House On Haunted Hill. 1999.
A billionaire offers 5 strangers $1 million to spend the night in a building with a horrifying past.
William Malone's remake of the William Castle film, with Geoffrey Rush playing the rich man with a super spoilt bitchy wife Famke Janssen, Pro baseball player Taye Diggs, film exec Ali Larter, tv celeb Bridgette Wilson, Doctor Peter Gallagher and housekeeper Chris Kattan.
Kattan's performance is good and doesn't match up to Elijah Cook's portrayal of Pritchett but in this version he is more scared of the building, yeah original was a house this version is a asylum on the top of the hill. The original is a classic and always a favourite for the dark atmosphere but slight twist to the end, where as this is a haunted house/building. It does include the dark muggy atmosphere within the bowels of the building and good attempt to bring the evil to the screen. When this first came out I was hesitant but after a first watch I totally loved this remake.
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