Vannacutt (Jeffrey Combs) and his associates were especially fond of operating on patients without using an anesthetic. Remake begins on a genuinely unsettling note, as the inmates of a Depression-era insane asylum launch a bloody rebellion against the sadistic staffers who have long tormented them. Even more than the name change, Geoffrey Rush’s slyly allusive performance comes off as a wink-wink homage to the original pic’s star. In this version, the suavely sardonic host - known as Frederick Loren back when he was played by Vincent Price - is Stephen Price, the multimillionaire owner-designer of frightfully exciting amusement parks. Screenwriter Dick Beebe recycles a few key plot elements from Robb White’s 1958 scenario, but greatly expands upon the guests-in-a-haunted-house premise.
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