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The History and Art of Disney’s Haunted Mansion

I can’t believe after more than 30 years selling Disney art, this is the first time the art Disney’s Haunted Mansion has become available. It inspired me to write about my favorite Disney attraction.

In the many times I’ve gone to Disney World and Disneyland for work or for fun, the Haunted Mansion has always been a highlight, and I’d even say one of the main reasons we’ve gone to the parks. There was one visit in which Disney Studios had closed the park for us to wander around unimpeded, and we went through the mansion repeatedly at near midnight with only friends surrounding us. Those experiences only enhanced what is a magical experience even after waiting hours to ride it, and I should know. I’ve done that, too. That made me curious. What was the process the famous artistic and engineering geniuses at Disney Imagineering that resulted in a ride that has withstood the test of over 50 years and multiple generations? What secrets does it hold? 

The Haunted Mansions for both Disneyland and Disney World were built at the same time, in 1969. By then, they already knew they’d be opening Disney World, so they made two of every element of the attraction.

The idea for it came before Disneyland, way back when Walt was going to create his park across from Disney Studios. The first illustration that included some version of the attraction was drawn by Disney artist Harper Goff, then Disney assigned Imagineer, director, and animator extraordinaire Ken Anderson to create a story, which he did, based on a dilapidated antebellum manor styled after those in and around New Orleans, which he studied copiously in the process of his designs. His house had swarms of bats, boarded up doors and windows, overgrown with weeds. Walt rejected it, thinking a run-down house inside his park sent the wrong message.  Instead, he suggested as inspiration the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, and Anderson took that and ran with it, writing stories about former residents turned evil ghosts. Two imagineers known as integral to the design and engineering of the attraction, Rolly Crump and Yale Gracey took his stories and brought them to life for the park. The Haunted Mansion was expected to open in 1963, and construction started in 1962, with the exterior finished by 1963. 

It was largely inspired and modeled after a Victorian Era manor called the Shipley-Lydecker House in Baltimore Maryland.

Famed animator and background artist Marc Davis and Claude Coats partnered in the feel of the ride’s interior, with Coats contributing the scarier elements and Davis bringing a comedic and less spooky quality. Plans for an opening stalled first because of the New York World’s Fair, then because of Walt’s death in 1966. After Walt passed, there were a few major changes to the ride. They scrapped an idea for a “Museum of the Weird, which would include a restaurant like the Blue Bayou at the Pirates of the Caribbean. What was once going to be a walk-through attraction became one with what became the famous “Doom Buggies”. 

The Haunted Mansion at finally Disneyland premiered opened with a press event at midnight on August 12th, with an opening for the public later that morning. It was an immediate success. Within a week of opening, Disneyland celebrated its highest single-day attendance. 

One thing that makes the attraction special is the wonderful Ghost Host. Foolish mortals are welcomed to the mansion by a disembodied voice, originally supplied by one of the most famous voices in animation, Paul Frees . Even legendary voice artist Mel Blanc called Frees “The Man of a Thousand Voices”. Not only did Frees have a long and storied career with Disney, he also provided voices for Rocky and Bullwinkle’s Boris Badenov, was featured in nearly every Rankin Bass stop-motion cartoon, he was also the voice of Mr. Granite in The Flintstones, and played both John Lennon and George Harrison in a Beatles cartoon. The Ghost Host is also known as Master Grace, named in tribute to Yale Gracey. 

Here is a vid with some early outtakes of his recordings as the Ghost Host:

As to the features of the attraction itself, there’s so much to love. A friend of mine bought the original stretching portraits from the Haunted Mansion a few years ago when Disney was foolish enough to get rid of them and that made me curious about their origin. There are four portraits, including a balding man, an old woman, a brown-haired man, and, my favorite, a tightrope walker. In an early script for the Haunted Mansion, the balding man was an ambassador named Alexander Nitrokoff. The old woman stretches to show her late husband’s bust. The brown-haired man is identified in the comics created in 2005, he and the two men sitting on each others’ shoulders are gamblers called Hobbs, Big Hobbs, and Skinny Hobbs. The tightrope walker has many alias, with Disney cast members calling her Lillian Gracey and the comics dubbing her Daisy de la Cruz. They say she’s a witch who turns men into crocodiles. I LIKE IT! Madame Leota might be the most popular character inside the mansion. She is a psychic medium originally voiced by Eleanor Audley, who voiced both Cinderella’s Lady Tremaine and Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty. Her face is based on imagineer Leota Toombs. 

