This remake of House on Haunted Hill (1959) was clearly made in anticipation of The Haunting‘s presupposed success – you can see the thinking that can allow the remake of one haunted house movie to tail-end on the remake of another. The irony to be found here is that this trend was started off by the announcement of the Haunting remake – but where instead The Haunting proved to be the biggest flop of them all, it was sleepers like The Blair Witch Project and The Sixth Sense that ended up capturing everybody’s attention. First up was the remake of The Haunting (1999) and this was followed variously by the amazing successes of The Blair Witch Project (1999) and The Sixth Sense (1999), as well as the likes of Stigmata (1999), Stir of Echoes (1999) and Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow (1999). Without a doubt, 1999 was a year marked by a major return of supernatural horror.
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