#haunted mansion spoilers

[mobius-m-mobius]

[serosfan]

Can we talk about the healthy masculinity in the Haunted Mansion movie?

MILD SPOILERS

Like we see Ben grieving his dead wife like we see him break down sobbing crying like full on breakdown and we see Travis break down towards the end in the basement and neither time is treated like a joke!

They’re allowed to be upset they’re given the space and support to cry and it’s openly acknowledged that they need to do that.

Aside from it being positive masculinity it’s positive BLACK male masculinity which is even rarer idk I just loved this movie so much.

[ghostsghoulsandhatboxes]

bitch boy. horrid creature

[strange-doll-child]

You're not believing how I'm screaming on the inside rn out of a n g e r

[spiritsofprogress]

People shocked at the Hatbox ghost being the bad guy like the most major story about him is the urban legend he was too scary and gave someone a heart attack in the sixties. Now the effect works and the face is dialed down a bit and I think there’s been nothing but fanon for so long that it’s shocking people that some think he could be a bad guy?

Just to clarify, I’m not saying your wrong for having a kinder interpretation or even liking the character (I think everyone does) but you have to keep in mind it’s possible for others to have a more sinister interpretation. Also now that I think about it the heart attack legend may have shaped some of how his character works within the film- very major plot point stuff. That’s actually really cool.

[devondeal]

So... what's the ship name for Madame Leota and Harriet?

[professional-termite]

there is no way that kent isn't, like, flat broke. like this guy works at a minimum wage job (costume shop) and has to impersonate a priest to make ends meet. kent 100% goes on all the food runs specifically because gabbie is giving him money and you cannot convince me otherwise.

[mtridactyla]

a family can be a kid, his mom, an astrophysicist, a scam artist, a professor, a medium, and the 999 ghosts that live in their house

[a-blog-for-venting-i-guess]

Watches Haunted Mansion 2023 with friends: Yeah that was alright. Product placement was insane though, took away from the serious scenes. Also it was too dark. Like literally could not see much.

Immediately watches the 2003 version with the same friends: omg that was way better, you can actually see what’s happening, the mansion set is amazing, it’s funny, and it was weirdly wholesome. The jumpscares got us good too.

My big takeaway from the experience is that the new movie suffered from fragmentation, being way too dark (likely to hide bad cgi but still), the weird Hollywood thing now where jokes and plot scenes have to be harshly separated instead of allowed to organically happen as the story progresses, and no real emotional investment. It’s hard to care when the main person with an actually tragic backstory interrupts said backstory with a Baskin Robbins ad. It doesn’t come across like the guy is telling the story and that was one of the details, it’s like it was crammed into the script. But that criticism aside, the Eddie Murphy movie was about a dad learning to put family first. What it meant to truly love them. Especially his wife, who he’d especially taken for granted.

There’s a small detail in the script that probably should’ve gotten fleshed out more, where the dad tells his daughter he works so much so he can give her and the family a better life than what he had. And the daughter is like, “wow dad, I didn’t know you had a bad childhood,” and he immediately gets defensive, saying his childhood wasn’t bad. It shows that it’s not that his life was ever hard, he’s just obsessed with prestige. Just like the main villain. Ultimately the dad is able to recognize he can’t give up so easily like he’d done before with working right before the family trip, even if it means losing something he thought he really valued, and without hesitation ruins his BMW to save his family, but the butler can’t get on that level and gets dragged to hell.

It’s not groundbreaking by any stretch but it’s something. Like, there’s an emotional through line there. A character arc.

Compare that to the 2023 version where there’s more this overall theme of, moving on and overcoming grief. And finding strength with others. Again, not groundbreaking but the difference is emotional investment. The movie takes itself more seriously but loses the connection because we only find out what happened to the guy’s wife like well over an hour into it and the bloated cast puts other reveals on the back burner too. Like the priest being a fraud or the fortuneteller’s self worth bit. The priest thing doesn’t get introduced until right before the final confrontation and no one really cares, meanwhile the fortuneteller finds her confidence, OFFSCREEN!

Instead of developing our cast or having them actually interact with the GHOSTS in a HAUNTED MANSION (beyond asking for plot details), we go on a detour to find out who the bad guy is, what his backstory was, and where his hat is. And on this detour we find out he was a horrible no good very bad man so don’t feel bad when he’s dragged down to green hell at the end.

Last note, interesting how both films ended on the saints go marching in and during the day vs at night.

Last last note, Haunted mansion 2023 just didn’t click with me for a variety of reasons. While haunted mansion 2003 isn’t a perfect movie. It’s got issues, I think the mom should’ve figured out the home owner was off way sooner and why didn’t the butler burn the letter, but I like it’s heart.

[edwardnashtiddies]

if jared leto loves method acting so much i think someone should seriously check his basement for graves

[mobius-m-mobius]

#zero context needed 👀

[myckicade]

When that tag said 'Tater Tot', I started to cry.

[serosfan]

HAUNTED MANSION SPOILERS

I’ve been trying to match who got followed by which ghost and I’ve figured SOME of them out.

We know Ben was haunted by the sea captain that’s confirmed.

Father Kent says it was a lady with half a face I thought it would be Constance but the opening with Travis in his new room implies his ghost is Constance?

Alistar says he’ll haunt Gabby and Travis for the rest of their lives so he could be Gabby’s ghost but that’s a stretch.

Idk help me out here guys

[wrongweaponsdrawn]

The Narrator: “If, when possessing people, you have to focus on tricking someone who is grieving so badly that they ignore common sense, maybe you should invest in acting classes.”

Redacted: “Yeah, this movie could’ve been over in five minutes. Still was awesome.”

The Narrator: “True. I did like the special effects and darker plot.”

Redacted: “And I fucking loved Danny Devito!”

[stretch-time]

I will say the only thing I have about the haunted mansion movie

Hold on lemme spoiler this

Anyways I don't like the fact they made Hatbox Ghost evil. He is not evil, that is my prankster granddad leave him alone

[spiritsofprogress]

⚠️plot point spoilers

Bruce: Ok so we got a ghost who feeds off grief and manipulates people. He’s also known to straight up kill or get people killed so let’s NOT listen to a word this guy says, alright gang?

Ben:

Ben:

I know he’s grieving and it’s a complicated process but he had just saved someone from almost falling victim to the same thing about five seconds before. Then again that could speak to the power Hatbox has on the full moon where a sound mind can go out the window in a second.