The Haunted Mansion

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Call Number: Youth-DVD Disney Haunted
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch

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Based on Walt Disney's Haunted Mansion.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2003.
Special features: deleted scenes; bloopers; 'Haunted mansion' attration virtual tour - exploring the mansion with ghost guides Emma & Ezra; Raven "Superstition" music video; "The making-of" 'The mansion' - behind-the-scenes look at making 'The haunted mansion'; anatomy of a scene - ghost in the graveyard; audio commentaries; DVD-ROM content: the history of 'The haunted mansion' attraction; morphing ghost host maker; photo gallery; desktop themes/wallpaper/screensavers; enhanced virtual mansion tour.
Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp, Nathaniel Parker, Marsha Thomason, Jennifer Tilly, Wallace Shawn, Dina Waters.
Jim Evers is a real estate agent whose latest project is to find a buyer for a huge but dilapidated old house in New Orleans. However, when Evers and his family visits the property before their family vacation, he discovers it's already inhabited by 999 ghosts, none of whom are interested in sharing the space. As the spirits make their displeasure known, Evers and his family, with the help of an eccentric medium named Madame Leota, try to get the ghosts to leave.
DVD, Region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, THX-certified. ; full screen.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Spooky submitted by nfrassrand on June 23, 2011, 4:22pm A spooky movie that is great for all ages. It's one of my favorites. It's a must-see movie too.

didn't like submitted by steelersfan1 on June 24, 2011, 4:45pm didn't like this movie

like it submitted by harajuku528 on June 24, 2011, 5:07pm funny

scary and funny submitted by honordenver on July 2, 2011, 3:29pm Freaky and scary movie and it was funny.

cool submitted by buttercupsmiley on July 5, 2011, 11:09am creepy in a house of hauntings

cool submitted by cinderellariley on July 21, 2011, 8:10am I loved this movie

Good submitted by ColeenT on July 25, 2011, 6:25pm Good

It had potential, but... submitted by allie0 on July 8, 2014, 11:39am If you've been on the ride at Disney that inspired the movie it was a disappointment.

funny submitted by srahman on July 8, 2015, 7:12pm funny movie

Not (Quite) As Bad As Expected! submitted by Meginator on August 17, 2020, 7:36pm *Contains an implied plot spoiler that won’t surprise anyone who has seen a Disney film*

I’m going to be honest: I expected something much worse than this, and though this ride-to-film adaptation fails both as a new version of a beloved (and brilliant) classic and as a film in its own right, it’s not all bad. As a fan of the Disney theme parks, I enjoyed many of the references to the 999 Happy Haunts who reside in Anaheim and Lake Buena Vista, of which the singing busts are unquestionably a highlight, with the hitchhiking ghosts in a close second. Surprisingly, the film has the seeds of a great horror movie within it and even some nightmare fuel skeleton effects(!), though it sacrifices suspense for eye-rolling jokes and an uneven tone that fails to find its audience and squanders the story’s significant (and significantly spooky) potential. Wallace Shawn acquits himself well despite a lack of great material to work with, and the other actors are generally tolerable, handling an occasionally nonsensical script with as much grace and subtlety as can be expected- Eddie Murphy resists the temptation to ham it up, and his performance is surprisingly solid. Ultimately, a predictable plot full of holes and short on explanations dooms the enterprise, even allowing the villain to, um, succeed, even if he does get his comeuppance at the hand of unexplained forces that quite literally pop up to do him in. This isn’t a good film, and it’s not a so-bad-it’s-good film, it’s just kind of there in limbo, like its ghostly denizens who surely deserved better.

Fun movie submitted by Abbie D. on July 9, 2022, 2:32pm Not the best, but a fun, family friendly Halloween movie!

funny movie submitted by hdbond20 on August 8, 2023, 4:19pm eddie murphy is a great actor in this movie