10 Black Characters That Refused To Die First

9. The House On Haunted Hill (1999) €“ Eddie Baker (played by Taye Diggs)

This remake sees a crazy Geoffrey Rush as an amusement park tycoon who really dislikes his wife. For her birthday he throws her a lavish party in an old insane asylum, as normal people do. Weird things are afoot from the beginning... the souls of the asylum's previous residents have their own kind of party in mind, one that involves locking everyone in and dispatching them one by one in increasingly brutal ways.

Eddie Baker makes it to the end of this limp remake by confusing his ghoulish captors with what has to be the lamest reason anyone, in any horror movie, has come up with as to why he should be spared. But it totally works.

 
Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

Ryan Lynch is a freelance journalist from the United States. He currently lives in Adelaide, Australia and writes for Adelaide-based music magazine Rip It Up. He wishes he could live like Hank Moody, but he watches too much TV and plays too many videogames to be that nonchalant.