Dark Castle Entertainment's second re-doing of a William Castle original (their first being 1999's House On Haunted Hill) this time the 1960 original is given a modern update as Tony Shalhoub and his two children inherit a house from their odd uncle Cyrus (F. Murray Abraham) that turns out to be quite a mammoth beast of a house that's made entirely of glass, has walls covered with invisible "incantations" and has a basement filled with the number of ghosts in the title. Seems Uncle has been capturing ghosts and with the help of psychic Matthew Lillard, Shalhoub and family have to try and stay alive after the ghosts get free from their containment cells.

Directed like an MTV video with all sorts of quick flashes and kinetic energy this has lots of cool make-up effects and a few good deaths (such as the "door cutting in half" moment) but suffers from scripting that's a bit muddy and has characters that just seem to go in and out of the story when the scripters thought it convient (the kids go missing for a long length of time only to appear later captive with no explaination how).

Take out all the neat ghosts and you have a passable effort that's written sloppily and has plenty of lapses in logic (if they can take a piece of the library wall to shield them with ease why can't the do the same to escape the house?). Pretty piss-poor.

As a homage to the original the characters here have to wear "special glasses" in order to see the ghosts.

Directed By: Steve Beck.
Written By: Richard D'Ovidio, Neal Marshall Stevens.

Starring: Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Shannon Elizabeth.