Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for ‘Haunted Mansion’When the Walt Disney Company set the release date for their reimagining of Haunted Mansion, they probably expected it to scare up some solid box office scores.
However, it turns out the scariest thing for Mickey Mouse this Summer wasn’t a headless ghost host but was actually a life-size plastic doll and a pipe-smoking nuclear physicist.
That’s because the combined might of Barbie and Oppenheimer continues to dominate the Summer box office, shattering records well into its sophomore weekend.
Plus, Haunted Mansion is also going against A24’s Talk to Me, which has become the talk of the indie world and has been praised as one of the scariest films of the year.
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