The movie Clue is hilarious still, though I never saw it till I was in my late teens.
Yeah, of course there's a lot of good jokes that just flew right over my head when I first watched it as a kid.
"
Colonel Mustard: You lure men to their deaths like a spider with flies!" "
Mrs. White: Flies are where men are most vulnerable." "
Colonel Mustard: Right!"
The haunted house game sounds pretty good. Reminds me of
Dungeons and Dragons: Castle Ravenloft which I recently bought but haven't got to play yet, shares the gothic theme and has the different-tiles/never-the-same-board thing going on to, though it's purely cooperative and supposedly damned hard. Nothing will ever replace
HeroQuest in my heart for pure dungeon crawling joy though.
Risk
Monopoly
Stratego
Clue (I also really enjoy the movie. I just wish some of the characters looked a little more like I'm use to in the board game. For example as I recall Mrs.White was in black. Couldn't you make her in something white? Moreover, I'm use to her being a maid. So, naturally I thought the busty maid in the movie was Mrs. White at first. Overall I still enjoyed it though and thought it was very clever.)
I also like games like Settlers of Catan and Munchkin.
I personally really enjoy board games but half the time no one wants to play with me so I have to play them on my phone or something.
In the most recent edition of the game at time of filming, which used photos instead of illustrations, the characters didn't wear their trademark colors.
http://www.theartofmurder.com/table/clueboardgames/us1972/us1972.html And I'd guess they probably thought dressing everyone up in bright primary colors would be distracting.
I like the Munchkin card game but never got around to playing any of the boardgames. I've played Settlers exactly one time and it was ok but just seemed to run on forever, thankfully the guy at the comic shop let us order pizza in.