Amanda Righetti, Erik Palladino, Cerina Vincent

Eight years have passed since Sara Wolfe and Eddie Baker escaped the House on Haunted Hill. Now, Sara's sister Ariel goes inside the house with a group of treasure hunters to find the statue of Bapho...( read more  read more... )met, worth millions and believed to be the cause of the house's evil.

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Directed by: Víctor García (VI)

Release Date: December 31, 2002

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DVD Release Date: November 29, 2005

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  • July 8, 2009
    I praised the original for it's characters. I will insult this sequel because of it's characters. The original managed to avoid the obvious who should die who should live, this sequel embraces it. This means we have a plot involving evil people out for an artifact so they can sel...( read more)l it and good people, out for an artifact so they can put it in a museum. The film is simple and enjoyable enough, but it plays it too safe. The CGI, gore and horror ranges from impressive to sub-par. Cerina Vincent looks a lovely though and makes her scenes sizzle like she did in Cabin Fever.
  • April 5, 2009
    Not only is it a quite convoluted yet simple plot, it isn't scary or even gory (what I mean to say is that the gore is not well done, be it crap CG or badly colored and wrong consistency blood). The acting is fair considering I have never seen any of these people before.

    The hi...( read more)ghlight here is the set decoration and overall art direction though vast chunks of it smack of rented permanent studio installations. Makeup is a nice attempt but is basically laughable and wholly ineffective. BIG SKIP
  • July 29, 2008
    Sadly, Return is missing a lot of the dark atmosphere its predecessor nailed. It also introduces a very forced story revolving around a treasure hunt for a cursed idol, and the dialogue is, at times, laughably bad. On the other hand, however, Return has a lot more from the indi...( read more)vidual ghosts of the asylum, and that includes a longer appearance from Jeffrey Combs. That alone probably makes it worth watching.
  • March 10, 2008
    i was skeptical towards this sequel as it was a different writer, director and a completely different team of unknowns making it, but i was proved wrong. it wasn't as good as house on haunted hill... infact far from it, but it was thoroughly enjoyable in it's own b-movie right. a...( read more)t times the special effects look cheap and the story behind how they all ended up at the house was a bit forced. i enjoyed the further expanding background story on the history of the house as the film progressed and the special effects seemed to get better as it went on. yes, it is just a bucketload of cheap thrills... but that's what i like mostly when it comes to horror. it also helped that amanda righetti and cerina vincent were in it as prime rack wielding totty. nothing better than those weapons to fight the baddies with!
  • March 10, 2008
    Yup I saw th first one and actually enjoyed it so of course I had to see this one. It was ok...story wasn't as bad...cast was ok. It's ok done but I defenitly rate this a B movie...nothing you wanna see again unless your teen has a movie night and you wanna creep out a buncha gir...( read more)ls >:)
  • November 11, 2009
    amazing death scenes. good sequel. better than the first.
  • September 4, 2009
    I always seem to have a soft spot for bad horror films. And the original House on the Haunted Hill is a guilty pleasure of mine. This film being the sequel to the remake of the original, which I never bothered seeing, I can't say I held much hope for it at all. But being a big fa...( read more)n of Andrew Lee Potts' work I wasn't likely to pass up the opportunity to see this. Even if I knew it would be bloody awful. And awful it was, but at the same time it was watchable, and the zombie/livingdead people/things weren't too bad looking. Or at least i've seen worse.
    It really doesn't have a lot to do with the original Vincent Price film, in fact the only similarity I found was that it is set in a house. And the house itself looks nothing like what it should and they don't even try to pretend it's just a house. They have a lovely nice backstory to try a bulk up their plot.
    We're told that it was a mental asylum many years ago and some people died, blah, blah, you get the idea. It's been done before. There is also something to do with a maltese falcon. Or maybe not quite that but some sculpture that kills people, or makes them mental. As I said, there is nothing new about this film at all. It has all been done before and they don't bring anything new to the table either so reasons for you wanting to see this really fall down to whether you're interested in any of the actors or the director.
    The director has done bugger all and doesn't do a very good job and the performances, aside from Potts, are average and pushed. The whole thing screams B movie. And if you go in expecting a B movie, then maybe you might just enjoy it.
    Potts is a refreshing addition to the cast and although this didn't get a wide release, or do well in any form at all, it's nice to see that he's breaking into cinema on the other side of the pond. It's funny seeing him doing an American accent but he does it very well. His character is bloody funny and Potts gives it a nice edge. Yes, I am a fan, so even if he is in shit, I'll find it impossible to hate him.
    Maybe if you're a massive horror fan then this film will do it for you. But anyone else, you're not really missing out on anything spectacular or even average for that matter.
  • August 10, 2009
    The bits and pieces i saw wasn't good but the one scene where the insane doctor dude uses that precision scalpel to cut that broads face off in like 0.2 seconds was funny as hell,(haha)
  • July 24, 2009
    Was the phrase "From the producers of Gothika and Thirteen Ghosts" supposed to lure us into this movie?!

    Although, I must admit that the Choose your own adventure feature on the DVD looks pretty interesting. Sorry but it does.
  • June 25, 2009
    OWNS IT WAS OKAY 1ST ONE WAS WAY BETTER

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  • Aritosgold
    October 28, 2007
    This is good.more ghost than the first one;;

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