Evelyn gives Steven a guest list two pages long he shreds it to spite her and then creates one of his own. Evelyn fancies spectacular parties, and Steven leases the house from the owner, Watson Pritchett ( Chris Kattan), for Evelyn's Halloween birthday bash. Price ( Geoffrey Rush), an amusement park mogul with a wicked sense of humor, each of whom would gladly kill the other. After several unexplained deaths during reconstruction of the facility, it was dubbed 'The House on Haunted Hill'.Įvelyn Stockard-Price ( Famke Janssen), a spoiled trophy wife, is in a disintegrating marriage with Steven H. During the fire, he released these gates, keeping the inmates, employees and the fire itself contained. Vannacutt had rigged the building with numerous iron gates, activated by cranks and levers, to serve as barriers to keep patients from leaving the building, should they escape some of these were controlled by huge, clock-like timers that wouldn't open for twelve hours. All the patients died, their souls rumored to be trapped there forever.

The hospital was closed in 1931 after the patients escaped from their cells, killing almost the entire staff (all except five) and burning the hospital. Vannacutt ( Jeffrey Combs), performed grotesque experiments and medical procedures on the patients, killing many in the process. The film is set in an abandoned asylum, the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane, where numerous murders were committed in the past, mainly the 1920s. The film was followed by a sequel, Return to House on Haunted Hill, which was released in both rated and unrated editions on DVD in 2007. House on Haunted Hill marks the producing debut of Dark Castle Entertainment, a production company that went on to produce Thirteen Ghosts and House of Wax, two films which were also remakes. Produced by Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver, it is a remake of the 1959 film of the same name directed by William Castle. It also includes a cameo appearance by Peter Graves.

House on Haunted Hill is a 1999 American horror film, directed by William Malone and starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter and Jeffrey Combs.

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