Anyone Want to Return to the House on Haunted Hill?
Filed under: Horror, Warner Brothers, Remakes and Sequels
Back in 1999, three filmmakers named Gilbert Adler, Robert Zemeckis, and Joel Silver kick-started a horror flick production company called Dark Castle Entertainment, its moniker an homage to the late, great schlock-producer William Castle. The company's first flick was House on Haunted Hill, which was a remake of Castle's 1959 chiller. The boys then served another remake (13 Ghosts), a waterlogged original (Ghost Ship), a dry asylum thriller (Gothika), and ... another remake (House of Wax). (Their next flick is a religiously-themed Hilary Swank chiller The Reaping.) And now comes word that the Dark Castle boys have grown weary of the remakes. Now they're making sequels to remakes!Now, I'm not sure how many horror fans even remember House on Haunted Hill, but I'll give you a reminder: It opened with a pretty amusing elevator gag before shoving its cast (Geoffrey Rush, Taye Diggs, Famke Janssen, Peter Gallagher, Chris Kattan) into a fairly standard haunted house set-up.
So yeah: They're making a sequel to that flick, and according to the often-reliable folks over at Bloody-Disgusting.com, Dark Castle has hired first-timer Victor Garcia to helm Return to House on Haunted Hill. No cast announcements just yet, but production will get underway this August ... in Bulgaria.
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6-15-2006 @ 1:49PM
The Jeremy said...
I liked the remake. I liked *13 Ghosts* as well. The others I felt were spotty though. But I'll see the sequel when it comes out if the consensus is that it is at least as good as the first film...
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6-15-2006 @ 4:33PM
Mike said...
I know it goes against the grain, but up until the big inky oil spill of doom was revealed in the remake of Haunted Hill, I thought it was a damn entertaining horror film. And Chris Kataan was finally able to be the hero!
And 13 Ghosts is a fun late-night cable flick. It's too bad they didn't focus on the ghosts as much as I would have liked. Those were some fun looking spooks.
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6-16-2006 @ 2:30PM
Dennis said...
Would LOVE to see Charisma Carpenter land the lead role in this sequel! Then again, I think that Charisma Carpenter should be cast as Wonder Woman in the upcoming feature film and Katharine McPhee should portray Wonder Woman on the WB's Smallville. All these girls need are some blue eye contacts. They have the rest.
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7-02-2006 @ 9:55AM
Dennis said...
Would love to see Charisma Carpenter get the lead but would also like to see Ali Larter return. Then add Erica Durance and you have an awesome female cast so far.
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7-06-2006 @ 12:29PM
Mike said...
I hope the remake returns to the same house...that would be awesome!
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