Return to House on Haunted Hill (2007)

Amanda Righetti as Ariel Wolfe
Directed by Víctor García
Written by William Massa
Other cast Cerina Vincent, Erik Palladino, Tom Riley
Genre Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
MPAA rating R (for strong bloody horror violence, language and brief sexuality/nudity)
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Synopsis:

The legacy of terror at the House on Haunted Hill began in 1931 when sadistic doctor Richard Vannacutt (Jeffrey Combs) and his staff died in a fiery inferno caused by a patient uprising at his hilltop asylum. Rumors persisted for decades that the building was haunted by the spirits of those who died there. The horror continued when billionaire Steven Price and his guests were gruesomely slaughtered at a party in the refurbished mansion in 1999. Though the authorities blamed Price for the murders, survivor Sara Wolfe claimed that ghosts were responsible for the brutal deaths.

Eight years later, Sara’s sister, Ariel Wolfe (Amanda Righetti), is a successful editor at a men’s fashion magazine. Her hectic schedule leaves her no time for a personal life, let alone her family. Ariel is distraught when she learns from police that Sara has killed herself. However, not all of the facts add up and she begins to suspect there was more to Sara’s death—and that her sister was trying to contact her before she died. Ariel’s fears are confirmed when she receives a strange book in the mail, sent by Sara shortly before her apparent suicide.

Archeologist Richard Hammer (Steven Pacey) reveals that the book is in fact the diary of Vannacutt, the cruel doctor who ran the hill house asylum. Sara had been helping Richard decode the diary, hoping that its passages would lead to the location of the ancient Baphomet idol, an occult demonic statue hidden somewhere inside the house. Sara believed that the idol was the source of the house’s evil. Richard and his team, grad students Michelle (Cerina Vincent) and Kyle (Andrew-Lee Potts), plan to enter the house and search for the idol.

Ariel wants no part of their macabre treasure hunt but soon becomes ensnared when she is kidnapped and taken to the Vannacutt mansion by Desmond Niles (Erik Palladino) and his mercenaries, who are also after the priceless idol. However, once inside they become trapped, and Ariel and the others come face to face with the terror that dwells within the House on Haunted Hill.