[UA] House on haunted hill

[Fidel Santiago]

I have watched "House on Haunted Hill
(1999<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_on_Haunted_Hill_%281999_film%29>)"
and "Return to house on haunted hill".

The film sets the action in an abandoned asylum, The Vannacutt Psychiatric
> Institute for the Criminally Insane, where mass-murders were undertaken in
> the past. The head of the facility, Doctor Richard B. Vannacutt (Jeffrey
> Combs), performed grotesque experiments and medical procedures on the
> patients, killing many of them in the process. The hospital was shut down
> when many of the so-called "patients" escaped, killing almost the entire
> staff and burning the hospital. Vannacutt had rigged the building with
> numerous iron gates actuated by cranks and levers to serve, for the most
> part, as barriers to keep patients from leaving the building, should they
> escape. Some of these barriers are subject to huge clock-like timers that
> would not open for twelve hours. During the fire, he released these gates
> keeping the inmates, employees and the fire itself contained. After several
> unexplained deaths during reconstruction on the house, mostly the owners of
> the house, it was dubbed The House on Haunted Hill.


The 1999 film is, for me, better than "Return ..." but the second one tries
to explain the reasons for what happened there: all around a demon symbol,
templars' god "Baphomet".

I think there is a straight translation to UA, apart from the fact that
demons, in UA, can´t interact with the physical world. With or without the
intervention of an ancient demons artefact (Baphomet sculpture in the film),
it is obvious that the grotesque experiments and medical procedures on the
patients" and the fact that a lot of them dead is enough for producing a lot
of lost souls trying to share its own pain with the living. Maybe Vannacutt
is some kind of ultra demon and has made the house a prison, or the artefact
can trap the demon inside.

Vannacutt  asylum can be played in several ways: PCs are trying to get the
artefact, to catch a lot of demons with some dark objective, they are a NI
team trying to clean the house, ...

-- 
Fidel Santiago.
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