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"Sure is a funky old house, ain’t it?"
Stephen/Evelyn

The remake of House on Haunted Hill (1959) from 1999, directed by William Malone and starring Geoffrey Rush, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Famke Janssen, James Marsters, Chris Kattan, and Jeffrey Combs.

The setting of the fateful party is moved to an abandoned mental hospital, the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane, said to be haunted by the malevolent ghosts of the murderous inmates. The head of the facility, Dr. Richard B. Vannacutt (Combs), performed grotesque experiments on his patients, killing many in the process. The hospital was only closed when a handful of inmates escaped, killing almost the entire staff and setting fire to the facility, while security gates trapped everyone inside.

Fast forward to the present, where amusement park mogul Stephen Price (Rush) is leasing this facility for the Halloween party of his spoiled trophy wife Evelyn (Janssen). The five invitees are given a similar challenge as in the original movie, only the pot has been upped to $1,000,000 for any survivors, plus the winnings of any who do not survive having their earnings added to those of any remaining survivors. Soon after the party begins, the security gates are tripped, and the partygoers are trapped inside the facility with the insane spirits haunting the facility - including not only all the inmates, but also Vannacutt himself.

The film marked the debut of Dark Castle Entertainment, which went on to produce Thir13en Ghosts and House of Wax (2005), the former also a remake of a William Castle movie. It was followed by a sequel, Return to House on Haunted Hill, in 2007.


This remake contains examples of:

  • And I Must Scream: The closing credits include the newsreel-style footage from the opening, only this time, Dr. Vannacutt has been replaced by Steven, who is getting vivisected, and a terrified Evelyn has replaced the nurse next to him, indicating they're being tortured by the patients in perpetuity.
  • Ambiguously Bi: Hinted at with Stephen. Some of his interactions with Evelyn, especially after the house is well into its killing spree, indicate that they may still have had some very small shreds of love left for each other. On the other hand, Evelyn makes a couple of remarks implying that Stephen is secretly attracted to guys.
    Evelyn: "Which part of that fantasy turns you on the most? Me with other men, or just the other men?"
  • Amusement Park of Doom: Price plays with the line between "safe" thrills and "dangerous" thrills early on, when he sends guests for a ride on a roller coaster that is designed to fling the train ahead of you off the track, leading you to (logically) believe that you're about to die horribly, only for your train to continue over the same stretch of track unharmed. He thinks the whole thing is hilarious.
  • And Starring: Loads of it. The first two credits are "Starring Geoffrey Rush AND Famke Janssen. Then we get "With Peter Gallagher," "And Chris Kattan." In the closing credits, the final listing is "And Peter Graves as Himself."
  • Anti-Villain:
    • The mental patients aren't evil, but revolting against the abuse they suffered at the hands of the Staff.
    • The second movie reveals that even the staff members were not evil. Dr. Vannacutt was using the demon idol to make them kill. In the afterlife he was using it to control the ghosts and make them kill.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Downplayed with Steven and Evelyn Price. In spite of both of their repeated attempts to humiliate and kill the other, there are moments that hint their may have once been real love in the marriage. Steven seems genuinely distraught when he believes Evelyn has been murdered. Not only that, Evelyn fearfully calls out for Steven and Steven gives up on his quest to harm her and urges Evelyn to get up and come to him right before she is consumed by the evil spirit of the house.
  • Backup from Otherworld: Pritchett, after having died, appears as a ghost to help the last two escape.
  • Big Bad: Of the living, similar to the original film, Evelyn arranged the birthday party at the house in order to make it appear Steven murdered her. She employs one of her lovers, Dr. Blackburn, to revive her after she's shocked to death in the electroshock therapy room. She attempts to take advantage of the creepy location and stress to gaslight one of the others and get them to shoot Steven to death. When she feels the rest of the guests still aren't on edge enough for one of them to kill Steven for her, she murders Blackburn and stages it so the others will think Steven murdered him, to goad one of the others to killing Steven. The plan succeeds, but Steven was aware of it, and wore a bulletproof vest.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Evelyn. While she acts nasty to everyone, she dupes them into believing Steven killed her with the assistance of her accomplice, Dr. Blackburn. She also gets the drop on Blackburn and kills him to further convince the others Steven is out of his mind, and gaslights Sara into shooting him. He gets better.
