House on Haunted Hill - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of House on Haunted Hill or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to House on Haunted Hill

[ruby]

Marilyn Manson was considered for the role of Dr. Vannacutt.

[tamara]

Elizabeth Hurley was considered for the role of Evelyn Stockard-Price.

[jessie]

The only character in both the original and the remake of this film is the owner of the house, Watson Pritchet. However all the other characters are loosely based on characters from the original.

[alyssa]

Co-producer Terry Castle is the daughter of William Castle, who directed the 1959 version of the film.

[edgar]

(at around 18 mins) Famke Janssen performed her own stunt when the glass ceiling breaks. It was extremely important for Janssen to remain where she was and very still, yet even with her basically glued to the spot, the shard hit with so much impact that it bounced her head off the table as you can see on close inspection of the scene.

[terry]

(at around 12 mins) The names William Malone, Gilbert Adler and Valdemar Tymrak appear on Price's guest list before it is deleted. William Malone and Gilbert Adler are respectively the director and producer of the film. Valdemar Tymrak was a serial-killer and evil spirit in Tales from the Crypt: Report from the Grave (1996), which was also directed by Malone.

[nicholas]

(at around 12 mins) The original guest list that Price comes up with, before being deleted, has references to other works of horror. Mary Seward is a reference to both Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein, and Dr. Seward from Dracula, who was a doctor specializing in the treatment of the insane. And Valdemar Tymrak is a reference to the Edgar Allan Poe story, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, about a man who finds himself in an undead state after being hypnotized at the moment of death.

[brent]

When Stephen Price is talking to Schecter early in the film, you can see a Freddy Krueger glove hanging in the background

[phyllis]

The Darkness is seen as a tentacular morphing mass of ghosts. This design was inspired by the visuals of H.P. Lovecraft's novels and the Rorschach inkblots used in psychiatry.

[violet]

William Malone got the idea to set the movie in a former insane asylum when he was filming an episode of Tales from the Crypt (1989) in a former asylum and noticed that crew members were running scared out of the basement, not wanting to film there.

[bernard]

Of the group, including Price, Evelyn and the technician hired, Dr. Blackburn is the only one who doesn't die due to supernatural causes. Evelyn murders him.

[cassandra]

The original shooting script had Christopher Lee as the host of the TV show "Terrifying but True" that Evelyn Price watches the report of the House on Haunted Hill on. In the film, Peter Graves is the host.

[miriam]

BODY COUNT: 6- not counting flashback massacre (Melissa Marr, Dr. Donald Blackburn, Evelyn Price, Watson Pritchett, Stephen Price, and the worker hired by Mr. Price)

[willard]

(At 9 mins and 40 seconds.) When Price says, "From here on, it gets really scary," his roller coaster zooms past behind him on the tracks. The roller coaster actually had to be inserted digitally. Because if it were to really fly by as he stood there, the wind from its movement would have sent Geoffrey Rush flying off the ride entirely.

[janice]

The directors of both the original version and the remake are named William: William Castle and William Malone.

[darrell]

Geoffrey Rush was never meant to look like Vincent Price (star of the original film House on Haunted Hill (1959)). The original screenplay described Stephen Price as a regular looking businessman. Rush didn't care for this, so he suggested that his character look like the film director John Waters. The director agreed to test this look out. After his transformation, he ended up looking so much like Vincent Price the director decided to keep the look.

[terry]

This film and Thir13en Ghosts (2001) were Dark Castle Entertainment's first films, and a remake of horror filmmaker William Castle's films House on Haunted Hill (1959) and 13 Ghosts (1960). The studio took its name from him.

[victoria]

Geoffrey Rush's character's last name is Price. This is a reference to the original House on Haunted Hill (1959) in which Vincent Price played the main character.

[janice]

(at around 1h 2 mins) The faceless apparition Price encounters in the saturation chamber was originally designed and created by Dick Smith for Ghost Story (1981), but it never appeared in the final cut of the earlier film.