Of course one of the best moments on the ride is the ballroom dancers, usually called the Waltzing Dead by fans. There are a total of 12 dancers, 6 women and 6 men, that dance as couples. In the Ghost Gallery , which is a notebook written by cast members at the Magic Kingdom’s Haunted Mansion in which they created biographies for all the attractions’ characters, the ballroom dancers are meant to be souls of folks who attended a party at Gracey Manor, only to be cursed by Madame Leota for neglecting her.    

Lastly and perhaps most memorable, the ride features the groundskeeper, his mangy pup, and the hitchhiking ghosts. The groundskeeper is sometimes referred to as The Caretaker, and there’s some question as to whether the shovel he holds is for his grounds work or for a second career grave robbing. In the comics, he is identified as Horace Fusslebottom. 

The hitchhiking ghosts have become a thing of their own legend. They are referred to as Gus (The Prisoner), Ezra (The Skeleton) and Phineas (The Traveler), but those names are believed to have been invented by cast members and subsequently spread by visitors to the attraction. The Ghost Gallery imagines them as three cellmates at the Salem Asylum for the Criminally Insane. 

It was a thrill when I was surprised a few days ago with what felt like, after so many years without any art, an avalanche of interpretive images of The Haunted Mansion was released by Disney Fine Art.

Click on any image above to find out more about the art, or you can see all the Haunted Mansion images by going to our Haunted Mansion art page HERE .

I’ll leave you with a wonderful clip from a 1970 Wonderful World of Disney episode in which Kurt Russell guides us through the Haunted Mansion at Disney:

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#ThrowbackThursday: Happy Haunts Materialize Inside Haunted Mansion at Disneyland Park

by Michael Ramirez , Public Relations Director, Disneyland Resort

With Halloween just a few days away, it’s a frightfully fitting opportunity to unearth some Haunted Mansion magic from a time before the foreboding estate in Disneyland park was inhabited by a lively collection of 999 happy haunts! 

For our first-ever Haunted Mansion-themed #ThrowbackThursday, we’ve partnered with the Walt Disney Archives and Walt Disney Imagineering Art Collection to dig up some early imagery and artwork that is sure to make you shriek with delight. 

Our “grave” journey into the past begins with a look at the hauntingly beautiful mansion itself… The idea for a haunted house experience, which later evolved into the Haunted Mansion we know today, was included in a concept design sketch by Imagineer and Disney Legend Harper Goff all the way back in 1952, when Disneyland was still being conceptualized. Harper’s artwork originally placed the attraction adjacent to Main Street, U.S.A.

Designers originally wanted to make the outside of the mansion look rundown and abandoned. Walt Disney, however, wanted to keep the outside looking like a stately mansion, letting ghosts take care of the inside. 

Inside the Mansion, there’s a labyrinth of spooky surprises! The Walt Disney Archives shared an early image of Imagineer and Disney Legend Blaine Gibson sculpting a “pop-up” ghost in 1968… with a confused frog looking on, too!

Illusions and special effects are part of what make the Haunted Mansion a beloved attraction. Imagineer and Disney Legend Yale Gracey was captured with the infamous Hatbox Ghost in this early photo. You may know that the Hatbox Ghost appeared in the Haunted Mansion for a short time around the opening of this attraction in 1969. However, he materialized to much fanfare once again in 2015.

These last three vibrant illustrations were created by Disney Legend Colin Campbell for the 1969 album “The Story and Song From The Haunted Mansion.” Colin’s original illustrations for the album reside in the Walt Disney Archives collection.

The spooky specter materializing inside the Haunted Mansion, Hatbox Ghost, was also featured on the record album artwork.

This last illustration from “The Story and Song From The Haunted Mansion” showcases the famous ballroom scene featuring some of the mansion’s residents.

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The Long, Long Haunt: Artists of Walt’s Haunted Mansion

Happy Halloween! From its earliest ideas, Disneyland always had a “spook house,” and over nearly two decades of development, the project became a veritable “Who’s Who” of Walt’s most gifted artists and Imagineers. Disney Historian Ed Squair offers this overview of The Haunted Mansion exclusively for Storyboard.

The first was Harper Goff, the famed designer of the distinctive submarine Nautilus in   20,000 Leagues Under the Sea . In 1951, Goff first sketched a haunted house for Disneyland Park, situated high on a hill behind a church on Main Street USA.

