It seems there are ghosts haunting the facility, and they are eager to take out their wrath on the visitors, but there is also something darker lurking in the asylum… and it may find its way out, and seek its own vengeance. Some one/thing changes the guest list, and a group of strangers join the dangerous party, Eddie (Taye Diggs), Sara (Ali Larter), Blackburn (Peter Gallagher), Melissa (Bridgette Wilson) and the property’s keeper, Pritchett (Chris Kattan).Īll the typical tropes are played out, separation of the characters, predictable jump scares, and desired moments that don’t happen.
The concept itself is fun enough, an amusement park mogul, Stephen Price (Geoffrey Rush – with his best Vincent Price mustache) who is keen to always frighten and titillate his audience, whether it’s with a new coaster, or scare tactic has organized a birthday party for his wife, Evelyn (Famke Janssen) at the site of a horrifying slaughter, a closed down insane asylum… the house on Haunted Hill. I’m not sure how this title, a remake of the classic 1959 William Castle film ended up in the zombie chapter of DK Canada’s Monsters in the Movies book, as having just sat through this one, I don’t recall any zombies, or living dead.