Does everything a remake should do: take the concept of the original and do something new with it. The CGI is atrocious, but it's a campy, gory and fun time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 30, 2020

The passage of time hasn't improved this version one iota, although at least home viewers don't have to subject themselves to the lobby posters sporting that year's daftest tagline ("Evil Loves To Party").

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 23, 2019

House on Haunted Hill has a great first act and a handful of decent moments making it worth a watch, especially if you were weaned on '90s horror.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 10, 2018

[It's] hard to come down too harshly on this remake.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 20, 2018

To compensate for any real spooks, there are some solid gore effects and stellar set pieces.

| Oct 6, 2018

In our post-torture-porn era of gloom and doom, its ebullience feels like a breath of fresh air.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 24, 2014

The climactic house-versus-humans scenes were so ludicrous that I half expected Kattan to revert to his Mr. Peepers persona from SNL and start battling the evil inkblot with spat-out chunks of apple.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 5, 2014

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

House on Haunted Hill isn't a great movie. It is, however, a good deal of gory fun.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 7, 2011

Drained of any wild, spontaneous spark.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 29, 2009

It's a cheesy throwaway horror flick, but it's a tight cheesy throwaway horror flick.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 24, 2007

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

[It's] one of the great underrated horror flicks of the last decade. Yes, really.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 17, 2005

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 15, 2004

Quarts of shiny blood are splashed around and numerous moans and groans pepper the soundtrack, but astonishingly, the movie never manages to provoke so much as a shudder.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jul 2, 2003

...An excellent show of digi-graphics. But it is seldom scary.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2003

There's a great deal of general creepiness, but the enterprise is undercut by a weak script, weak characters, and a too simple plot.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

The mix of laughs, shocks and gruesomeness is much the same as in the two Tales from the Crypt movies, but Malone coaxes a slightly fresher flavour, taking on board the influence of David Fincher and even Lars von Trier.

| Dec 2, 2002

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2002

All the visual bravura doesn't fill in the gaping plot holes or generate any real frights.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 5, 2002