Ken Anderson, sometimes known as “The Tenth Old Man,” is believed to be responsible for a 1957 elevation drawing of a “haunted house” to be situated to the west of Adventureland. Later, Ken was the first to sketch the exterior of the Mansion much as it was built—but somewhat more dilapidated in appearance. While Walt Disney insisted nothing should look shabby in Disneyland, it seems there was a faction of Imagineers who believed you couldn’t build a haunted house that wasn’t run down. Anderson tried to sneak the dilapidated Mansion by Walt’s sensibilities by shrouding the building behind thick trees, so it couldn’t be seen from Disneyland proper, only discovered by Guests as they wound their way up the path onto the Mansion grounds.

Anderson also drew up a detailed script and map for a fully-realized walk-through version of the attraction, complete with a “lonesome” ghost host, and a bride and ghoul wedding scene as a climax to the action. Guests exited this mansion by walking out the family tomb, and up through open graves into the cemetery behind the house.

Artist Sam McKim contributed to the mansion’s development by adapting Anderson’s sketch of the dilapidated mansion into a full-color painting. Despite it’s run-down appearance, this is probably the best-known exterior view of the Mansion there is.

Imagineer Rolly Crump worked on Haunted Mansion effects from the earliest experiments with the “Pepper’s Ghost” effect, done in the Animation Building on the studio lot in the 1950’s, through to WED Enterprises’ (now Walt Disney Imagineering) establishment in their own offices in Glendale.

He recounted a research trip in which Walt Disney went with his team of Mansion developers to see the low budget 1960 Roger Corman shocker   13 Ghosts   as research for the attraction show. If you’ve seen the film, you’ll know it shares with the Haunted Mansion the common image of transparent ghosts of specific character—a lion tamer, a headless man, etc.—but little else.

(As an interesting side note, Rolly once assured me that no one looked to the 1963 film   The Haunting   for inspiration—though its influence can clearly be seen in the stretching, almost   breathing   door in the Mansion’s upstairs corridor. Rolly did also confide, however, that different teams were working on the project, sometimes at the same time, without anyone but Walt knowing what all of them were doing).

Rolly Crump really caught Walt’s attention, though, with his bizarre designs for objects inside The Haunted Mansion. Walt couldn’t see them fitting within the show story, but he liked them so much he proposed having the attraction empty Guests into a “Museum of the Weird,” which would feature Crump’s designs as oddities collected from around the globe. Sadly, with Walt’s passing the idea of that museum did not last, and today Crump’s influence on the Mansion can best be seen in some of the chairs that have the distinct appearance of human-like faces in their stitched seams.

Imagineering’s focus on the attractions for the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair put a halt to development of the Mansion. After the Fair, Marc Davis picked up the torch of trying to develop a Haunted Mansion attraction that would both move Guests through in a timely manner and follow a cohesive story. His script is somewhat sketchier than Anderson’s earlier script was, concerned more with giving general impressions than literally mapping out each moment of the attractions scenes and dialogue. Marc’s script is also the first to start with the elevator room that, by then, was determined to be needed to deliver Guests underneath the berm and train tracks at Disneyland and into a soundstage-like show building beyond.

He doesn’t start his story there, but in the first room, a portrait gallery of former residents of the Mansion. Further scenes include a fully alive séance medium (a forerunner of Madame Leota) and a room full of retired ghosts who take turns showing off their best scaring abilities. While Davis designed most of the humorous scenes associated with the second half of the Mansion, Imagineer Claude Coats is attributed with designing the evocatively empty—but nevertheless creepy—corridors, rooms, and hallways in the first half of the ride.

A recurring problem with all the walk-through versions of the Mansion show was the problem of traffic flow. Simply put, the Mansion had to be able to move a large number of people through every hour, difficult to obtain with small groups moving from room to room (and perhaps, small children becoming scared and refusing to move on in a timely manner!). This was settled with the Omnimover ride system, created by Roger Broggie and Bert Brundage. It created a constantly moving stream of vehicles, famously dubbed “Doom Buggies,” that could be individually turned to focus on scenes, as fit the show, and insure the Guests keep moving at an even pace.

It would be shortsighted to list the great contributors to the Mansion’s development without giving a nod to Imagineer Leota Toombs. Toombs lent both her name and face to Madame Leota, conducting her ghostly séance from inside her crystal ball, and Little Leota, the tiny figure that calls visitors to “Hurry Baaaack…” as they depart the mansion. (Little Leota was also voiced by Toombs, while the medium’s voice was Eleanor Audley, the voice of Lady Tremaine in   Cinderella   and Maleficent in   Sleeping Beauty .)

