First of all....I liked it. Even though there has not been any talk of a sequel to the new movie "House on Haunted Hill", the audience should prepare themselves that in the year 2015, you may be attending the local theater to see "House on Haunted Hill #15...Revenge of the Remodeled Home". "House on Haunted Hill" does not have an all-star cast, nor does it have all those flashy special effects, but it does have the ability to throw a few curves your way. In one scene, I actually had the hair on the back of my neck stand up, and in another I enjoyed a quick knee reflex that allowed me to kick the seat in front of me (thus enhancing the movie's frightful effect on the person sitting straight ahead.) Geoffrey Rush, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher, Famke Janssen all put forth great performances to make this a well-done film. I was sold on the film the moment I saw the scene (which also appears in the trailers) of the woman videotaping around the haunted house and discovers in her camera's viewer a room full of ghosts performing an operation, she then lowers the camera, looks with her own eyes, sees the room is empty, and then looks back through the camera and now sees a room full of angry ghosts staring back, and yes you guessed it, this is when the hair on my neck stood up. Some of you may remember an old Don Knotts' film, "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken", in which Don is challenged to spend a frightful evening in an old haunted house, he accepts the challenge only to be forced from the house in the middle of the night. This film, has a similar concept and a few good laughs, but the difference is that this house won't let you leave even if you want to. So I would think this movie is more like Don Knotts staying over at "Amityville". You have a touch of humor, a few special effects, a few scenes in which you close your eyes, and an ending which leaves you "hanging" with the feeling that this isn't the last time you will visit this house. Bottom line...do you really suppose there are people out there who truly would stay overnight in any situation that involves ghosts or haunted places? Because while I like to think that I would be up for a good challenge....I also know that if I couldn't have done what Don Knotts did, I surely wouldn't be able to stay a night at the "House on Haunted Hill".s
Review of House on Haunted Hill
