Last week, it was a film about a Mattel toy from 1959. This week, it is a film about a Disney theme park attraction from 1969. “Haunted Mansion,” not to be confused with the 2003 film “The Haunted Mansion” headed by Eddie Murphy or the 2021 TV special “Muppets Haunted Mansion” featuring Will Arnett and Taraji P. Henson, this “Haunted Mansion” has a cast including LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Jared Leto, Danny DeVito and Academy Award-winner Jamie Lee Curtis. The director is Justin Simien of the prophetic 2014 comedy “Dear White People.”

In this installment, Stanfield is Ben Matthias, a New Orleans astrophysicist who meets, falls in love with Alyssa (Charity Jordan) and promptly becomes a grieving widower. Losing himself to drink, Ben becomes a tour guide, arguing with customers, including a reed-thin Marilu Henner, about the ghosts of New Orleans and insisting oddly that, “life is dirt.” At the same time, a single mother named Gabbie (the likable Dawson) and her young son Travis (Chase W. Dillon) move into an old Greek revival mansion outside the city and are terrified by the ghosts inside, including a moving suit of arms, but for reasons that are, like the rest of the film, contrived, they cannot leave.

Ben, meanwhile, awkwardly meets the bizarre hustler named Father Kent (Wilson), who wears a priest’s collar, black fedora, dark glasses and a large cross dangling from his neck. Kent gets Ben to agree to photograph the ghosts of the house, using a special “ghost particle” camera invented by Ben when he was still a scientist. Eventually, a medium named Harriet (Tiffany Haddish), whose eyelashes look carnivorous and who has a silken scarf wrapped two-feet over her head, shows up to try her skills against the house’s tormented spirits. Among these are the dead, legendary psychic Madame Leota (Curtis). Also in the mix is an eccentric college history professor named Bruce Davis (DeVito), who wears a transparent vinyl coat and hat and has a way of sneaking up on people.

Casper-like phantoms fly about. Candelabra whirl without arms to support them. Organ music by Kris Bowers (“Bridgerton”) swells and swells, again (and again). Travis’ bedroom looks like its former occupant was Miss Havisham. What, no cake? Every time Ben insists, “There’s no such thing as ghosts,” a certain song by Ray Parker Jr. starts playing in my head. Surprise, this ramshackle “Haunted Mansion” was written by the solely credited Katie Dippold of the notorious 2016 “Ghostbusters” reboot. Why is Winona Ryder in “Haunted Mansion” for a minute? Why not?

This “Haunted Mansion” is corny, sentimental, hard to swallow and derivative. In addition to the landmark 1984 “Ghostbusters,” you will detect the ghosts of “A Christmas Carol,” “The Addams Family” and Harry Potter films. A backstory involving the original owner of the mansion set in the late 1880s does not mention slaves or servants. Instead, we get boring, rich, rival brothers and… arsenic. The cinematography by Jeffrey Waldron is so dark I thought I fell into a hole. When Curtis shows up for the finale, she’s wearing something Cher might have shown off at the Oscars. Leto voices the CG character and generic villain known as the Hatbox Ghost (“ha-ha-ha-ha”). Only DeVito and Haddis truly shine in these dark shadows. At 123 minutes, the film is endless. At the screening, I attended, it stopped and had to be restarted from the beginning. Ha-ha-ha-ha.

(“Haunted Mansion” contains frightening scenes and some violent action)

Rated PG-13. At the AMC Boston Common, AMC South Bay and suburban theaters. Grade: C+