Imagineer X. Atencio contributed one of the last scripts for the Mansion, dated roughly a year before the attraction opened in 1969. All of the elements of the show as it premiered were in his script, with the slight addition of one final attempt to thread a continuous storyline through the ride. The Ghost Host draws our attention to a raven wearing a distinctive necklace several times throughout the mansion, only to reveal at the end that he himself is the raven, and intends to possess one of the Guests as they leave. Atencio’s script also ends with a rough version of his iconic “Grim Grinning Ghosts,” the distinctive song that would become synonymous with the attraction itself.  

While too many cooks may spoil the broth, the same clearly doesn’t apply to Imagineers and Haunted Mansions. The attraction remains a hybrid of many influences—part funny, part scary, part a walk-through, and part a ride—it is no one thing that any of its many contributors set out for it to be. One thing the Mansion clearly is, however, is one of the most popular and enduring attractions of the Disney parks—and a living legacy of Walt Disney’s ability to not only recognize creative geniuses, but to get them together to create something greater than the sum of its parts.  

Since 1993, Ed Squair has worked for The Walt Disney Company in roles ranging from managing the Photo Library to writing about Disney history, and most recently, in social media strategy. The Haunted Mansion has always been a special interest of his, and the subject of several of his articles to date.

Images above: 1) An early design for the "Haunted House," c. 1957. © Disney. 2) Sam McKim's iconic painting, based on Ken Anderson's pencil sketch. © Disney .

Disney's Haunted Mansion Comes to Life in These Boo-tiful Art Pieces

Disney's haunted mansion comes to life in these boo-tiful art pieces, the spooky attractions at disneyland and magic kingdom are among the properties getting limited edition posters at the d23 expo..

If you’re a Disney fan who collects pop culture art, you’ve pretty much got it made . Every movie, every character, basically any weird thing you love under the Disney umbrella usually has accompanying art for it that you can own.

The one area where that’s a little less prevalent, however, is artwork related directly to theme park rides . The company is usually rather protective over its rides and though pieces are made for sale in the parks and at related Disney events, it’s much rarer to find a good one than, say, a poster for a popular animated movie .

Well, the balance is beginning to shift a bit at this weekend’s D23 Expo . Cyclops Print Works has some very, very cool pieces based on t he Haunted Mansion rides in both Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom and Disneyland, and io9 is excited to exclusively debut a few of them. You see a tease above, but click through the slideshow to see them all. We’ve got exclusive Haunted Mansion pieces by J.C Richard, as well as a beautiful Zootopia piece by Joy Ang and new pieces by favorites Eric Tan (tackling Luca ) and Shag (also tackling Haunted Mansion .)

All of these will first be available at the Cyclops booth at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, CA this weekend. There you can also meet Shag at 2 p.m. PST Friday, Tan from 2:30-3:30 p.m. PST Saturday, and Richard at noon-1 p.m. daily.

Disneyland’s The Haunted Mansion by JC Richard

This 12-color, 24 x 24 inch screenprint comes in an edition of 190.

Walt Disney World’s The Haunted Mansion by JC Richard

This 16-color, 24 x 24 inch screenprint comes in an edition of 190.

Hitchhiking Ghost Handbill #1 by JC Richard

Richard did three Hitchhiking Ghost handbills that will be given out free with each purchase of a Haunted Mansion print. If you buy just one, you’ll get one of the 5 x 5 inch ghosts— which will be different each day of the fest— or if you buy both pieces, you get a 15 x 5 inch uncut sheet.

Hitchhiking Ghost Handbill #2 by JC Richard

Hitchhiking Ghost Handbill #3 by JC Richard

Hitchhiking Ghost Handbills Uncut by JC Richard

Zootopia by Joy Ang

This 20 x 30 inch screenprint will be available at the Cyclops Print Works booth.

999 Happy Haunts by Shag

This 17- color, 25.5 x 39 inch print is in an edition of 200.

La Grande Corsa by Eric Tan

This 18 x 27 inch print is in an edition of 200.

Machiavelli by Eric Tan

The Untold History of the Iconic Wallpaper in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion

If you really want to know the story of the Haunted Mansion's wallpaper, you need to take a trip to Oceanside, California, where the man who created it lives. His name is Rolly Crump — yes, really — and even he didn't know at first that he deserved credit for the now-famous design.

"When someone told me that they liked the designs I did for the wallpaper, I said, 'What designs? What wallpaper?'" the octogenarian Imagineer recalls. "I didn't know what the hell they were talking about."

