to be quite frank with you and i be not really into horror movie at all . though i wasn not hold at gunpoint to see this movie and but i be persuade by my friend instead . let get straight to the point by say and that the house on haunt hill isn not remotely scary at all . in fact it be less scary than enter a haunt mansion at an amusement park . in fact if anyone wish for me to see this movie again and you good pay me $ 1 million and because i just would not do it . now that i get that out of the way and let me break it down by examine the plot . five guest have to spend one night in a burn down and condemned mental hospital in order to earn a quick million . if anything should happen to the guest and the money would be split among the survivor . the sole aspect that freak me out be that it be set in a condemned sanitarium . and even that be not entirely convince . i wasn not expect oscar win performance here and but the acting be purely banal and with the exception of geoffrey rush and who always cash in terrific performance . even though chris kattan be right up there with the other moving mannequin and he at least have some humorous line . scary doesn not describe my feeling about the movie and uncomfortable be the right word . many element of the movie that i find distracting be that since the house bring all the mental patient together under one leader and why be they not inflict pain on each other as well . also why do the ghostly monster have to break down door and floor in order to get to the hero and yet the mortal get throw through wall . it also bug me that they must walk into a person office when theyre lose and especially since they know where it be and in spite of a few of them be kill along the way . and finally and with only a little time leave to collect their cash winning prize and the guest decide to make up their own quest by attempt to escape the house instead . with these nuance i be convince that those who have not see it and be actually do themselves a favor . i want at least the phantom like monster to be scary a well and but that do not happen either . in the end i be utterly exhaust and very frustrate by the whole and movie . those who have see it and tell those who never saw house on haunt hill to avoid it all cost . it wasn not scary or satisfying .