{"id":1122,"date":"2004-05-10T00:24:04","date_gmt":"2004-05-10T00:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1122.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","slug":"the-haunted-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/05\/10\/the-haunted-mansion\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Haunted Mansion<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The balance between scariness and comedy isn&#8217;t quite right here, and I think it&#8217;s down to Eddie Murphy.  Is this a star (ahem?) vehicle&#8211;a showcase for his talents as a family film entertainer, or is it a vehicle for ghostly special effects and gentle, PG-style jumpy horror?  The story is simple, and the plot twists are obvious, so the film really has to stand or fall on its atmospherics, and how well its build-up of tension is punctuated by jokes.  Unfortunately, it falls.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The balance between scariness and comedy isn&#8217;t quite right here, and I think it&#8217;s down to Eddie Murphy. Is this a star (ahem?) vehicle&#8211;a showcase for his talents as a family film entertainer, or is it a vehicle for ghostly special effects and gentle, PG-style jumpy horror? The story is simple, and the plot twists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_2_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}