Directed by Víctor Garcia and written by William Massa, the film stars Amanda Righetti, Tom Riley, Cerina Vincent and Erik Palladino.

Sara claimed that ghosts of the house residents killed the party guests, and later commits suicide.

Desmond forces Ariel to help him find an artifact located inside the old Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute, a figurine of the demon Baphomet.

These images reveal that Vannacutt was driven mad by the idol, and performed experiments on the mentally ill.

Ariel, Paul, and Dr. Hammer descend to the crematorium and discover the "heart of the house," composed of living flesh.

The ghosts seize Desmond and burn him alive after he has a vision about a patient dying a similar death.

Ali Larter turns down role Dark Castle Entertainment announced it would produce a sequel to House on Haunted Hill (1999) in August 2006, and said it had cast Amanda Righetti in the lead at the same time.

[9] The unrated U.S. release did not contain any interviews, commentaries, or "making of" featurettes, but did include four deleted scenes; a music video for the Mushroomhead song "Simple Survival" (featured on the film's soundtrack); and about 20 minutes of in-character interviews with the leads, which recapped the film's plot or provided limited backstory.

[11] A review in Wired declared the plot and script to be atrocious, saying, "For some reason, the sequel throws in a mysterious idol as the cause of [Vannacutt's] Inherent Evil.

It's an impossibly contrived reason to get people back in the house, and the subplots about suicides and gangsters, is particularly out of place.

The gore factor is adequate, but you won't actually care about anyone who's dying, making this a horrendous waste of time.

"[12] The Web site DVD Talk called the story a "retread", the characters "thinly-written", and the plot device of the Baphomet idol "completely arbitrary".