But to get to that point in the story, we have to go back.

Since opening its doors in 1969, 14 years after Disneyland began welcoming visitors, the Haunted Mansion has become a topic of fascination for fans of old-school Disney facts and lore. There are the urban legends, of course (that the house is haunted by real ghosts), but it's the insane attention to detail — "999 happy haunts," to be exact — that makes it one of the most immersive and transporting experiences in amusement park history. It's also one of the last things Walt Disney worked on before he died, so for some, it represents a final connection to his creative spirit.

‌ (Image: Haunted Mansion postcard circa 1978 courtesy MetaGrrrl/Flickr Creative Commons ) ‌

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But of all the Haunted Mansion's details, only the black-and-purple wallpaper — which at first appears to be simply an oversize damask, but upon closer look is revealed to comprise creepy clusters of eyes — has attained true cult status. Guillermo del Toro reportedly has a reproduction in his home; Etsy offers everything from phone cases to umbrellas sporting versions of the print. "It's really become a symbol of the Mansion," says Jason Surrell, author of ‌ The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic ‌ , and a former senior show writer for Walt Disney Imagineering. Most people gravitate toward it, he believes, because the design is "striking, iconic in its own right." But for a certain subset, it represents something else: "The wallpaper, it's one of those subtle things. It's a way you can subtly express your fandom … it's like a secret code for coolness," he explains.

But for all the infatuation surrounding the wallpaper, its origins remain relatively unexplored. Many credit Marc Davis — one of the Imagineers who worked on the Haunted Mansion — as its maker. That's not the case — which brings us back to Rolly Crump . Crump, now in his late eighties, is the last remaining designer who worked on the ride. He lives in a modest condo in Oceanside that doesn't fully reflect his colorful career or his star status among worshippers of the Church of Disney. Only a few of his illustrations line his home's walls; he sold almost all of his expansive collection of art and memorabilia in a 2018 auction.

Crump's artistic style is distinctive: it can sometimes feel like a midcentury-circus-Tiki dream with lots of detailed embellishments, elongated figures, and a tendency to embrace the off-kilter, the taboo, the weird. It's what first caught Disney's attention when he saw Crump's work in the company's Animation department.

"I had had a show in the library at the Disney studio and that show was marijuana posters," Crump remembers. The illustrations on display there were like old-timey advertisements for pot — one read "imported by Stoned and Co." When he heard that Disney himself had wandered into his gallery, Crump panicked. "Oh my god … did he read the posters?" he wondered. "Yes," said the woman running the library. "And he laughed!"

Crump's transition from Animation to WED (the branch that would ultimately become Imagineering) happened quickly, and in 1959, he was brought in to work on the Haunted Mansion, which had already been in development for at least two years.

"The wallpaper, it's one of those subtle things. It's a way you can subtly express your fandom … it's like a secret code for coolness." — Jason Surrell

But what that meant at the time wasn't quite clear. "They decided to put Yale Gracie, who was a background illustrator, and I, together in a big room up at the studio to work on the Mansion. And so Yale and I sat up there and I said, 'Well, what do we do?' and Yale said, 'Well, I dunno!' Because there was no given thing to do. It was just: 'Work on some stuff for the Mansion.'"

Ultimately, there was a point of disagreement among the team. "At that time," says Crump, "a lot of different people started getting involved with [the development] — the architecture, the look, the interiors." In one camp were the Imagineers who wanted the ride to be fun. In the other were those looking to create a scary experience. Crump was firmly seated in the latter.

He started doing random sketches, taking inspiration from the 1946 French movie, ‌ Beauty and the Beast ‌. "I fell in love with that film because they had human parts in the rooms ... there would be these human arms [acting as] torches. I thought, 'Shit that's good stuff,' because it was imaginative and surreal, and so I started leaning in that direction."

‌ (Images: Left, Plant Man illustration, courtesy Rolly Crump; right, Mansion wallpaper, courtesy ste3ve/Flickr Creative Commons ) ‌

These drawings — of things like a melty-looking man whose arms were candelabra, a gypsy wagon, a man-eating plant — led to a concept that was never realized: the Museum of the Weird. It was to be a transitional space at the ride's exit featuring Crump's illusions and creations, an idea, he says, he can't take credit for. That was all Disney: "You know, Walt always took everything we did to the next level. Nobody really realizes that Walt was really behind damn near everything we did. Once he got a kind of inkling of the project we were working on, he ‌ immediately ‌ saw it finished. So as we were starting to execute it, all of a sudden you realize, well, ‌ he ‌ knew what the hell we were doing."

