Haunted Mansion
Haunted Mansion
A single mom named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest and a historian to help exorcise her newly bought mansion after discovering it is inhabited by ghosts.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 2, 2025
We kind of needed a chill day for our last day in Tennessee, so we checked out the local AMC “Classic,” which apparently just means an AMC theater that hasn’t been updated or cleaned in a decade. I didn’t even know there were theaters that still exist that don’t have reserved seats. We had to scramble to get to our seats like animals. The good news is there was no one else in the theater besides us soooo, maybe reserved seats isn’t a huge deal for this theater. Onto the review…
Haunted Mansion is a perfectly fine family movie. My kids all seemed to reasonably enjoy it. I actually enjoyed the first two thirds for the most part. The cast is really fun. I will never not like Danny DeVito, as he’s a national treasure, in my opinion. Lakeith Stanfield and Rosario Dawson make the most of the material and Owen Wilson is playing his typical character he always plays. Where the movie kind of falters for me is the third act. The resolution has the cast splitting up doing separate things, but the execution is pretty clunky. I love Jamie Lee Curtis, but I honestly thought she was really bad in this (obviously the material doesn’t do her many favors). And Jared Leto, I guess was in this 🤷🏻♂️ It has some decent “family movie scares” that had my 9 year old covering his eyes at times, but didn’t really effect any of the rest of my fam. This certainly could have been better, but it’s about as good as I would have expected.