9/23/2023 0 Comments New house on haunted hillIn the film, a group of seemingly unrelated guests try to win a million bucks by surviving a night in an abandoned asylum. Need a refresher? Here’s one of the early scares: From the way it looked to the way it sounded, everything (well, almost everything) just clicked. The result was a horror movie that let you in on the joke, but never lost sight of what it was there for. ![]() ![]() The film never took itself seriously… except when it needed to. The remake of William Castle’s 1959 film was one of the few times that “tongue-in-cheek horror” worked perfectly for me. Too many people focus on its admittedly dopey ending, and forget that the ride leading up to it was so much fun. I wonder if that’s why I have such fond memories of it? A stone’s throw from the last Halloween of the ‘90s. ![]() I saw House on Haunted Hill on its opening night – October 29 th, 1999.
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