At the time of Disney's death in 1966, two designers, Claude Coats and Marc Davis, were working on completing the Mansion. Over the years and leading up to the attraction's opening, the team was pulling inspiration for the look of the house from a book by Frances Lichten called ‌ Decorative Art of Victoria's Era ‌ , and as you flip through the pages, you see how the book directly impacted the Mansion's design. For starters, in a section on cast iron motifs, there's a picture of the Shipley-Lydecker house , which the team replicated with frightening exactness. (The original home in Baltimore is no longer standing, in case you're wondering.) Lichten's book also features multiple examples of rooms with damask prints and wallpapers.

When the team finally got around to creating a wallpaper for that section of the ride, Coats worked off of an illustration Crump had done for the Museum of the Weird — what Crump calls the "plant man" — and positioned it in a pattern that feels very directly inspired by Victorian-era damask. "What Claude had done was found all my sketches and traced them. And made wallpaper out of them," says Crump.

"Walt always took everything we did to the next level. Nobody really realizes that Walt was really behind damn near everything we did. Once he got a kind of inkling of the project we were working on, he ‌ immediately ‌ saw it finished. So as we were starting to execute it, all of a sudden you realize, well, ‌ he ‌ knew what the hell we were doing." — Rolly Crump

Was he angry about his designs being repurposed? No. "That type of thing happened all the time. I did the original paintings in the stretch elevator and Marc [Davis] came to me one day and said, 'I'm going to redo those stretch paintings, yours were no good.' At that time, I thought he'd do a better job at them anyway."

As for the wallpaper in the Mansion's foyer before the elevator, which is also beloved by Disney fans: That's a reproduction of a Christopher Dresser design produced by Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers. The company's wallpapers, by the way, are used throughout Disney properties worldwide, mostly in the Main Street stores, a representative told Hunker over email. (FYI for anyone hoping to actually wallpaper their home in the Mansion's purple design, you're out of luck. Surrell says that there's likely no hidden storage unit with rolls of Haunted Mansion wallpaper waiting around for ride refurbishment. "Things like that are just generated new," he explains.)

But it's Crump's work that has truly given the Mansion definition. After all, his wallpaper appears in Mansion rides in Disney parks in Florida, Tokyo, and Paris (even though Disneyland Paris's Phantom Manor has a completely different plot). "That's kind of a testament to the wallpaper being a touchstone, being an iconic element of the Haunted Mansion," Surrell says. "Even though a number of other things were changed, adapted, and evolved, they kept that wallpaper exact."

‌ (Top wallpaper image: patdavid/Flickr Creative Commons ; portraits of Rolly Crump, Stephen Paul for Hunker) ‌

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Haunted Mansion

July 28, 2023

Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror

Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, “Haunted Mansion” is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.

Rated: PG-13 Runtime: 2h 3min Release Date: July 28, 2023

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(L-R): Chase Dillon as Travis, Rosario Dawson as Gabbie, LaKeith Stanfield as Ben, Owen Wilson as Father Kent, and Tiffany Haddish as Harriet in Disney's HAUNTED MANSION. Photo by Jalen Marlowe. © 2023 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

(L-R): Chase Dillon as Travis and Rosario Dawson as Gabbie in Disney's live-action HAUNTED MANSION. Photo courtesy of Disney. © 2023 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

A scene from Disney's live-action HAUNTED MANSION. Photo courtesy of Disney. © 2023 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

(L-R): Owen Wilson as Father Kent, Danny DeVito as Bruce, Rosario Dawson as Gabbie, and Tiffany Haddish as Harriet in Disney's live-action HAUNTED MANSION. Photo by Jalen Marlowe. © 2023 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

(L-R): Rosario Dawson as Gabbie, Tiffany Haddish as Harriet, LaKeith Stanfield as Ben, and Owen Wilson as Father Kent in Disney's live-action HAUNTED MANSION. Photo Jalen Marlowe. © 2023 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

(L-R): Tiffany Haddish as Harriet, Rosario Dawson as Gabbie, LaKeith Stanfield as Ben, and Danny DeVito as Bruce in Disney's live-action HAUNTED MANSION. Photo by Jalen Marlowe. © 2023 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Jamie Lee Curtis as Madame Leota in Disney's HAUNTED MANSION. Photo courtesy of Disney. © 2023 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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