Disney have very slowly been getting more and more into releasing horror films granted those horror films have been family friendly horror films but there still horror films none the less. Well the house of mouse has just now released there latest horror films and if it's going to do anything like their previous films at the box office then you can expect this film to be a flop and so then join me a I review the film that should have not only have been released in October but also on Disney+ with the film in question being called simply just "Haunted Mansion" enjoy.
The plot of this film is when a single mother and son discover that there new house is haunted they task four people to help get rid of the ghosts once and for all. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad with this films plot being really entertaining and at times it can be really very engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is LaKeith Stanfield as Ben Matthias , Rosario Dawson as Gabbie and Owen Wilson as Father Kent. Also starring in this film is Tiffany Haddish as Harriet , Danny DeVito as Bruce Davis , Jamie Lee Curtis as Madame Leota , Chase W. Dillon as Travis , J.R. Adduci as William Gracey , Creek Wilson as Mariner , Ben Bladon as Hatchet Ghost , Lindsay Lamb as The Bride , Charity Jordan as Alyssa Matthias , Fedor Steer as Phineas The Traveler , Terence Rosemore as Gus The Prisoner , Mike Benitez as Ezra The Skeleton , Erika Coleman as Eleanor Gracey and Jared Leto as Alistair Crump / Hatbox Ghost.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us n this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad However that's also the issue as this films acting isn't all that good with alot of that coming down to the films script which gives this cast absolutely nothing to work with interms of what their respective characters personalities even are.
Doing the CGI for this film is Double Negative , Imaginarium Studios and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Industrial Light & Magic. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that he actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good which shouldn't be all that surprising given who is providing the CGI for this film.
What is truly shocking is that Disney turned down a script for this film by the great Guillermo Del Toro for being to scary. Which for me is a dumb reason to turn a script as this is a horror movie it's meant to be scary even family friendly horror films still need to be scary and I don't know if Disney knows this or not but kids like being scared and so by turning down his version of a Haunted House movie they just lost a lot of money as Guillermo Del Toro movies not only get very positive reviews from both fans and critics alike but they also make alot of money at the box office and they've just doomed this movie to fail because fans are now going to wonder what Guillermo Del Toro's vision for the film would have been like.
Like I said at the start of the review this film not only should have been released during October but t also should have been released straight to Disney+. As the film would have found more of an audience on Disney+ during the halloween season then it will find during the summer months in theaters as now ts just going to get lost in a sea of other bigger and in alot of cases better summer movies which is something that Disney really can't do with being the case right now and with Barbie killing it at the box office this film is only going to loose money which is a shame because this film does have alot of really good things for it as well as having some bad things going against it all of which add up to the film becoming the latest Disney movie to become a box office flop at the box office.
There are a few things that I did like about the movie like for example the ghosts were pretty cool looking. I also like the fact that the film managed to include heavy themes of death and grief into a kids film with thew characters of Travis and Ben both dealing with the recent loss of a loved one and seeing how they overcame that and form a bond because of that was interesting to see in this film it's just a shame that the film doesn't really go into that much detail nor do anything with that theme as it is something that's handled really well and the film could have dine with exploring that theme alot more then what it actually does.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and fifty five minuets and forty six seconds. Which is far longer then what this film really needs to be as this film only has enough story for at the very latest one hour and thirty minuets and as such we just spend alot of time with the characters just stuck on repeat mode which after a while gets to be very boring as all there doing is just repeating scenes that we've already seen in the movie but I will admit that this film does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then since this is a horror film that means that I have to actually talk about the actual horror that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual horror that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. Granted his film is a horror comedy and while the main focus of the film leans slightly more towards the comedy aspect of the film there are some really unique scares to be found in this film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this film was better then what that it would be but at the same time it's also not really as good nor as creepy , scary and as really funny as it perhaps should be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being the official Disney fandom wiki page simply because the official Disney fandom wiki page actually has images from this film up on the official Disney fandom wiki page and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on the official Disney fandom wiki page were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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