The late '90s and early millennium saw a string of 50s horror movies getting rebooted, including The Haunting, Thirteen ...

When an eccentric millionaire offer a group of opposites $1,000,000 to spend the night in a so called "Haunted House" with a murderous past, they figure it is a quick way to get quick money and leave.

The iconic Universal Monster films were being phased out ... genre pieces like 2024's Abigail. The House on Haunted Hill received a remake in 1999, and it would get a sequel in 2007.

The screenplay is the one about the group of people who promise to spend the night in a haunted house. In this case ... perambulating skeletons. Haunted Hill is expertly put together.

House on Haunted Hill plays out more like a fantastically engrossing mystery than a horror movie, the premise a precursor to films like House of 9 (2004). Sightings of a “ghost” turn out to be ...