Poor William Castle. The gimmick filmmaker may be dead, but his spirit sort of lives on in this gory remake of his classic black and white chiller about a family trapped inside a house with a spirited baker’s dozen. What was once a simple but effective idea has been turned into a larger-than-life but ultimately less satisfying fun house attraction. Director Steve Beck does manages to wrangle a modicum of thrills from the premise, and the cast seems up to the challenge, but the plot relies more on gore than chills to make its point.
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