Five guests arrive for the party: film producer Jennifer Jenzen baseball player Eddie Baker former television personality Melissa Marr Donald Blackburn, a physician and Pritchett. The building's owner, Watson Pritchett, is convinced it is evil, having lived there as a child when it was converted to a private residence. At Evelyn's insistence, Price stages her birthday party at the long-abandoned hospital. In 1999, Evelyn Stockard-Price is in a disintegrating marriage with Steven Price, an amusement park mogul. The patients start a fire which engulfs the building, killing all of the inmates and all but five of Vannacutt’s staff. In 1931, the patients at the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane revolt against the staff headed by the sadistic Dr.
The plot follows a group of strangers who are invited to a party at an abandoned insane asylum, where they are offered $1 million each by an amusement park mogul if they are able to survive the night. House on Haunted Hill is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by William Malone and starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Chris Kattan, Bridgette Wilson, Peter Gallagher, and Jeffrey Combs.