House on Haunted Hill (1999)

Eccentric amusement park mogul Geoffrey Rush invites six random people to a former psychiatric institution to celebrate his wife Famke Janssen’s birthday. As an enticement, each guest is offered one million dollars if they manage to spend the entire night in the allegedly haunted building. A remake of the 1959 same titled film, Rush does his best to fill in for the unparalleled Vincent Price. His snarky interactions with Janssen are the best part of the film. This version accentuates the supernatural aspects of the story to its detriment. The CGI at the time does not hold up to what is being attempted and it builds to more and more silliness. The cast is filled with a bunch of beautiful, but forgettable, interchangeable characters, especially in the case of similar looking Ali Larter and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras who I spent more time than I should have trying to figure out which one was which.