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Directed by | Víctor García |
Produced by | Steve Richards Erik Olsen Jonathan Tzachor Roee Sharon |
Written by | William Massa |
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Amanda Righetti Cerina Vincent Erik Palladino Tom Riley Andrew Lee Potts Jeffrey Combs |
Music by | Frederik Wiedmann |
Cinematography | Lorenzo Senatore |
Edited by | Robert Malina |
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Distributed by | Warner Premiere |
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October 16, 2007 |
Running time
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79 minutes 81 minutes (unrated version) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Return to House on Haunted Hill is a 2007 direct-to-DVD horror film and the sequel to the 1999 film House on Haunted Hill. Directed by Víctor García and written by William Masa, the film stars Amanda Righetti, Tom Riley, Cerina Vincent and Erik Palladino. The film follows Ariel Wolfe - younger sister of Sara Wolfe; the previous films protagonist - being forced by a group of people to search for a mysterious idol hidden inside a haunted psychiatric asylum.
Ariel Wolfe (Amanda Righetti) is the sister of Sara Wolfe (Ali Larter), a survivor of a birthday event eight years ago in the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane. In the 1920s, the asylum was overseen by the sadistic psychiatrist Dr. Richard B. Vannacutt (Jeffrey Combs). Sara claimed that ghosts of the house residents killed the party guests, and later commits suicide.
Ariel and her friend Paul (Tom Riley) are kidnapped by an art dealer, Desmond Niles (Erik Palladino). Ariel realises that Sara didn't commit suicide: Desmond killed her. Desmond forces Ariel to help him find an artifact located inside the old Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute, a figurine of the demon Baphomet. Inside the building, they encounter Dr. Richard Hammer (Steven Pacey) and his assistants Kyle (Andrew-Lee Potts) and Michelle (Cerina Vincent).