Haunted Mansion (PG-13)
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This is based on the Disney theme park attraction of the same name (which I've never experienced). It came out in 2023, twenty years after The Haunted Mansion, which was also based on the attraction. Like that movie, I don't consider this scary enough to list it under "supernatural horror", and just called it "supernatural" instead. But it's also a comedy. I liked it more than the previous movie, and the plot is substantially different. Unfortunately, it didn't do well either critically or financially, losing Disney a ton of money. I feel like it deserved to be successful.

There's this astrophysicist named Ben (LaKeith Stanfield), who marries a woman named Alyssa, a ghost tour guide in New Orleans. Sometime later, a woman named Gabbie (Rosario Dawson) and her son, Travis, move into a mansion that turns out to be haunted. They make the smart move of getting out of there in a hurry. Then a priest named Father Kent (Owen Wilson) contacts Ben, who he heard had invented a camera that could take pictures of ghosts. At this point, Ben is widowed, and has given up his original job to continue Alyssa's tour guide job, but he doesn't enjoy the job, because he doesn't believe in ghosts. He agrees to go to the mansion to try to help Gabbie, just because he needs the money. It turns out Gabbie and Travis had only returned to the mansion themselves because they continued to be haunted by its ghosts wherever they went. So they had hired Father Kent to exorcise the ghosts, but he failed.

At first, Ben finds no evidence of ghosts in the mansion, so he leaves, but he too is haunted by one of the ghosts, so he returns. They recruit a medium named Harriet (Tiffany Haddish) to conduct a seance in the mansion. They are also joined by a professor named Bruce (Danny DeVito), though Ben doesn't want him coming to the mansion because of his heart condition. Anyway, Harriet contacts the mansion's original owner, William Gracey, during the seance. He writes a message for them to find the ghost of a medium named Madame Leota (Jamie Lee Curtis). And when they finally do find her ghost, she tries to help them, but is stopped by an evil spirit of unknown identity who has been controlling all the other ghosts in the mansion. They also learn that the evil ghost has claimed 999 souls, and needs one more in order to escape from the mansion. The final soul must give up their life willingly, and there are a couple of possible members of the assembled group who might do so. But they also try to find a way to get rid of the evil ghost, whose identity they eventually discover.

And... I don't want to reveal any more of the plot, but I will say it has a happy ending. I found the movie fairly amusing in a lot of parts, and even if I didn't find the ghosts that scary, I found it believable that the characters did. I thought it was a fairly good story, and poignant in some ways. It's not a great movie, but I'd certainly say it was fun.