You know...House on Haunted Hill was a decent remake. It was different, Chris Kattan added in some comedic moments, Geoffrey Rush was pretty great in the main role that Vincent Price played in the original film. I can see the good in that movie, along with the bad, so I'm not someone who is completely opposed to remakes or any changes made from the original films.
That being said, Thirteen Ghosts was just bad. It has almost nothing to do with the original film, aside from the glasses that allow you to see ghosts. Sure, both families inherit a haunted house and the lawyer is questionable af, but. That's it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The remake is about a glass house that shifts constantly. It's a maze. New ghosts are released every hour (I think, I hated the movie too much to go back and watch it again for the sake of this post), and it's all according to the "Black Zodiac." The movie stars Matt Lillard, and that would be fine in a movie like Scream that's poking fun at itself, but the "comedy" felt out of place, the plot was a mess, and it was boring.
I highly recommend the original film. It's a classic haunted house tale. Plus, it's a William Castle film, if you buy the DVD, it comes with the ghost viewer that was given out in theaters when the movie was released. Looking through one side hides the ghosts if you're too afraid and looking through the other side allows you to see the ghosts. It's a gimmick, but William Castle knew how to put on a show and it made his films unique. I wish that for Halloween, they would screen 13 Ghosts, House on Haunted Hill and The Tingler the way they did when the movies first came out. I want the ghost glasses, I want to see a skeleton fly across the theater, I want the little jolt when [SPOILERS] the Tingler escapes in the movie theater. And hell, while we're at it, House of Wax (which happens to be a remake itself, of Mystery of the Wax Museum) may not have been a William Castle film, but screen that in 3D, too.
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