Funny / Haunted Mansion (2023)

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Pre-release

• From the first trailer:
  • Gabbie thinks the dark, creepy mansion will be improved by lighting a vanilla candle. Travis isn't convinced.
    Travis: Will it, though?
  • Ben refuses to go anywhere near the Mansion but does a 180 the moment he hears how much he'll be paid.
  • Kent holds up an axe to take down dead people, which his friends point out won't work.
  • Bruce and Ben go to the police and give the sketch artist a vague description of the Hatbox Ghost. The artist produces a perfect likeness.
    Ben: You just did that, just now?
• From the second trailer:
  • Kent tells a horde of advancing ghosts that they're not very scary. Except for the mummy, who he asks to turn around. The mummy politely indulges him.
  • Madame Leota offers to show the group a vision but demands a price: three dollars.
    • And Bruce still complains that it's highway robbery.
  • Harriet walks into the dining room and, using her psychic powers, learns that people used to eat there.
• From this clip, Harriet asks Travis how old he is. When he tells her he's nine, she thinks that's old enough to hear about how several mediums ended up with their organs on the outside.

Film

• Ben working as a bored, hungover tour guide in New Orleans. When one tourist asks about ghosts one too many times, he snaps and gives the whole group a Straw Nihilist rant.
• Gabbie warns Ben that ghosts hate flash photography, just like in the ride.
• Gabbie and Travis are already waiting outside when Ben comes racing back from being haunted.
• After Harriet gives her sham exorcism, a title card reading TWO HOURS LATER appears and she's immediately back, complaining about a ghost on a horse.
• In the middle of the first seance, once the group learns they need to find Leota, a ghost yells "NO" and immediately starts pushing Harriet in her chair (designed to look like a Doombuggy) through the hall and out the door to the property gate, sending her face-first into the mud.
  • Shortly after Bruce arrives, he doesn't even spend a minute inside before a Donald chair tackles him and sends him out the door too.
    • Immediately afterwards, the Mariner messes with hospital equipment allowing Ben and Gabbie to get Bruce out of the hospital.
• Ben tearfully reminisces about his dead wife Alyssa, including her love of cheesesteaks and tater tots. Bruce breaks the tension by wondering what her cholesterol was like.
• As Harriet does a ritual, Kent asks what exotic and mystical substance she's burning. Turns out it's just sage from Costco.
• Gabbie trying to cook breakfast for the group only to keep getting intrrupted by some invisible prankster spirits who proceed to sabotage her cooking.
• Travis wonders why the other kids at school don't like him. He always dresses formally and raises his hand in class, and reminds the other students to follow rules. Ben points out that he answered his own question.
• During a meeting in the dining room, Harriet explains astral projection as a Reverse Seance, with Ben calling her out on it, only she acts confused about 'astral projection'. Later it's revealed via Madame Leota's book that, in real Medium circles, it actually is called a Reverse Seance.
• The Crump Manor scenes have Winona Ryder as a bored tour guide and Dan Levy as a Large Ham actor with a terrible fake mustache. And below the mansion are the graves of Crump's victims with darkly humorous rhymes on their tombstones.
  • While Ben, Kent, and Travis go to the fireplace for the Mariner to find Crump's hat, Dan Levy can be seen and heard playing "It's a Small World" on piano. He even requests no singing along.
  • The tour guide's account of what a petty, arrogant person Crump was. He refused to put chairs in the foyer so everyone would be standing when he entered the room, shortened the chairs in his dining room while padding his own seat so he'd be higher than everyone else, and hung a portrait of his mistress in his house for his wife to see.
  • Ben asks if a cane in the foyer belonged to Crump. Pam answers that it's her own cane, which she uses for deeply personal reasons.
  • The Mariner comes along with Ben, Kent, and Travis as signified be sea water dripping in the back seat of the car. Ben politely asks the ghost to wait while they find something of Crump’s for the banishment. The ghost obliges but not for long.
• Crump possesses Bruce to try and trick Ben and Kent but still talks like a man from the 1800's.
• All of Ben's attempts to stop Constance from killing him, including trying to present himself as a feminist ally and asking if he can call her "ghost bae."
• The Mariner agrees to help Ben, Travis, and Kent in exchange for being taken to the sea. At the end of the film, they hold up their end of the bargain. Cue the Mariner stealing someone's boat and sailing away. Ben and Travis promptly leave.