Disney’s Best Haunted Mansion Movie Quietly Came Out 2 Years Before $150 Million Box Office Disaster

Perhaps surprisingly, Disney’s best Haunted Mansion movie came out before 2023’s $150 million box office disaster. The definitive adaptation of Disney’s popular theme park attraction isn’t 2003’s horror-comedy The Haunted Mansion either. In fact, the best movie version of the much-loved property had a dead-silent, straight-to-streaming launch on Disney+ just two years ago. While the recent Haunted Mansion has a disappointing 38% aggregate critical score on Rotten Tomatoes, the Eddie Murphy-led The Haunted Mansion holds an even more upsetting rating: a dismal 13%. Ultimately, neither film elevates its source material, nor do their shoehorned narratives stand out on their own merits.