    • Dr. Blackburn is a male version, seemingly just a level-headed and stuffy doctor until he leaves Steven in the saturation chamber at full blast, and reveals he's in on the murder plot of Steven with Evelyn.
  • The Blank: During Price's hallucination, The Blank shows up swimming through darkness. It has no eyes, no face, but a mouth. And fangs.
  • Bloodier and Gorier: Way more blood and gore compared to the original.
  • Bloody Horror: So, so much! The prime examples are Melissa's death which the guests find a large puddle of blood as well as a blood streak going up the walls, ceiling, and into the house. Her body is found later when Steven comes across a display case with Melissa's hollowed out torso along with several of her bones, organs, and severed head inside. Occurs again when Stephen comes across his tech guy with his face ripped off and his skull hollowed out as well as when Evelyn murders Donald by stabbing him several times with a scalpel and placing his bloody severed head inside the saturation chamber.
  • Break the Haughty: At the start of the party, Steven believes himself to be in complete control of the events of the evening, with his associate Shecter set up to trigger scares, and prepares to play puppetmaster for the guests. He's even aware of his wife's entire plot to kill him. Then the ghosts of the house reveal themselves, Shecter is murdered by the ghost of Dr. Vannacutt, and Steven ends up locked in the saturation chamber and submitted to Mind Rape by Dr. Blackburn. He recovers some of himself when he confronts Evelyn on her failed attempt to kill him, but then the Darkness of the hospital reveals itself, kills Evelyn, and Steven, almost a shell of the man he started the evening as, is reduced to admitting Pritchett was right about the ghosts and attempting to come up with a way to get himself and the remaining survivors out of harm's way.
  • Clothing Damage: How fanservice it is all depends on how attracted you are to Geoffrey Rush. While all the characters get some variation of this, either from blood, being murdered, or the dirty surroundings they're in, the character most on the receiving end is Steven, who ironically starts off the most nattily dressed with a tux jacket, tux shirt, and ascot. He loses the jacket and ascot in the saturation chamber, the shirt gets covered in Blackburn's blood when Evelyn frames Steven for Blackburn's murder, and gets shot and even more bloodied when Sara unloads her gun in him. The death was faked (he was wearing a bulletproof vest) and for the rest of his appearance, he's reduced to just the slacks, shoes, suspenders, and the ripped open and destroyed tuxedo shirt.
  • Connected All Along: Steven's proposed guest list for Evelyn's party is updated on his computer by an otherworldly presence to include Jennifer Jenzen, Eddie Baker, and Melissa Marr. When Eddie finds a portrait with the names of all of Vannacutt's staff on the wall of Vannacutt's office, Sara figures out that everyone invited (save for Blackburn) is a descendant of five of the staff of Vannacutt's hospital that managed to escape being burned in the fire, and that the spirits specifically invited them out of unfinished business. Even Steven and Evelyn Price are descendants from the former staff. In the end, it gets everyone but Jennifer, since Sara stole her invitation and came in her place, and Eddie, who gets pulled out of harm's way after the spirit of Pritchett opens the exit a final time. In Eddie's defense, he states he was adopted, but it seemed the darkness didn't care, and would have taken him anyway if not for Pritchett's intervention.
  • Creator Cameo: Writer Dick Beebe is the male nurse in the opening who winds up stabbed in the neck with a bunch of sharpened pencils.
  • Darker and Edgier: While it follows the same basic structure as the 1959 film: isolated location, millionaire and wife who despise each other; murder plot between the wife and one of the party guests who's a doctor to frame husband for her murder and to gaslight one of the other guests into killing her husband; and the party guests being offered a large sum of cash to be locked in and stay the night; that film ends never fully answering the question as to whether the house was actually haunted, and only the evil wife and the doctor end up dead before the credits. The remake dials things up to 11. The house is a former mental hospital overseen by a mad doctor who experimented on his patients, and who died along with the majority of those patients and staff after he locked down the hospital before the slaughtered him and a fire broke out. The guests, minus the doctor that is in on the plot with the wife, are all descendants of five of the mad doctor's staff that escaped the fire, and were specifically invited by the spiritual presence in the house. The wife and husband have much more animosity towards each other, the wife actually is killed and revived, and the wife murders her partner to frame her husband. The lock down was planned in the original film. Here, the lock down takes place of its own accord. The biggest difference is that the former asylum is haunted, and we see multiple ghosts, including the mad doctor, as well as a darkness made up of the combined spirits of everyone who died that gets released and ends up killing three people. By the time the credits roll, six people have been killed, five by ghosts/the Darkness, and there are only two survivors.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Everyone gets in on the act, but Steven, Evelyn, and Pritchett are the snarkiest of the bunch. Steven and Evelyn's verbal sparring in the bedroom after her arrival is almost a World of Snark.
