I’m really more of an action-adventure-with-horror-elements type of person more than a slow burn horror guy, even though I do enjoy those a lot. It kind of goes back to my adventure/horror roots. They liked the idea of the treasure hunt within a haunted house. When it came time for this movie, they were reaching out to writers and I came in to pitch my story. I just pitched them different things, and became a little bit of a go-to person, especially with Erik Olsen.
“But that led to working on a TV movie for them, a kind of ‘page one’ dialogue rewrite. They were very happy with it, even though the movie didn’t work out different reasons. The pitch was ‘ Blade Runner meets Seven’.
“One was a spec script that I sold called Droid, no relation to Star Wars, that was kind of like a futuristic serial killer movie involving androids.
Massa notes, describing how he first came to be involved with the Haunted Hill series. “I’d worked on a couple of projects for Joel Silver,” Mr.
Massa did caution that there is little in the way of information on what the third film’s story might have entailed given that it never made it beyond the pitching stage, he nevertheless provides some tantalizing glimpses at this sequel that might have been and where he envisioned the franchise going, all while shining a light on Dark Castle’s plans for a long-running series of sequels to not only Haunted Hill, but other horror properties as well.
Joining us for this article is novelist William Massa ( The Paranormalist), who penned the screenplay for Return to House on Haunted Hill, Victor Garcia’s 2007 straight-to-video follow-up to William Malone’s 1999 remake of the original Castle film. With this installment, we’ll be looking at The Curse of the House on Haunted Hill, the potential third film in the Dark Castle franchise based upon William Castle’s classic 1959 Vincent Price spookfest. Here, we will be chatting with the creators of these unmade extremities to gain their unique insight into these follow-ups that never were, with the discussions standing as hopefully illuminating but undoubtedly painful reminders of what might have been. Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly lopped off before making it beyond the planning stages.
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