Haunted Mansion (2023)– now lacking a definite article in its title– is the story of a widower named Ben (played by Atlanta’s LaKeith Stanfield) who has abandoned his career as an astrophysicist to become a depressed, bitter New Orleans tour guide in the wake of his wife’s car-accident death. Now they’ve tried again, and while the new Haunted Mansion effort has its moments, I fear it may be another nail in the proverbial coffin for Disney’s luck with movies lately. The movie did just okay at the box office and fell completely flat with critics, failing to capture the magic that the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise had begun to generate earlier that same year. 20 years ago, Walt Disney Studios made its first attempt at adapting the classic late-1960s theme park attraction The Haunted Mansion into a major motion picture.
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