Watching The 4400

The Sci Fi Channel’s SCI FI Wire is reporting that Jeffrey Combs is set to return to the character of Dr. Richard Benjamin Vannacutt in the straight to DVD feature, Return to the House on Haunted Hill.

I do have to admit that I haven’t actually seen the original House on Haunted Hill, because, to be perfectly honest, I am really not into horror movies at all. And, yes, I say this even though I have seen Jeffrey Combs’ Re-animator many, many times. I know, I know, I’m just plain weird sometimes.

Completely separate from the fact that sometimes I worry people, the article details some of Jeffrey Combs’ comments from getting the initial call to come back to a character we haven’t seen since 1999, to the fact that they completely reconstructed the sets from that time period in Bulgaria. Along with that, this Direct to DVD release will have many new interactive features using brand-spanking new technology, which was why they chose to make this sequel instead of some other movie sequel, says Mr. Combs. The interactive elements that he talks about really make me want to see this, even though I’m weird enough to watch a sequel without having seen the first movie.

Thinking of original versus sequel, they slip a comment in that I overlooked at first. Jeffrey Combs is the only actor who will be returning from the original movie, which made re-creating some of the props a little more interesting.

Combs was the only actor carried over from the 1999 film. As such, he was able to provide useful insights. “They wanted to replicate the strange, 1930s almost Frankenstein-like goggles that I wore in the first, and they had nothing like that in Bulgaria, so they had to build it from scratch, using old photos and freeze-frames of the [first] movie,” Combs said. “I had a very strong memory of how they felt and looked, so I told them they had to be smaller, or this piece went that way, and by the time it was done, they were a virtual replica.”

Read the whole article here.

IMDB Profile for Return to the House on Haunted Hill.

Warner Bros. Official Movie Site.

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