He figures that the only way to get out is to go to the attic and try to escape through there. Price runs through the hall while Sara and Eddie follow. Pritchett investigates, and The Darkness kills him while Price temporarily evades it.
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Upstairs, Pritchett, Eddie and Sara are trying to open one of the iron gates on the windows when they hear Price's screams from down the hall. The Darkness reveals that the souls that comprise it want to feed on all those "who are responsible". It starts by assimilating and corroding Evelyn into itself, killing her while Price watches in horror. The Darkness is a dark, shape-shifting creature composed of the spirits in the house this force pursues and tries to kill the remaining guests. The two scuffle and accidentally unleash the Darkness of the house when Price throws Evelyn through a decayed door.
After the others return upstairs, Evelyn approaches Steven to gloat, and Steven, protected by a bullet-proof vest, attempts to kill Evelyn. Sara comes across an incoherent Price in the basement, and believing that he is Blackburn's murderer, shoots him when he approaches her. Evelyn then kills Blackburn and uses his body to frame Price. It is also revealed that Evelyn and Blackburn are working together to scare the other guests into killing Steven. It's revealed that the spirits themselves created the guest list specifically to include the descendants of the five members of Vannacutt's staff who didn't die in the 1931 fire. Shortly after, Melissa is killed by one of the ghosts when she wanders off into the basement of the house. Schecter claims it wasn't him who triggered the lockdown, and Price is then convinced that Evelyn did it somehow.
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Price scolds Carl Schecter ( Max Perlich), a company employee - who has developed a series of harmless traps to scare the guests - for not letting him know he planned to pull a stunt like that. Shortly afterward, the security gates are tripped, locking everyone inside and forcing them to remain there until the gates unlock in the morning. Despite this, Price continues the party's theme, offering $1 million to each one who stays in the house and survives until morning, with any person not making it having his money added to the pot. Neither Evelyn nor Steven know who they are. Blackburn ( Peter Gallagher), and Pritchett himself - aren't the ones he invited. The five people who show up for the party - Jennifer Janzen (actually Sara Wolfe) ( Ali Larter), Eddie Baker ( Taye Diggs), Melissa Margaret Marr ( Bridgette Wilson), Dr. Evelyn gives Steven a guest list two pages long he shreds it to spite her and then creates one of his own. Evelyn fancies spectacular parties, and Steven leases the house from the owner, Watson Pritchett ( Chris Kattan), for Evelyn's Halloween birthday bash. Price ( Geoffrey Rush), an amusement park mogul with a wicked sense of humor, each of whom would gladly kill the other. After several unexplained deaths during reconstruction of the facility, it was dubbed "The House on Haunted Hill".Įvelyn Stockard-Price ( Famke Janssen), a spoiled trophy wife, is in a disintegrating marriage with Steven H. During the fire, he released these gates, keeping the inmates, employees and the fire itself contained. Vannacutt had rigged the building with numerous iron gates, activated by cranks and levers, to serve as barriers to keep patients from leaving the building, should they escape some of these were controlled by huge, clock-like timers that wouldn't open for twelve hours.
All the patients died, their souls rumored to be trapped there forever. The hospital was closed in 1931 after the patients escaped from their cells, killing almost the entire staff (all except five) and burning the hospital. Vannacutt ( Jeffrey Combs), performed grotesque experiments and medical procedures on the patients, killing many in the process. The film is set in an abandoned asylum, the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane, where numerous murders were committed in the past, mainly the 1920s. The film was followed by a sequel, Return to House on Haunted Hill, which was released in both rated and unrated editions on DVD in 2007. House on Haunted Hill marks the producing debut of Dark Castle Entertainment, a production company that went on to produce Thirteen Ghosts and House of Wax, two films which were also remakes. Produced by Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver, it is a remake of the 1959 film of the same name directed by William Castle. It also includes a cameo appearance by Peter Graves. House on Haunted Hill is a 1999 American horror film, directed by William Malone and starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter and Jeffrey Combs.
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