Return to House on Haunted Hill

Return to House on Haunted Hill
Directed by	Víctor García
Written by	William Massa
Produced by	Joel Silver Robert Zemeckis
Starring	Amanda Righetti Erik Palladino Cerina Vincent Tom Riley Andrew Lee Potts Steven Pacey and Jeffrey Combs
Music by	Frederik Wiedmann
Country	United States of America
Language	English

Return to House on Haunted Hill, directed by Víctor García, is the 2007 sequel to the 1999 remake House on Haunted Hill.

Production

Filming began in Burgas & Sofia, Bulgaria on September 11, 2006, where they used various sets and an old bathhouse as locations that substituted the house in the 1999 remake.

Jeffrey Combs will reprise his role as Dr. Richard B. Vannacutt. He has stated that he will have a larger role in this film, and whilst he has no lines, this will make his character "more menacing". He then went on to say that much of the film will be in the lower floors of the house. Combs did however, do voice-overs after the initial filming.

Plot

The legacy of terror at the House on Haunted Hill began in 1931 when sadistic doctor Richard Vannacutt and his staff died in a fiery inferno caused by a patient uprising at his hilltop asylum. Rumors persist for decades that the building is haunted by the spirits of those who died there. The horror continues when Billionaire Theme Park Mogul Steven Price and his guests are gruesomely slaughtered at a party in the refurbished mansion in 1999. Though the authorities blame Price for the murders, survivor Sarah Wolfe claims that ghosts were responsible for the brutal deaths.

Eight years later, Sara’s sister, Ariel Wolfe, is a successful editor at a men’s fashion magazine. Her hectic schedule leaves no time for a personal life, let alone her family. Ariel is distraught when she learns from police that Sara has killed herself. However not all the facts add up, and she begins to suspect there was more to Sarah’s death – and that her sister was trying to contact her before she died. Ariel’s fears are confirmed when she receives a strange book in the mail, sent by Sarah shortly before her apparent suicide.

Archeologist Richard Hammer reveals that the book is in fact the diary of Vannacutt, the cruel doctor who ran the hill house asylum. Sara had been helping Richard decode the diary, hoping that its passages would lead to the location of the ancient Baphomet idol, an occult demonic statue hidden somewhere inside the house. Sarah believed that the idol was the source of the house’s evil. Richard and his team, grad students Michelle and Kyle, plan to enter the house and search for the idol.

Ariel wants no part of it, but soon becomes ensnared in the macabre treasure hunt when she is kidnapped and taken to the Vannacutt mansion by Desmond Niles and his mercenaries, who are also after the priceless idol.

However, once inside they become trapped, and Ariel and the others come face to face with the terror that dwells within the House on Haunted Hill.

Cast

• Amanda Righetti - Ariel Wolfe

• Erik Palladino - Desmond Niles

• Cerina Vincent - Michelle

• Tom Riley - Paul

• Andrew Lee Potts - Kyle

• Steven Pacey - Richard Hammer

• Jeffrey Combs - Dr. Richard B. Vannacutt

• Andrew Pleavin - Samuel

• Chucky Venice - Warren

• Clyta Rainford - Harue

• Laia Gonzalez - Nurse

• George Zlatarev - Malcom

• Gil Kolirin - Norris Boz

Releases

Soon after the film's completion it was revealed that the DVD would be released on September 27, 2007 for North America and in a separate news article, the coming October 3rd for Australia. Dark Castle Entertainment however decided to push the release date to October 16, 2007 and October 10, 2007 for North America and Australia respectively. For North America there will be 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 subsequent discs, means that it will go unrated. This also means that due to laws prohibiting the sale of anything 'unrated' in Australia, Australians will only receive the 'rated' version in normal DVD format.

There will also be Blu-ray and HD DVD versions, also unrated, both including Navigational Cinema, a feature enabling viewers to interact with the storyline when at certain points it allows you to choose from two different paths. It will include seven viewer choices leading to 96 possible storylines, according to Joel Silver in a recent 'Return to House on Haunted Hill' featurette. In another interview, Silver announced the film will have four alternate endings, which can be achieved through the different choices you must make throughout the film.

External Links

• Return to House on Haunted Hill Official Site
• Return to House on Haunted Hill MySpace page
• Return to House on Haunted Hill Imdb page
• Return to House on Haunted Hill Clips
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