Vannacutt when the facility was an asylum to stop patients from escaping. The Psychiatric Institute has a lockdown mechanism which was installed by Dr. Paul and Ariel then left the house as the only survivors.
With the Idol and its power gone from the building, the ghosts were freed from Baphomet's will and crossed over, and the facility came unsealed. The facility's lobby in the 1999 film after being renovatedĭespite the attempts of the Idol, Vannacutt and the other ghosts to stop Ariel, she was able to drop the Idol down the drain and into the sewer, removing it from the house. Ariel removed it and took it to the asylum's washrooms to throw it down a drain and expel it from the house.
Having been told by Ariel's visions where the Baphomet Idol was, Ariel, Paul and Hammer were able to make their way into the Heart of the House, where they found the Idol. Through visions the ghosts showed her, Ariel realized that the group needed to remove the Baphomet Idol to escape. Kyle and Desmond and his team were all killed by the ghosts one by one, while Paul, Ariel and Hammer avoided the ghosts and searched for a way out. However, when Ariel realized that Paul was trapped inside as well, she decided to go back into the asylum for him, and the house let her back in. It is unknown why the house trapped Desmond and his team inside, but it was most likely in case they succeeded in finding the Idol and took it. Hammer and Desmond's team were sealed inside, Ariel was able to escape at the last second. The ghosts reactivated the facility's lockdown, and while Paul, Kyle, Dr. Art dealer Desmond Niles and his team also came to the facility for the Idol, with a hostage Paul and Ariel Wolfe. Richard Hammer and his assistant Kyle arrived at the building to search it for the Baphomet Idol. Eight years after Price's party at the asylum, Dr. However, Sara and Eddie (with the help of Pritchett's ghost) were able to escape through the attic window (which Price was able to reopen before he was absorbed) onto the building's roof before The Darkness could assimilate them.Īfter the incident at the former institute with Steven Price's party, the facility was left abandoned again. The Darkness assimilated Evelyn, Pritchett and Steven, and tried to absorb Sara and Eddie as well. Evelyn framed Steven, and when Steven tried to take revenge on Evelyn for trying to kill him, he threw her through a decaying door into the old, rotted room where The Darkness resided, releasing it. The ghosts killed Melissa, and Blackburn was murdered by Evelyn. The ghosts in the house hacked Price's computer and rewrote the guest list, replacing all but one of the guests (who was secretly invited by Evelyn Price as part of a plot to indirectly murder Steven) with the other descendants of the institute's surviving staff: Jennifer Jenzen, Eddie Baker and Melissa Margaret Marr.Īll of these guests arrived at the asylum (except for Jennifer Jenzen, for whom Sara Wolfe went to the party in her place), and were sealed in with Evelyn and Steven when the ghosts reactivated the asylum's lockdown. Price decided to throw a scary party in the facility. Sixty-eight years after the revolt and subsequent fire in the asylum, millionaire and amusement park mogul Steven H. At some point, Watson Pritchett became the owner of the house. Several attempts were made to reconstruct it over the years, but the workers were killed by the ghosts inhabiting the building before reconstruction could be completed. The Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute, as seen in the 1999 House on Haunted Hill filmįollowing the fire in 1931, the asylum was left abandoned. Vannacutt, who died in the building to remain trapped in the house and to do Baphomet's bidding by trapping and killing nearly anyone else who entered the facility. The Baphomet Idol forced the souls of all the dead staff and inmates, including Dr. A fire started in the sealed, chaotic asylum, and all of the staff and inmates were killed, except for five of Vannacutt's staff.
However, during the revolt, Vannacutt was able to activate the mechanism which sealed the iron gates on all the asylum's doors and windows, thereby trapping the escaped inmates and him and his staff. However, in 1931, one of the inmates led a revolt against the institute's staff. After he was corrupted by the Idol, throughout the early 20th century, Vannacutt began performing gruesome and torturous experiments and medical procedures on the patients. Vannacutt discovered the Baphomet Idol and was corrupted by its evil, he hid the Idol in the heart of the house a chamber the entrance to which was hidden at the back of one of the furnaces in the asylum's crematorium. The Institute was built by the grandfather of Watson Pritchett, and was run by Dr.