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House on Haunted Hill (1999)

House on Haunted Hill is a special effects laden remake of a 1958 film of the same name.  Five people are invited to a birthday party for the wife of an amusement park mogul.  They have no idea why they of all people were invited since they neither know the host or his wife.  A sixth man takes them to the house where the party will be, an old unused mental institution with a darker past than most asylums could ever claim to have.  The guests are told that if they can spend the entire night in the building then they will receive one million dollars each.  However to get the money they cannot leave, and they must survive the night in the very haunted place.  In the event of a person's death that person's one million will be divided between the rest.

This film is a really nice piece of eye candy.  The special effects are spectacular and mixed with the plot, the pacing, and the musical score makes for a good horror movie.  The acting isn't bad and there are not too many gaps in the logic of the film.  Even the build up to the actually haunted house part (if one can call such a tall building a house) is really fun to watch as the party's host shows a couple of TV News people around his newest roller coaster.  The film is maybe a little too heavy in spots with the supernatural stuff going on.   The place is kind of over haunted to an extent and cuts away some from the real scares by desensitising the audience.  There was one special effect that was not as good as it could have been;  the shadow/smoke creature. It was too symmetrical despite its otherwise organic look, which made it sort of distracting.  Still it is a good movie and I would certainly see it again.  (The extras on the DVD sound really good, although I watched it on VHS.)

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