Haunted Mansion: Tiffany Haddish’s spooky séance video

The short answer: Disney+ UK’s séance-themed video brings Haunted Mansion back into focus, with an unlikely team of ghost hunters and a personal connection to the attraction for Tiffany Haddish.

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1. A psychic, a priest and a houseful of problems
2. From childhood fright to Harriet

A séance with Tiffany Haddish, Rosario Dawson and Owen Wilson: that is Disney+ UK’s invitation back to Haunted Mansion. Published on 31 October 2026, the video is titled Tiffany Haddish’s Spooky Séance. Haddish’s character, Harriet, has a useful qualification for the occasion: she is a French Quarter psychic who may be more powerful than she realises.

Harriet belongs to the unlikely team recruited to help Gabbie, played by Dawson. A widowed doctor, Gabbie moves from New York to New Orleans with her son Travis, hoping to turn a decidedly ambitious renovation project into a bed and breakfast. The ghosts already in residence complicate the business plan.

A psychic, a priest and a houseful of problems

Wilson plays Father Kent, a hipster priest. Joining the team are LaKeith Stanfield’s Ben, a scientist specialising in paranormal activity, and Danny DeVito’s Professor Bruce Davis. A priest, a scientist, a psychic and a professor: Gabbie’s prospective rescuers are hardly a uniform ghost-removal service.

There is a personal detail behind Gabbie’s determination, too. In a July 2023 interview with D23, Dawson explained that memories of her grandmother helped shape the character’s appearance and behaviour. Her grandmother’s combination of elegance and readiness to get stuck in informed a woman prepared to take on such an enormous house.

From childhood fright to Harriet

Directed by Justin Simien, Haunted Mansion takes its inspiration from the Disney Parks attraction. For Haddish, that connection began with a childhood fear. As she recalled to D23 in the same 2023 interview:

Let me tell you, I’m a big Disneyland fan! But when I was a kid, I used to be scared of the Haunted Mansion! Tiffany Haddish, D23, 25 July 2023

A school trip changed her mind: she began to appreciate the attraction’s artistry, and it became her first stop on subsequent visits. The film’s sets brought back that enthusiasm. Haddish recalled constantly asking how things had been made, while Simien said the production aimed to shoot as much as possible on practical sets to ground the film’s supernatural world.

The séance is the video’s hook, but the filmmakers’ ambition for the group extended beyond scares. Simien described screenwriter Katie Dippold’s approach in terms of people who need one another:

But [screenwriter] Katie Dippold’s way into the story was this set of eccentric characters who desperately need a found family—and we worked hard to bring that aspect of the screenplay to life. Justin Simien, D23, 25 July 2023

Haunted Mansion is streaming on Disney+ in the UK.