Haunted Mansion: release date, trailer, cast, plot and everything we know about the movie (2024)

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"With a star-studded cast including Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson, and Tiffany Haddish, the film promises strong performances to keep fans interested." "Fans can look forward to the release of The Haunted Mansion on July 28, 2023, after some changes in the initial release date."

A woman and her son enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters.

Haunted Mansion / Film synopsis

Widowed doctor Gabbie and her son Travis move into the abandoned Gracey Manor, which they hope to turn into a bed and breakfast, only to discover the mansion is infested with ghosts. Father Kent, an exorcist helping Gabbie, hires Ben to photograph Gracey Manor's ghosts.

Haunted Mansion 2 has not been confirmed by Disney, but it's still a possibility despite the underperformance of the 2023 movie. The success of the 2023 Haunted Mansion on Disney+ will determine whether a sequel is greenlit, with a potential release as a Disney+ exclusive.

Haunted Mansion had even more fun that didn't make the final cut. PEOPLE has an exclusive never-before-seen deleted scene from the Disney film, featuring LaKeith Stanfield, Owen Wilson, Chase Dillon and Winona Ryder.

In the film, a man named Alistair Crump (Jared Leto) is behind all the hauntings and mysterious deaths. He killed party guests and servants alike in his own mansion, Crump Manor, until the staff revolted and chopped his head off. Crump's ghost shows up in Master Gracey's mansion after Leota accidentally summons him.

The attraction is based on the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California which Walt Disney actually visited. Many characters featured in the attraction, such as Master Gracey and Madame Leota, are named after Disney Imagineers, such as Yale Gracey and Leota Toombs.

Parents Need to Know

It has nonstop sexual content, including tons of crude innuendo and some nudity (female breasts and a male bottom).

Rated PG-13 for some thematic elements and scary action.

While much of the mansion's interiors were created on soundstages, exterior shots of the mansion feature the stunning Garden District home known as The Buckner Mansion, which is located at 1410 Jackson Avenue.

Who is in the casket in Haunted Mansion? ›

The Haunted Mansion (film)

The coffin occupant is the basis and inspiration for the mausoleum scene in the 2003 film. In this adaption, the character is condensed as one of the zombies. This zombie being found within a stone sarcophagus in the mausoleum, is in possession of a key needed by Jim Evers.

Jared Leto as the Hatbox Ghost

Jared Leto, 51, stars as the Hatbox Ghost, an iconic apparition from the Haunted Mansion ride.

The Haunted Mansion is dark and contains some mildly frightening scenes, but there is no gore, the ghostly residents are friendly and the ride is slow-moving.

In “A Haunted House,” Virginia Woolf subverts the genre of the ghost story to explore themes of life and death, love and loss, and the significance of memory.

The film follows a single mother and her son who move into the Haunted Mansion, which is in New Orleans. While the film tries to utilize the setting of New Orleans in some decently authentic ways, the rest of the plot and character development is so generic that they fail to make viewers more engaged in the setting.

They eventually learn that all of the mansion's residents are actually ghosts, cursed a century ago by Gracey and Elizabeth's suicides and can only move to Heaven when they are reunited, and Gracey believes Sara is Elizabeth's reincarnation.

Haunted Mansion gives the Bride — aka Constance Hatchaway, a serial killer who murdered all of her husbands with an ax, and who now haunts the mansion's attic — her time to shine. She doesn't have a critical role in the movie, but her scenes are some of the most memorable parts, which is fitting for the character.