House on Haunted Hill
The 1958 Vincent Price horror film, and the 1999 re-make starring
Geoffrey Rush
"Everybody say it: 'One Meeee-llion Dollars!' (sorry, couldn't resist...).
In the 1958 William
Castle production of House On Haunted Hill, Vincent
Price starred as eccentric millionaire Frederick Loren, who offered
$ 10,000 to the person who could spend the night in the title house
where a series of gruesome murders had been committed." [More ]
"The William Malone directed remake of House on Haunted Hill
retains the basic premise (even the little coffins with the pistols
inside!), except for a few changes: millionaire Loren (Geoffrey Rush)
has become BILLIONAIRE "Mr. Price" (a nice touch), an inventor of amusement
park attractions. When his socialite wife Evelyn (Famke Jansen)
wishes that her birthday party be held at a genuine "haunted house",
she draws up a list of friends, which her husband changes to spite her."
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"In proud William Castle tradition, House On Haunted Hill
thumbs its severed, maggot-infested nose at the cozy conventions of
modern Middle Of The Road film "quality" ("This one has Oscar® written
all over it!", as the ads usually go), and gleefully revels in the cheapest
of shocks and one-liners, and never misses an opportunity to punctuate
a subtle, moody image with one of complete disgust. It's also frequently
witty, honestly scary, and visually inventive..." [More ]
House on Haunted Hill posters for both the 1958 and 1999 movie releases,
plus photos from the 1999 version of the film.[More ]
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