Meanwhile, Sara and Eddie find Vannacut's office.

Blackburn volunteers to stay behind to guard Price, but when the others leave he turns the chamber on, leaving Price to be tortured by the moving images and ghostly hallucinations until it drives him catatonic. The remaining guests lock Price in the 'Saturation Chamber', an archaic device that Vannacut used to treat schizophrenics. Sara nearly shoots him, but Eddie knocks him out before either one can kill the other. Furious, Price pulls a gun on the guests, demanding to know which one of them killed his wife. Shortly after, Evelyn dies in front of the others, when they find she has been strapped to an electroshock therapy table. Vannacutt walking around with a bloody scalpel. On the surveillance monitor he sees the ghost of Dr. Price visits his assistant Schechter, who is supposed to be managing the party stunts, but finds him horribly mutilated. Melissa disappears when she wanders off in the basement, leaving behind a massive trail of blood. However, the two are separated, and Sara is nearly drowned in a tank of blood by a ghost impersonating Eddie, though the real Eddie arrives in time to save her. She attended the party in Jennifer's place because she needed the prize money. As Eddie and Jennifer explore the dungeon-like basement, Jennifer confesses to Eddie that her real name is Sara Wolfe, and that she's an out-of-work assistant to the real Jennifer Jenzen. Price believes the trap is a stunt organized by Evelyn. After finding some hand guns, Jennifer, Eddie and Pritchett decide to take one of the guns and search the basement for the machinery which controls the gates.

The security gates are tripped, locking everyone inside. Those who die forfeit their $1 million to the survivors. Despite this, Price continues the party's theme, offering $1 million to each guest who stays in the house and survives until morning. The guests are not the ones Price invited and neither Evelyn nor Price know who they are. Donald Blackburn ( Peter Gallagher), and Pritchett himself. Five guests arrive for the party - Jennifer Jenzen (Ali Larter), Eddie Baker (Taye Diggs), Melissa Margaret Marr ( Bridgette Wilson), Dr. She gives Price a lengthy guest list he shreds it to spite her and then creates one of his own. At Evelyn's insistence, Price leases the house from the owner, Watson Pritchett ( Chris Kattan), for her birthday party. In 1999, Evelyn Stockard-Price (Famke Janssen), a spoiled trophy wife, is in a disintegrating marriage with Steven Price (Geoffrey Rush), an amusement park mogul with a wicked sense of humor. The patients start a fire which engulfs the building, killing all of the inmates and all but five of the staff.

In 1931 the mental patients at the Vannacutt Institute for the Criminally Insane revolt against the staff headed by the sadistic Dr.

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