《Haunted Hill》 Review: Guests Invited to a Million-Dollar Haunted House

《Haunted Hill》 is a 1999 American horror film.
Its original title is “House on Haunted Hill.” It is a modern remake of William Castle’s classic 1959 horror film. The original was a low-budget haunted-house movie starring Vincent Price, and its simple premise, “survive one night and you get paid,” is still remembered as cult horror today. The 1999 version moves that setup into an abandoned psychiatric hospital.

The atmosphere is intense right from the start.

The film opens with a tragedy that took place in the hospital years earlier.
The place is the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute. It is now closed, but in the past it housed criminals and psychiatric patients.

Terrible rumors still cling to this hospital.
Patients died there, and people say something still remains inside the building.

Then time passes.

Amusement-park mogul Steven Price decides to hold his wife Evelyn’s birthday party in this abandoned hospital.
The invited guests are strangers to one another. They are given a single offer.

Stay inside the building all night, and each person gets one million dollars.

The condition is simple.
Make it until morning, and you get the money.
Leave, and it is over.

At first, everyone takes it half as a