Combs
    Jeffrey Combs
    • Dr. Vannacutt
    Dick Beebe
    • Male Nurse
    Slavitza Jovan
    • Twisted Nurse
    Lisa Loeb
    Lisa Loeb
    • Channel 3 Reporter
    James Marsters
    James Marsters
    • Channel 3 Cameraman
    Jeannette Lewis
    • Price's Secretary
    Janet Tracy Keijser
    Janet Tracy Keijser
    • Girl on Wires
    Peter Graves
    Peter Graves
    • Peter Graves
    Bruno Angelico
    • Patient
    • (uncredited)
    Carrie Lauren
    Carrie Lauren
    • Theme Park Guest
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • William Malone
    • Writers
      • Robb White
      • Dick Beebe
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Geoffrey Rush was never meant to look like Vincent Price (star of the original film House on Haunted Hill (1959)). The original screenplay described Stephen Price as a regular looking businessman. Rush didn't care for this, so he suggested that his character look like the film director John Waters. The director agreed to test this look out. After his transformation, he ended up looking so much like Vincent Price the director decided to keep the look.
    • Goofs
      Some of the warnings in the basement are in very bad German - it seems somebody just used a dictionary and translated the English lines word-for-word. For example, one sign has the phrase "Steh zurück!" which means something like "Stay back!". A correct translation would be "Zurückbleiben" or in this context "Eintritt verboten" ("No admittance").
    • Quotes
      • Pritchett: [walking slowly to Sara] You don't... get it... do you? This house is pissed. It has no morals, 'cause it's a fucking *house*!
    • Crazy credits
      After the final credits, there is an additional scene that features Steven and Evelyn strapped down on Vannacut's vivisection table. The scene ends with Vannacut watching as one hears Steven and Evelyn's screams.
    • Alternate versions
      Due to numerous circumstances (i.e. running time constraints and what not) a great deal of footage was excised from this motion picture. Three of the most important scenes were returned for the DVD release. They are:
      • two different versions of the same scene involving the real Jennifer Jenzen (Debi Mazar), a haughty, foul mouthed, arrogant movie producer and her assistant Sara (Ali Larter), who are on the set of a cheap drama Jennifer is producing. In one version, the set is in the courtyard of a regular house where a woman is telling a man, who is suffering from a seemingly terminal illness, to embrace life in spite of his condition. In the other version, a young couple, who seem to be medieval peasants, are frolicking on a meadow, falling to the ground and making out. In both versions, unhappy with the lack of sex and nudity in the film that could bring in the teen male audience, Jennifer curses the director out. Sara then arrives with a strange Art Deco music puzzle box that came in the mail for Jennifer. Despite Sara's advice and a warning label on the box, Jennifer arrogantly opens it the wrong way just because she was told not to, and cuts her finger on it. Sara laughs at this so vengeful Jennifer fires her on the spot and gives her the box to get rid of it. Sara however, finds the invite for the party on Haunted Hill in the box, and, although shocked by Jennifer's impromptu decision to fire her, she still tries to tell Jennifer about it, but when Jennifer refuses to hear her out, Sara just takes the invitation for herself and leaves, smiling.
      • a scene towards the climax when Eddie Baker (Taye Diggs) and Sara are running from the shadow demon exploding the floorboards, they are led into a dead end. Eddie jumps onto a hanging light fixture, holding onto Sara as the floor beneath them explodes. He loses his grip on Sara and she falls through the hole into a subterranean cavern beneath the house where the remains of Doctor Vannicut's victims lie. The shadow creeps into the cavern and reanimates the dead bodies causing this huge zombie attack. Eddie drops down and saves Sara and the chase continues from where it left off in the finished cut of the film (however, if you notice, in the finished cut of the film during the chase scene there is a continuity error when Sara's running. In one shot she's wearing her jacket and in the other it's mysteriously vanished, it's vanished because during the cut portion of this climactic chase, Sara loses her jacket when she falls into the cavern. Her jacket is then used by Eddie to pull her up and out to safety).
      • an epilogue was also cut from the film involving the real Jennifer Jenzen (Debbie Mazar) inheriting the house on haunted hill. When she goes to check it out with real estate agent Dick (played by Jeffrey Combs (who is also Dr. Vannicut!) we see her enter the house and then a horrifying scream follows. The scene was cut because director William Malone felt the scene was a bit too humorous for the film and that it did not fit what was filmed at all).
    • Connections
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    • Soundtracks
      Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
      Written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart
      Performed by Marilyn Manson
      Courtesy of Nothing/Interscope Records
      Under License from Universal Music Special Markets

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    Details

    • Release date
      • October 29, 1999 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Warner Bros.
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La residencia del mal
    • Filming locations
      • Griffith Observatory - 2800 E Observatory Rd, Los Angeles, California, USA(House on Haunted Hill entrance)
    • Production company
      • Dark Castle Entertainment
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    Box office

    • Budget
      • $37,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $40,846,082
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $15,946,032
      • Oct 31, 1999
    • Gross worldwide
      • $42,593,455
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Tech specs

    • Runtime
      • 1h 33m(93 min)
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1(original ratio, open matte)

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