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House On Haunted Hill (1999 Movie)House on Haunted Hill is a 1999 Warner Brothers horror movie, directed by William Malone, written by Dick Beebe and starring Geoffrey Rush and Famke Janssen. The producers are Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver. It is a remake of the 1959 classic of the same name directed by William Castle. Made for around $20 million, the R-rated movie was mauled by the critics but grossed $15 million on its opening weekend and went on to earn over $40 million. The films premise is a group of people are invited to spend a night at a 'haunted house' in exchange for money ($10,000 in 1959, $1,000,000 in 1999). Unlike the original the remake is more of a shocker, it is very reliant on plot twists and special effects - notably computer generated sequences - rather than the low key build-up of the original. The film sets the action in an abandoned asylum, the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane, where some nasty experiments were undertaken in the past. Five people are invited to attend the birthday party of the wife (Janssen) of billionaire Steven Price (Rush, the original inviter was played by Vincent Price and Price shares a name and some visual similarities with Vincent). Rather than the expected guests five complete strangers arrive (Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Peter Gallagher, Chris Kattan), despite this Price continues the party theme, a million dollars for anyone who stays for the night. He has rigged the building with his own equipment, but things quickly move beyond the limits of his 'toys' - trapping all seven of them in the building. Compare with The Haunting, another 1999 remake of a similar classic from 1963, based on the novel The Haunting of Hill House.
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