Haunted Mansion Cinematographer Jeffrey Waldron on Real Sets, Real Ghosts & More

Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Haunted Mansion is a fun and family-friendly adaptation of Disney’s classic theme park attraction. The film arrived in theaters 20 years after the original Eddie Murphy The Haunted Mansion, and features a star-studded cast to compete with that of the first iteration.

The things I could pull from [were] a lot of candlelight, [and] a lot of moonlight. Some of their moonlight colors would go on to [be used in our movie]; their green moonlight would become our ghost realm moonlight color. Any use of fog, any use of colors from the crystal ball… all these color references of light that worked live were kind of woven in.

The [first Haunted Mansion]—was that something that you watched in preparation for this, to see what was going on there, see if there’s anything you wanted to pull from or not pull from, or did you not really think about it? I was hoping that, subconsciously, when people see it this way, it feels like it's actually really dark [but] you can actually see what’s in the shadows; it's a tricky thing to try to do. The way we did it was with these enormous softboxes on a really low level, always sort of filling in the shadows. [We had] haze always helping to lift the shadows just a little bit too, and then [it was] having our key lights and our moon lights be the really bright things that pierce.

I would be shooting a scene, and he's not even in it for, like, an hour, and then at some point, he'd be like, “Hey, it looks good,” and I’d look over, and it’s Danny DeVito sitting on an apple box in our tent. I'm like, “How long has he been there?” People would hang out; it was a really fun vibe. And [they’re] some of the coolest actors around; to see them all together feels crazy and bizarre. [It was] a real dream come true, a one-of-a-kind experience.

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