This seems as a good time as any, since it is the season, and I have put a few things up about movies and all...
One of the family movies we all enjoy (like The Sleepover or The Princess Bride) is the 2023 version of Haunted Mansion. I thought I brought up this movie while back, but I can't find it. It brings up safe scares, and legit feelings, and I'd watch Lakieth Stanfield in most anything, and Rosario Dawson, Danny Devito, and Tiffani Haddish are all American treasures.
Owen Wilson is...less insufferable here as well. This movie is a good family time. Is it a masterpiece? Does it have to be?
The other day, though, after the Werewolf of London movie, we put on the Eddie Murphy version of The Haunted Mansion from 2003:
This was the first time I watched this version, despite my affection for Eddie Murphy.
So...in the Lakeith Stanfield/Rosario Dawson version, a William Gracie owned the mansion which was eventually haunted both in life and in death by the evil Crump, who needs souls to, er, come back to the world and wreak a new kind of havoc. A character named Madame Leota, played by Jamie Lee Curtis here, is a head in a crystal ball, a medium who knows the real background.
Watching the Eddie Murphy version, my ears picked up when I heard the owner of the mansion who had lured the realtor married couple was named William Gracie. Later, a crystal ball was discovered and inside a "gypsy" named Madame Leota, played by Jennifer Tilly, has, eh, things to say.
It was then that I cracked open my Internet access and looked up some info. Why weee these names the same? What the heck?
Madame Leota is the name of a crystal ball head in the ride. And then I found out some critical info: two of the main Imagineers of the original Disneyland Haunted Mansion were named Rolly Crump and Yale Gracie.
Honoring the workers and engineering talent that built the place...pretty cool.
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