  • Death by Genre Savviness: Pritchett, who knows the lethal history of the house, spends most of the movie sitting in the most central, well-lit room possible and drinking heavily. However, this doesn't do him much good. Interestingly, in the original version of the script, he was the one who survived, while Eddie died.
  • Demonic Head Shake: One of the characters experiences a rather freaky nightmare while trapped in a sensory deprivation chamber. This starts with a ghost nurse "diagnosing" him, before asking the ghost of Dr. Vannacut for his "opinion". The Doctor responds by shaking his head in a blurry fashion.
  • Doomed Defeatist: Toyed with, where Prichett knows about how the house is completely fricking evil and is fully aware that he, and everyone else in the house, is probably going to die. He spends the majority of the movie drinking and making dark, fatalistic quips about how everyone is doomed and there's no escape. The movie almost fools you into thinking he might be one of the few to survive after he starts actually helping to get everyone out, and then he gets the quickest death in the whole movie. At least he gets to save the ones who are left as a ghost at the end.
  • The Dragon: Dr. Blackburn is in on a plot with Evelyn to gaslight one of the other members of the party into murdering Steven. He revives her after her heart is stopped by the electroshock therapy machine, and attempts to drive Steven insane by leaving Steven locked in the saturation chamber with the machine on full blast.
  • Dwindling Party: Eight characters start out locked in the house (including Shecter.) Only Eddie and Sara make it out alive.
  • Enclosed Space: For both films; once they enter the building, they won't be able to leave so easily.
  • Genius Loci: Pritchard constantly warns the others that the house itself is alive and trying to kill everyone. This is proven true near the end, when it manifests as a hive-mind entity comprised of the spirits of everyone who have died there. At one point a hallway even turns into a gaping mouth.
  • The Ghost: Thanks to Debi Mazar's scenes being deleted, we're never introduced to Jennifer Jenzen proper in the film, and only know through Sara's dialogue that she's an overbearing bitch that fired Sara, and that Sara is actually impersonating her and stole her party invitation due to the million in cash being offered to stay the night. In Sara's defense, she tries to give it to Jennifer, but Jennifer brushes her off.
  • Heroic BSoD: Steven breaks down after watching Evelyn being electrocuted to death, quietly apologizing to her corpse and slipping into a trance, the exact opposite of the boisterous personality he's shown thus far. It's only when Pritchett tries to blame the event on the ghosts of the asylum that Steven, completely unbelieving of ghosts, snaps out of it and then seems to snap completely.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Though usually not a very heroic character, Price shoves Sarah out of the path of the resident Eldritch Abomination, and is consumed by the monster himself.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Evelyn makes it appear Steven murdered her (she's revived by her accomplice, Dr. Blackburn) then murders Blackburn and frames Steven for it, in order to get him shot by one of the gaslighted attendees. The plan works, but unfortunately for her, Steven had everything bugged and knew the whole plan in advance, allowing him to fake his death as well. When he confronts her, he gleefully tells her he's going to murder her since she's already set up that she's dead. While he doesn't get the chance to go through with it, (the darkness gets her first) her entire plan backfired and if the darkness hadn't killed her, Steven was angry enough, and justified enough, to do it himself.
    • Also, Evelyn's insistence to hold the party at the former Vannacutt Institute comes back to bite her tenfold, as she's apparently unaware she's related to one of the nurses that escaped the 1930s blaze, and is unaware Steven is related to one also. Her insistence on using the building somehow allows the spiritual forces of the building to hack Price's computer and invite the relations of the other members of the medical staff that escaped the blaze, and allow them to be picked off by the malevolent spirits, and her only real reason for picking it is because she felt the location would be the perfect murder spot to get someone to kill Steven and allow her to escape the marriage and keep all of Steven's money. It leads to her and Steven's deaths.
