LaKeith Stanfield isn’t afraid of a few ghosts—but maybe he should be. Or, as is often the case, maybe he should be afraid of the rest of the people he’s stuck in Disney’s Haunted Mansion with. The latest Disney-ride-brought-to-life-on-film comes from Justin Simien (Dear White People) and looks to be fairly faithful to the theme park ride’s creepy-but-fun aesthetic, complete with a general lack of bright lighting and a whole lot of untrustworthy walls and floors.
Speaking of untrustworthy, I’ve got my eye on Owen Wilson’s dubious-looking priest. The movie’s plot is as simple as you’d expect: “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.” Rosario Dawson and Chase W. Dillon play the put-upon homeowners; the hired “experts” include Wilson, Stanfield, Danny DeVito, and Tiffany Haddish. Jamie Lee Curtis, Winona Ryder, and Dan Levy are also hanging out in the haunted home, and the less said about Jared Leto as the hatbox ghost, the better.
This is not writer Katie Dippold’s first tangle with the supernatural; she also co-wrote 2016’s Ghostbusters with Paul Feig.
Enter the mansion—if you dare—on July 28th.
