Welcome to the House on Haunted Hill where the host pays you to stay! There'll be no valets no mints on pillows. But each guest receives a needed bonus: a tiny coffin with a gun inside. In William Castle's 1959 mix of fright and fun Vincent Price plays the macabre host offering $10000 to guests who survive the night. The going rate is $1000000 in the effects-filled Dark Castle Entertainment 1999 remake. Geoffrey Rush portrays the twisted big shot who throws a birthday bash for his wife (Famke Janssen) at an abandoned insane asylum. Taye Diggs Ali Larter Bridgette Wilson Peter Gallagher and Chris Kattan play strangers invited to the get-rich-quick event. Party on dudes!