  • Ironic Hell: The last shot is of the spirits of Stephen and Evelyn Price still trapped in the asylum, being vivisected by patients for, one may assume, eternity.
  • Jerkass: Steven has traits even setting up devices to scare the guests. In his defense, his wife is using the party as a ploy to kill him, and he knows about every part of it.
  • Karma Houdini: The real Jennifer Jenzen in the film proper. She's nasty, and like Steven, Evelyn, and Melissa, a descendant of the five staff that escaped the fire but never makes it to the house because Sara takes her invitation. It's subverted in the deleted scenes, as Jennifer discovers she's inherited the house and is being driven to it by a real estate agent. She goes inside, we hear her scream, and the real estate agent turns to the camera to reveal he's Dr. Vannacutt and puts his signature glasses on.
  • Large Ham: Kattan and Janssen have their moments, but it's Geoffrey Rush that chews most of the scenery in the film, and it's glorious.
  • Losing Your Head: Happens during Price's hallucination in the Saturation Chamber when he sees his wife holding his still-living head.
  • Mad Scientist: Vannacutt, who experimented on patients and even staff members while he was alive.
  • Vannacutt. Say it with a Hungarian accent.
  • Mind Hive: It turns out that the house isn't merely haunted, but the ghosts have amalgamated into a single entity that speaks with multiple voices, and wants to devour the souls of the visitors to add to its consciousness. After it kills Melissa, Evelyn and Steven, they appear as faces to taunt the other survivors.
  • Mind Rape: The Saturation Chamber does this to its victims, as part of Dr. Vannacutt's theory that images which could drive a sane man mad would work in reverse and drive a mad man sane. We never find out if it worked as intended, but it certainly does a number on the mind of Steven. However, he seems to be playing it up once he reveals he faked his death and out-gambited Evelyn
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Darkness is released when Steven and Evelyn fight, and Steven throws Evely through a flimsy wall where it's laying in wait. It may have eventually found a way to release itself, but the fight certainly escalates things, and results in Evelyn, Pritchett, and Steven being killed by it.
  • Not His Sled: The first half of the film, aside from some additional backstory for the characters and getting to see the set up for the party, largely follows the 1959 film beat-for-beat, with the guests offered cash to spend the night, the bickering millionaire and his wife, and people being locked in. Also, anyone who's seen the original film will rightly be suspicious of Dr. Blackburn, and suspect that he's set up a murder plot with Evelyn the same way Dr. Trent set one up with Annabelle in the 1959 version, and he has. Price's character in the original film was also in control for the whole film. What takes the remake into Not His Sled territory is that, unlike the 1959 version, which never confirms or denies the presence of ghosts, this house isdefinitively haunted. It follows the structure of the 1959 version up until Melissa Marr observes Dr. Vannacutt's ghostly operation, and gets attacked and killed by a ghost, before veering off into completely new territory, with Steven (the VP character) losing control and getting turned on by the remaining suspicious guests after Evelyn's death, a much higher body count, and the ghost attacks escalating until it's a wall of darkness out to consume everyone alive. The only main plot thread from the 1959 version retained in the second half is the murder plot, and even that is escalated when Evelyn betrays Blackburn and murders him, which didn't happen in the original and will be a shock for those that have seen it. While the conclusion of the murder plot is similar with Steven faking his own death (and being gorier and without the fake skeleton) it's not the actual climax, instead the film culminates with the Darkness being released, and picking off the remaining survivors until only two are left and able to escape it. Also, the remake's version of the two favorite characters from the original, Steven and Pritchett, don't survive the ghosts. The remake makes it seem like Steven will survive, but then he's killed off in a Heroic Sacrifice mere minutes before the film ends.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Steven's knowledge of the plot to murder him by Evelyn and Dr. Blackburn. He seems to be victimized by the saturation chamber and when Sara guns him down, it seems Evelyn got away with the plan and gloats in front of Steven's apparent corpse. Then he reveals he faked his death, and thanks to bugs and hidden cameras, he's recorded everything Evelyn and Dr. Blackburn said, and simply played along with Evelyn's plot to make her believe she was successful, so he could get the chance to murder Evelyn himself and get away with it.
