‘Haunted Mansion’, the Walt Disney World attraction, comes to life in tape due out July 27

On a family vacation to Walt Disney World as a kid, filmmaker justin simons He was marked for life by two facts: riding the Space Mountain roller coaster with his mother’s hands in front of his eyes all the time, as they asked God to save them; and also for the part at the end of the Haunted Mansion attraction, when a ghost in a mirror appears to follow him out.

“I was 8 years old and I thought it was a trick, but I didn’t understand how it was done. For years I wondered if that ghost was still with me in the real world,” he recalled.

That feeling of fascination and horror would later inspire him in his work as a filmmaker. and in what she tried to provoke her audience with her films, but this month mainly honors her for the film adaptation of the theme attraction haunted house, which will hit Ecuadorian cinemas on Thursday, July 27.

The tape of 122 minutes tells the story of a woman and her son who turn to a motley crew of would-be spiritual experts for help in ridding their home of supernatural inhabitants. The cast, who did not parade the red carpet at the premiere due to the strike of Hollywood screenwriters and actors, includes faces such as LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Chase W. Dillon, Dan Levy, the Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis and Jared Leto.

And although he had digital effects at his disposal, Simien preferred to maintain the tension several times through classic movie tricks.

“Like in the fantastic horror movies I grew up with (Beetlejuice, the super spirit; The Little Horror Shop; The Ghostbustersetc.), I knew I could take audiences to fantastic places that would still be believable with the specific physical features and sensations of the attraction’s practical effects as our guiding star. Obviously we would use digital effects, but it was important to me that the film never felt like it was set in a digital vacuum,” he said.

Though his clear bet was always his troupe of actors. “Naturally The most powerful special effect in any movie is the unspeakable charisma and chemistry that the actors provide. For the film to really shine, it was vital to assemble an ensemble comedy cast that had the star power that a film of this magnitude demands, but that he also had those personalities that complement each other and contrast where necessary”.

Each of them comes to this house for different reasons, not knowing that whoever enters will not be able to leave without one of their ghosts forever attached to them. When they find out the hard way how serious the situation is, they realize it They must find a way to work as a team to free themselves and the mansion from the power of the ghosts. In the path, not only do they discover the mansion’s twisted history, but each of them must bravely face their fears. and their own inner demons overcome the predicament they find themselves in and be able to banish the ghosts from the house and from their lives forever.

“The first time we spoke to Justin, it seemed like fate had brought himsaid producer Jonathan Eirich. “He had already made a horror movie, bad hairand a satirical comedy with Dear white peopleHe grew up with a passion for the Haunted Mansion attraction and worked at Disneyland when he began studying film and devoted all of his free time to the attraction. Much of her family is from Louisiana and around New Orleans, so she was also aware of the area’s rich history. We felt he understood all the elements that make that attraction so special. He immediately knew how to best capture the tone of the script and create a visual landscape in the film that would do it justice.”