The House on Haunted Hill (1999)

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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Rating: R
Release Date: Oct 29, 1999
Running Time: 96 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Unspeakable things happened at the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane- experiments that brought human torture to new depths of depravity... secrets that died with their victims and the practioners of the demonic acts that masqueraded as medicine. Now there are no living witnesses. Nothing survived Dr. Vannacutt's excesses; nothing endures except the building in which they occurred. But that building holds all the secrets of its terrible past. Decades after the Vannacutt Institute was shuttered, five strangers are invited to spend a night there. Their reward is a million dollars each. All they have to do is stay alive. It's going to be a long night.
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Steven Price
Evelyn Price
Eddie
Sara Wolfe
Blackburn
Watson Pritchett
Schecter
Dr Vannacutt
Male Nurse
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''House on Haunted Hill'' is frightening.

It's frightening how unscary a film can be about five people who spend a night in a spooky abandoned psychiatric institute. Considering its R rating (unlike its similarly titled predecessor, ''The Haunting,'' which languished this summer with a PG-13), this film should have been scarier. A lot scarier. Unfortunately, its expanded license to chill and thrill falls flat on cartoonish performances and second-rate special effects, pulled together by a… Continued