This seems to be '90s month, so let the good times roll!
A group of idiots are brought to a house, and if they survive the night, they gets all the monies! Except...
As this is a remake, there are several rules that get enacted to spruce the movie up, and make it a real 90s piece. 1) There is a backstory to the place, b) the idiots have a connection to each other for more soap opera, and, oh yeah, iii) the ghosts are real. No Vincent Price with a skeleton on a rope here!
While there are some great actors here, from Geoffrey Rush, Fanke Jansen, Ali Larter, Bridget Wilson (whom I'm sure should have had a better career), unfortunately we do get way too much Chris Kattan, and not even Jeffrey Combs can come soon enough to sort him out.
The effects are.. decent enough. I certainly enjoy them, and there are some great practical stuff happening. The opening alone is a nice bit of puppetry and horror imagery. (Although the model of the house couldn't look more like the model of a house. And the CGI ghost shadow is... well...)
Anyway, highly entertaining horror that is doused in comedy, whether they meant it to be or not.
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