Return to House on Haunted Hill is a 2007 directtoDVD horror film and the sequel to the 1999 film House on Haunted Hill. Directed by Vctor Garca, the film depicts a group of people searching for a mysterious idol hidden inside a haunted psychiatric asylum. Nearly everyone is killed during the search by supernatural forces, which seem to be connected to the idol.
Ariel discovers a diary written by Dr. Vannacutt that reveals the history of the Institute. She and her friend Paul Tom Riley are then kidnapped by an unscrupulous art dealer, Desmond Niles Erik Palladino, who knows a great deal about Sara and Vannacutts hospital. Ariel quickly realises that Sara didnt commit suicide Desmond killed her. Desmond forces Ariel to help him find an artifact allegedly located inside the old Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute, a figurine of the demon Baphomet. While Desmonds henchman Samuel Andrew Pleavin holds Paul captive outside the asylum, Ariel, Desmond, and four of Desmonds accomplices enter the building. Once inside, they encounter Dr. Richard Hammer Steven Pacey. Dr. Hammer has been lured into the asylum by his assistants Kyle AndrewLee Potts and Michelle Cerina Vincent. Desmond is one of Dr. Hammers former students, and Michelle is Desmonds lover. Michelle seduced Dr. Hammer to learn what he knew about the sanatorium and the Baphomet idol, and then lured Hammer and Kyle into the asylum so they could help search for the statue.Several loud noises are heard, and Ariel explains that the building has been rigged to keep everyone inside for at leasthours. The group splits up to search for the idol Desmond with Ariel, Michelle with Richard, and Kyle with Desmonds accomplice Norris Gil Kolirin. The remaining henchmen, Warren Chucky Venice and Harue Kalita Rainford, each go off alone. Warren is killed when his body is sucked into a wall when he receives a vision about a patient being locked inside the wall, set up by Vannacutt. Harue is seduced by several lesbian ghosts, and has a vision about Vannacut ordering his staff to kill them in their electric head bands. She dies when her face is sliced off by the ghostly Dr. Vannacutt. Ariel is separated from Desmond and dragged into a padded cell. The ghost of a dead inmate George Zlatarev traumatizes her by showing Ariel the depravity he and the other inmates suffered under Dr. Vannacutt. Th
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