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Gordon

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Forgotten film title
« on: August 22, 2022, 06:28:04 PM »
Mrs G is trying to remember the title of a film that is maybe 15-20 years old - I wonder if anyone here can help. The plot is along the lines of:

1. Some people get invited to a mansion by the husband on the pretense of a party for his wife - but he intends to bump them off one by one.

2. The house is locked and as the people look for a way out they find that there are booby-traps etc.

3. The may, or may not, be a supernatural element - she can't remember.

4. The final scene is of two survivors climbing out of an upstairs window to find themselves on a ledge high up on an exterior wall with no way down - then the window shuts behind them!

Or something like that - any ideas anyone?

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Re: Forgotten film title
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2022, 12:36:23 PM »
Mrs G is trying to remember the title of a film that is maybe 15-20 years old - I wonder if anyone here can help. The plot is along the lines of:

1. Some people get invited to a mansion by the husband on the pretense of a party for his wife - but he intends to bump them off one by one.

2. The house is locked and as the people look for a way out they find that there are booby-traps etc.

3. The may, or may not, be a supernatural element - she can't remember.

4. The final scene is of two survivors climbing out of an upstairs window to find themselves on a ledge high up on an exterior wall with no way down - then the window shuts behind them!

Or something like that - any ideas anyone?
Not a clue. I've tried lists on IMDB about filns with booby traps but gave up after about 140. There are a lot of elements that I recognise  but not from any one film and not the last element at all

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Re: Forgotten film title
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2022, 08:47:47 AM »
The mystery has been solved - it's the film House on Haunted Hill, which seems to be a remake of the 1959 film of the same title starring Vincent Price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_on_Haunted_Hill_(1999_film)