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New Century of Cinema
DOWSE Guide to the
Movies
by Tony Lee editor of
Pigasus
Press
The House On Haunted Hill
Director: William Malone
89 minutess (18) Warner
review by Dawn Andrews
Another horror remake, as with The Haunting, that completely fails to produce
any of the original's charm or ability to shock. Not only that, but I must ask the
question, how can something be a remake when the plot is completely different? Am I
missing something here? Compared to this offering the remake of The Haunting was
sheer class. In an old lunatic asylum a collection of unlovable and completely
uninteresting mugs gather - to make money, what else? - By lasting out the night of
fun, frolics and gore with their charmless and, it must be said, witless, host and
hostess. The hostess, Famke Janssen, tries to make up for the truly leaden marital
discord subplot by revealing as much cleavage as possible at all times, but even that
cannot hold the attention, and as cleavage goes, is not a patch on Hammer horror yarns.
Vincent Price, in the original, made up for the rather silly effects and plot with
radiant wit and his own brand of debonair irony - Geoffrey Rush seems to think that
all he has to do is mimic a superficial parody to do the same. Think again, Geoff.
Awful, and awfully boring.
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