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House on Haunted Hill is one of the new breed of waste-no-time thrill machines, like Deep Blue Sea, and a particularly effective example at that. The plot is pure contrivance: For a party stunt, a wealthy amusement-park manufacturer (Geoffrey Rush) offers five people a million dollars if they spend the night in a former insane asylum where the patients murdered the sadistic staff. ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher, Chris Kattan
Directed By: William Malone

Expanding their one-joke skit from US television's Saturday Night Live, Chris Kattan and Will Ferrell are Doug and Steve Butabi, the wearers of the rayon suits and Speedo trunks who bob their heads in unison to dance music while unsuccessfully preying on women in clubs. What's funny in a three-minute piece doesn't always get funnier by expansion, but Kattan and Ferrell give it a go with ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Chris Kattan, Will Ferrell, Raquel Gardner, Viveca Paulin, Paulette Braxton
Directed By: Amy Heckerling, John Fortenberry

Manufacturer: Tla Releasing
Starring: Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, Parker Posey, Chris Kattan, Melinda Dillon
Directed By: Craig Chester

Henry Selick's Monkeybone is another of the director's brave experiments in combining various forms of animation following his successes with The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach. Two-dimensional, stop-motion, CGI and muppetry effects whizz by with casual dazzle, but sometimes a collection of great ideas isn't just enough for moviegoers, and audiences ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, John Turturro, Chris Kattan, Giancarlo Esposito
Directed By: Henry Selick

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Don Pardo, Lenny Pickett, Darrell Hammond, G.E. Smith, Tim Meadows
Directed By: Aviva Slesin, Christopher Guest, Claude Kerven, Dave Wilson, James Signorelli

Blaxploitation movies deserve a good spoofing, and Undercover Brother tweaks the subgenre with a few good laughs. But what might have been an Afro-centric Austin Powers (adapted by John Ridley from his Internet film series) is instead a lackluster comedy with one basic joke: "Whitey"--personified as a faceless corporate despot known as "the Man"--has the power, but black folks have ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Eddie Griffin, Denise Richards, Aunjanue Ellis, Chris Kattan, Dave Chappelle
Directed By: Malcolm D. Lee

Manufacturer: Touchstone Home Video
Starring: Chris Kattan, Peter Falk, Vinessa Shaw, Peter Berg, Chris Penn
Directed By: Rob Pritts

Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Starring: Lance Bass, Tommy Davidson, Joey Fatone, Tony Hawk, John Huntington
Directed By: Gregg Backer, Jeff Bowler

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Chris Kattan, Dominique Swain, Tracy Morgan
Directed By: Neal Brennan

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Don Pardo, Lenny Pickett, Darrell Hammond, G.E. Smith, Tim Meadows
Directed By: Aviva Slesin, Christopher Guest, Claude Kerven, Mike DeSeve, Robert Smigel