A newly widowed mother's decision to buy a sprawling New Orleans mansion turns into a haunted-house comedy the moment she realizes the previous tenants never left.
What is Haunted Mansion about?
Gabbie moves into the mansion with her young son hoping for a fresh start, only to discover the house came with a crowd of restless spirits attached to the deed. Unable to shake them on her own, she assembles an unlikely team: a tour guide, a psychic, a priest, and a historian, each hoping their particular expertise will get the ghosts to leave. Haunted Mansion, released in 2023, blends the tone of a family-friendly fright with genuine comic timing, moving between jump scares and jokes as the mismatched group tries to piece together why the house won't let go of its dead. The film draws its lineup of hauntings and set pieces from the Disney theme-park ride of the same name, reworked here into a full story with its own cast of the living and the dead.
About the cast
Rosario Dawson plays Gabbie with a mix of exhaustion and stubborn resolve, while Owen Wilson, Tiffany Haddish, Danny DeVito, and Jared Leto fill out her odd assortment of ghost-hunting allies, each leaning into a distinct comic register. LaKeith Stanfield and Jamie Lee Curtis round out the ensemble, with young Chase W. Dillon playing Gabbie's son.
Context & significance
Justin Simien directs Haunted Mansion, moving from the sharper social satire of his earlier work into a bigger studio production built around practical sets and effects-heavy sequences inside the mansion itself. At 123 minutes, the film has room to let its ensemble breathe between the haunted-house set pieces, giving each specialist a chance to explain what they've noticed about the house before the group's theories start to converge.
Watching Haunted Mansion on Ktime
Haunted Mansion is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, and the site's Farsi-language interface makes browsing straightforward for Persian-speaking audiences. The title includes Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can pick whichever suits them.