what be this and after all . a remake in color of a schlock 45 year old vincent price horror movie ( not very good to begin with ) feature a cavalcade of special effect . a rich amusement park owner ( geoffrey rush ) and his cynical and very tall wife ( famke jannsen ) invite half a dozen friend to spend the night in a deserted mansion . the survivor will get a million buck apiece . it particularly spooky because the building be an ex psychiatric hospital in which the owner year ago go mad and slaughtered staff and patient alike . he out mansoned manson and peter graf gravely intone on television . at first it all seem like a kind of practical joke perpetrate by rush and who be give to scary stunt . but then the house evidently lock itself up and nobody can get out or communicate with the outside and not even rush . most of the light go out and the guest be stick with the task of poke around with flashlight in the crumbling room fill with electronic torture device . it all get pretty routine . one of the guest be a black guy and i figure him for an early victim . it that kind of movie . there be a vat of what look like boil blood and someone get pull into it . there be a fake death . fall skylight . two pistol be produce and one supposedly load with blank . and all kind of mysterious going on and go on . and and zzzzzzz . i can see where someone might enjoy this . it all formulaic and and it a remake to begin with . but it creepy and scary and and bloody enough to satisfy the kind of desire generate in a mind whose cinematic faculty be as empty a a ping pong ball . want some spooky movie that embody some originality . if you haven not see any of val lewton tiny masterpieces the cat people or i walk with a zombie or and say and the haunting or carnival of soul and try them instead .