  • Off with His Head!: Happens to Dr. Blackburn; after Evelyn stabs him several times with a scalpel she decapitates him and places his severed head in the saturation chamber to frame Stephen.
    • Steven also finds Melissa Marr's chopped up corpse on display, and she's been decapitated as well.
    • When in the saturation chamber, Steven has a hallucination of Evelyn holding his decapitated head like a basketball.
  • Oh, Crap!: When Stephen thinks that the remaining guests murdered Evelyn in the electroshock room and asks which of them is working with the ghostly man he had seen on the cameras (though not aware that he's a ghost at first), Prichett gives a loud gasp of "Vannacutt!" and is clearly freaked out by the news.
    • Pritchett also has one when the metal shields start descending over the doors and windows as he's trying to leave.
    • Sara gets one when she's digging through a vat of blood after seeing Eddie jump in it, only to hear his voice, look up and see him, and realize that whoever she saw dive in wasn't Eddie. Then whatever it was she saw jump in grabs her and tries to drag her in.
    • Blackburn has one, mixed with shock, when Evelyn stabs him with a scalpel to frame Steven for his murder.
    • Evelyn gets arguably the biggest one, when after taunting Steven's apparent corpse, he suddenly grabs her by the throat, revealing he's been alive the whole time.
    • Both Steven and Evelyn get one after the Darkness is unleashed during a physical altercation.
  • Out-Gambitted: Evelyn's plot to get Steven murdered with Blackburn's help. She's even convinced she got away with it until Steven reveals he knew the plan the entire time, played along and faked his death in order to get the opportunity to kill Evelyn himself.
  • The Place: The Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane.
  • Perfect Disguise, Terrible Acting: Played with. Sara poses as her boss, Jennifer Jenzen, to come to the party after Jennifer fires her. She sells things at first, but once she demonstrates she knows how to get lights in the basement functioning, Eddie calls her out because he's familiar with executives and Sara demonstrates traits that he knows a real executive wouldn't have.
  • Punny Name: The head doctor heavily into vivisecting is named Vannacutt (say with a Transylvanian accent).
  • Really Gets Around:
    • Evelyn; Stephen even says she's "fucking every living thing in our area code".
    • Melissa could also qualify as she doesn't have any scruples about sleeping with people to advance her career.
  • Redemption Equals Death: Steven is a bit of a Jerkass throughout the film (in his defense, his wife and Dr. Blackburn were trying to get him killed) but after the darkness is released, he actively tries to get himself, Sara, and Eddie to safety. Steven is the one that figures out the escape route in the attic, but instead of just rushing right out, he waits around for Sara and Eddie, and sacrifices himself by shoving Sara out of the way of the darkness and letting it consume him instead.
  • The Remake: Made 40 years after the original.
  • Ruder and Cruder: Steven and Evelyn are far less urbane than their original counterparts, dropping F bombs like they're going out of style. Justified in that Steven is a scary amusement park mogul, and the remake has codes that were far less restrictive than they were in 1959, when the original was made.
  • Sapient House: The house as a whole has become one because of the Eldritch Abomination Mind Hive residing inside it, with an entire hallway at one point transforming into a gaping jaw.
  • Shout-Out: The guest list Price types up for Evelyn's birthday (before the Eldritch Abomination deletes it and makes a new one) is a list of shout outs:
    • Mary Seward (script supervisor Mary Anne Seward)
    • Valdemar Tymrak (a psychopath in the Tales from the Crypt episode "Report from the Grave," directed by the film's director William Malone)
    • W.L. Malone (director William Malone)
    • Gilbert Adler (one of the producers)
    • Steven's surname is a reference to Vincent Price, who essentially played the Steven role in the original film.
    • While Geoffrey Rush was trying to emulate John Waters with his look for Steven, it ended up being kept as a Shout-Out to Price, as the filmmakers noted it make Rush look similar to Price.
  • Sins of Our Fathers: The whole reason the house has called these particular guests is because all of them are descended from the sole survivors of the fire that destroyed the asylum. Except for Eddie (adopted), Sara (lied about her identity), and Blackburn (he was Evelyn's secret lover and invited him to the party).
