PrimeWire

If the original 1959 version of House in Haunted Hill was run through a theme park ride and what came out the other side was sprinkled with whatever substance the early 2000s was made of, you’d get this.

Geoffrey Rush is (very appropriately) a theme park tycoon who hates his wife. Of course she hates him too. And, just like the 1959 original, they’re going to try to kill eachother at a party. The party, again, involves 5 total strangers as guests and a big cash prize if they make it through the night.
The whole thing reads like a theme park ride, flickering light tubes, insane asylum, some pretty nonsensical medical “equipment,” excessive CGI in places. But Rush turns in an excellent campy performance as a Vincent Price/carnival barker/showman type. That’s a type, right?
Witness the wonder of Famke Janssen dressed in a chinese brocade homecoming scoochy dress, topped off with embarrassing up-do and brow bone gel glitter. Doesn’t get much more early 2000s than that. Oh wait, yes it does. Ali Larter, Taye Diggs, and Chris Kattan are here too.