LaKeith Stanfield Stars In This Horror Comedy “Haunted Mansion”

LaKeith Stanfield.

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.

Haunted Mansion is a 2023 American supernatural horror comedy film directed by Justin Simien from a screenplay by Katie Dippold.
Ben Matthias (LaKeith Stanfield), an astrophysicist developing a camera to detect dark matter, meets and marries Alyssa (Charity Jordan), a ghost tour guide, and becomes entranced with her belief in the supernatural. After Alyssa dies in a car accident, Ben gives up his career and continues to run her ghost tour.

Years later, recently widowed doctor Gabbie (Rosario Dawson) and her son Travis (Chase Dillion) move from New York into Gracey Manor to turn it into a bed and breakfast, only to learn that it is haunted by ghosts.

Ben is visited by priest and exorcist Father Kent (Owen Wilson), who hires him to photograph the ghosts at Gracey Manor. Ben is initially incredulous until he returns home and is haunted by a ghost Mariner who forces him to return to the mansion. Ben learns that Gabbie, Travis, and Kent have also fallen victim to hauntings, forcing them to stay in the mansion.

Ben and Kent recruit Harriet (Tiffany Haddish), a psychic with legitimate powers, and steal blueprints to the mansion from haunted house historian Prof. Bruce Davis (Danny DeVito). The group funds a hidden séance room. Harriet manages to contact the spirit of Gracey who leaves a written message instructing them to talk to the legendary medium Madame Leota (Jamie Lee Curtis). Upon trying to do so, a mysterious entity forces Harriet out of the house. Bruce arrives shortly afterward and becomes haunted.

#Clique, this should be on your watch-list

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