Talk to Me and Haunted Mansion aim to scare but don't always succeed

Now that the Barbenheimer blitzkrieg has finally touched down at multiplexes all over the place, collectively bringing in more audiences than any superhero flick in the past six months, we can talk about the other big-screen showdown that is currently popping off in theaters across the country: Disney’s Haunted Mansion and A24’s Talk to Me, two scary movies that involve grieving Black folk who see dead people. Let’s start with Haunted, the — shall we say — lighthearted one of the pair. This is the Mouse Factory’s second go-round turning their famed Disneyland attraction into cinematic IP.