Movie Review: Return To House On Haunted Hill

8 Years have passed since Sara and Eddie escaped the House on Haunted Hill. After Sara's apparent suicide, her sister Ariel begins looking for answers. She finds herself kidnapped by someone seeking a relic worth millions that is in the house, yet believed to be the cause of the House's evil. Along with a group of treasure hunters they seek to find the statue of Baphomet or a way out... and stay alive.

Could a horror movie get any more generic than this? A group, complete with hot women in small shirts, wandering around in a spooky old abandoned house/sanitarium. A few greedy ones are concerned with finding the relic, the other do-gooders and just trying to get out. They seperate for various reasons, and get this... they begin to die one-by-one in particularly grisly ways. And there you have it.

But so what I say! I could watch 20 of these movies in a row probably as long as they're not boring. This one isn't. It's got a pretty quick pace for the short (81 minute) run time so I never really lost interest. The death scenes were pretty creative and grisly which made the anticipation of the next one sort of fun. Also, the set, special effects and direction were nicely and spookily (is that a word?) done, giving it a good atmosphere throughout as it's fairly visually creative.

And you just can't go wrong with former Power Ranger and horror fave Cerina Vincent (Cabin Fever, It Waits) in a skimpy tank top, bouncing through the hallways. Add sexy Amanda Righetti (The O.C., Reunion, North Shore) wearing... are you playing along at home... A TANK TOP, which manages to even get wet a few times, and you get the picture.

Anyway, eye candy aside, I found it an OK horror flick. Sure you could do better than this fairly generic straight-to-video title (deservingly so) but you could do much worse. Gore-hounds will like several scenes.

5/10