There’s a new one Haunted house movie coming out this summer, which is fine and cool for people who love Disney Parks’ Haunted Mansion attraction (me) and also love to celebrate Halloween all year round (me too). But the new trailer reveals something of paramount importance that will appeal to an even wider audience: Owen Wilson plays a hot priest.
And not just any hot priest either – a hot exorcism-performing, cowboy hat-wearing priest.
He joins Danny DeVito, LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish and Rosario Dawson to team up and drive the grim, grinning ghosts out of the Haunted Mansion.
Like the first teaser, this new trailer has a bunch of little kinks that fans of the ride might notice, from the rack space for the Doom Buggies. There’s also a full glimpse of the infamous Hatbox Ghost, played here by Jared Leto.
The Haunted Mansion ride is actually quite steeped in lore, although the exact story varies from park to park. The mansion seen in the film appears to be most closely based on the Disneyland Park version of the ride in California, with its antebellum mansion in New Orleans. (In case you were wondering, the Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland mansions are Gothic Revival style, and the Disneyland Paris variety is a Western Victorian, while the Hong Kong version, which different lore than the othersis in a Queen Anne style).
Haunted house will be in cinemas from July 28.