  • The Sociopath: Evelyn. She only married Steven for his money, has affairs with multiple men that Price knows about, but won't simply divorce him because of a prenup. She plans the party with Blackburn's help to fake her death and gaslight one of the other guests into killing Steven. She also kills Blackburn with no hesitation when she thinks using his corpse and framing Steven for Blackburn's murder will finally bring her plan to get rid of Price to fruition. It almost works.
  • Suddenly Shouting: Pritchett does this to Price, since he's scared of the place, wants to leave immediately, and Price keeps holding up his rental payment to use the building to talk to the other guests. He finally politely interrupts Price before shouting, "God DAMN IT! You gimme my GODDAMN check right now!"
  • This Is Gonna Suck: As mentioned above in Oh Crap!, when Prichard realizes that the man Steven was chasing is none other than Vannacutt himself, his tone of voice implies he's just become a LOT more pessimistic about their chances of survival.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Sara when confronted with the ghosts just stands there and has to be pulled or pushed away several times. Subverted, as she survives. Then again, it likely has less to do with her being Too Dumb to Live than her being frozen in fear from seeing an actual Eldritch Abomination.
    • Rather than immediately flee out of the opening in the attic, Steven inexplicably wanders around. While it might be because he's waiting on Eddie and Sara, it's not explained. While it causes his death, it does allow Steven to make a Heroic Sacrifice for Sara.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Sara Wolfe is far more collected and hands-on than her screaming counterpart Nora Manning from the 1959 film. While Eddie Baker's demeanor is similar to his 1959 counterpart, Lance Schroeder, he edges out Lance as Eddie has to actively avoid, and escape from, actual ghosts.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Steven and Evelyn Price, who are basically the Frederick and Annabelle Loren characters from the 1959 film, have three times the animosity for each other than their 1959 counterparts. Steven also has Shecter present with some things rigged up to scare the guests, but since the house is haunted, few of his tricks actually come into play, Shecter is murdered by Dr. Vannacutt's ghost, and the majority of the scares are actually real.
  • Undercrank: Used to creepy effect in the both movies for Vannacutt. Jeffrey Combs was told to move in slow motion, and the footage was then sped up for the movie, creating Marionette Motion.
  • Undead Abomination: The Big Bad is a monstrous, amorphous mass of ghosts bound together by their own collective madness and hatred for the living, capable of warping reality within the confines of the house itself and can induce near-catatonic fear at the very sight of it.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Evelyn undergoes this when Steven reveals he faked his death, knew about her plan with Blackburn to get him killed, and is completely at Steven's wrath and mercy. While the reveal of the Darkness in the house takes all the fight out of Steven, it kills her instead.
  • Who Are You?: In-universe. Steven destroys Evelyn's proposed birthday party guest list and invites those of his own choosing. Then an otherworldly presence updates it again after he leaves the list open on his computer to the final list. After the new guests arrive, Evelyn lampshades the trope upon her arrival with Exact Words and a Precision F-Strike, "Who the Fuck are all of you?" Steven later asks for their names before telling them he's never heard of any of them either. The only subversion is Dr. Blackburn. He's in on the murder plot with Evelyn. Later, we find out that Steven knew who he was too.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: Steven is completely dismissive of the ghosts, and dismissive of Pritchett's belief the lockdown was initiated by the malevolent presence in the asylum. He initially blames everything that goes wrong on Evelyn's machinations. We find out later that his stance is likely due to the fact that he knows Evelyn and Blackburn are in on a plot to kill him. It's only after the Darkness kills Evelyn right in front of him that he realizes how wrong he was.
  • Xanatos Speed Chess: When it seems like the murder ploy is going awry, Evelyn decides to murder her partner Blackburn and leave the corpse to be discovered while framing Steven for the crime.
  • You Have Failed Me: After Dr. Blackburn revives Evelyn, she kills him, decapitates him, and places his corpse in the saturation chamber to frame Steven for the crime, since they can't confirm Melissa is dead. Ends up justified as finding Blackburn's corpse and having a bloodied Steven approach her prompts Sara to shoot him.
  • Younger and Hipper: Melissa Marr is decades younger than her 1959 counterpart, Ruth Bridger. Melissa also carries around a video camera to document the happenings in the house.

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