By RICKY J. DUARTE
Fasten your Doom Buggies’ safety bars, foolish mortals! HAPPY HAUNTS MATERIALIZE! BEHIND THE SCENES OF DISNEY’S HAUNTED MANSION is coming to Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, California, Sunday, July 30.
Ghost-hosted by The Boo Crew Podcast’s Lauren and Trevor Shand and Leon D’Antonio, the presentation will also feature special apparitions by producer Jonathan Eirich, costume designer Jeffrey Kurland and editor Phillip Bartell.
Exhuming spectral tales of behind-the-scenes spookiness and unsettling insight about the disquieting metamorphosis of the iconic Disney attraction from the boundless realm of the supernatural to the big screen, this swinging wake is certain to leave audiences both grim and grinning.
If you would like to join this graveyard jamboree, make your final arrangements now. Single-day and weekend passes and VIP Gold Bat passes are now on sale at MidsummerScream.org. (Be sure to bring your death certificate!)
The famous haunted attraction, which first opened at Disneyland in 1969 to instant acclaim, ushers visitors through a walking and riding tour of Gracey Manor, showcasing waltzing ghosts, singing busts, a clairvoyant crystal ball, and an eerily catchy theme song. The ride has since garnered cult status among Disney and horror fans alike.
Hurry back… hurry back… Disney’s HAUNTED MANSION starring Rosaria Dawson, LaKeith Stanfield, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, and Danny DeVito, practices its terror with ghoulish delight only in theaters August 10. Just beware of hitchhiking ghosts!
