Return to House on Haunted Hill
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| Directed by | Víctor García |
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| Produced by | Joel Silver Robert Zemeckis |
| Written by | William Massa |
| Starring | Amanda Righetti Erik Palladino Cerina Vincent Tom Riley Andrew Lee Potts Steven Pacey Jeffrey Combs |
| Music by | Frederik Wiedmann |
| Cinematography | Lorenzo Senatore |
| Editing by | Robert Malina |
| Studio | Warner Premiere Dark Castle Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | House on Haunted Hill |
Return to House on Haunted Hill, directed by Víctor García, is the 2007 sequel to the 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill.
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[edit] Plot
Ariel Wolfe (Amanda Righetti), the editor of a fashion magazine, receives many calls from her sister Sara, the protagonist of the first film, but she doesn't return them. When Sara is found dead, Ariel goes to her apartment with her friend and photographer Paul (Tom Riley). She meets Professor Richard Hammer (Steven Pacey), who's looking for Sara's journal to find a lead to the statue of Baphomet for a museum. Later, Ariel and Paul are kidnapped by a gang of treasure hunters led by Desmond Niles (Erik Palladino), who means to find the statue and sell it to a private collector for five million dollars. They go to the house, where they meet Richard, his assistant Kyle (Andrew-Lee Potts) and his student Michelle (Cerina Vincent), but the criminals dominate the group. Suddenly, the house closes all the exits and they find that they're trapped inside with ghosts who are reliving their final tortured moments in the place they died. They all start to die one by one until Ariel and Paul find and take the statue of the house.
[edit] Production
Filming began in Burgas & Sofia, Bulgaria at the Nu Boyana Film Studios on September 11, 2006, where they used various sets and an old bathhouse in Ovcha kupel as substitute locations for the house in the 1999 remake.[citation needed]
Jeffrey Combs reprised his role as Dr. Richard Vannacutt. He stated that he'd have a larger role in this film, and while he had no lines (as in the first film), it made his character "more menacing"; however, he did do some voice-overs after initial filming (these ended up in an alternate scene in the Blu-Ray version[citation needed]). He also said that much of the movie takes place in the lower floors of the house.
[edit] Cast
- Amanda Righetti - Ariel Wolfe
- Cerina Vincent - Michelle
- Erik Palladino - Desmond Niles
- Tom Riley - Paul
- Andrew Lee Potts - Kyle
- Jeffrey Combs - Dr. Richard B. Vannacutt
- Steven Pacey - Richard Hammer
- Kalita Rainford - Harue
- Gil Kolirin - Norris Boz
- Andrew Pleavin - Samuel
- Chucky Venice - Warren Jackson
- Tatina De Marinis - Ariel's Assistant
- Stilyana Mitkova - Sara Wolfe/Ghost
- George Zlatarev - Lead Inmate Host
- Laia Gonzàlez - Nurse Ghost
- Geniva Lorentosa - Naked Beach Model #1
- Oksana Borbat - Beautiful Woman Ghost #1
- Xeniya Fesenko - Beautiful Woman Ghost #2
- Nikolav Iliev - Man on Beach
- Zhasmina Toskova - Woman on Beach
[edit] Soundtrack
[edit] Releases
It was revealed soon after shooting ended that the DVD would be released on September 27, 2007 for North America and on October 3 for Australia; however, Dark Castle Entertainment pushed the release dates to October 16, 2007 and October 10, 2007 for North America and Australia, respectively. For North America, there will be both rated and unrated releases; the "rated" is rated R for strong bloody horror violence, language and brief sexuality/nudity, but the extra content on the "unrated" and other discs means it will go unrated. The Australian version of the film is the same as the US unrated version.[citation needed]
The rated release doesn't include the epilogue scene (after the closing credits) or Mushroomhead's music video; the unrated release includes both.[citation needed]
There will also be unrated Blu-Ray and HD DVD versions, both including Navigational Cinema, a feature that enables viewers to interact with the storyline- at certain points, it allows you to choose from two different paths. A total of seven viewer choices result in 96 possible storylines, according to Joel Silver in a "Return to House on Haunted Hill" online featurette. In another interview, Silver announced the film will have four alternate endings, which are the result of the different choices made during the film.[citation needed]
[edit] External links
- Return to House on Haunted Hill Official Site
- Return to House on Haunted Hill MySpace page
- Return to House on Haunted Hill at the Internet Movie Database
- Return to House on Haunted Hill Clips
- Detailed Comparison between R-Rated and Unrated Version
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