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The Haunted House

Year
1929
Studio
Walt Disney Productions

About this animated short

Mickey takes shelter in a house full of dancing skeletons.

Plot summary

On a dark and stormy night, Mickey Mouse takes shelter in a sinister-looking house. Knocking on the porch door and receiving no answer, he pulls on the door knob and the entire porch collapses. Apprehensively peering through the open front door, he enters and the door locks itself behind him. Visibly frightened, Mickey is then startled by several bats flying from holes in the wall. A large spider descends from the ceiling, causing him to hide in a chamber pot. Climbing out of the chamber pot, Mickey hears howls and clattering, and flees into a hallway before the lights of a chandelier go out. He shouts three times in the dark, lights a match, and looks around. A shadow of a cloaked figure appears in his shadow. Dizzy with fear, Mickey screams, panics, and flees in fright, but is pursued by the figure, who makes growling noises. The cloaked figure corners Mickey in a room and lifts its hood, revealing itself as a skeleton ghost. It and several other skeletons compel Mickey to play the organ while they dance along to the music, one of them using a radiator as an accordion. When Mickey finishes playing, he sneaks away and tries to escape, but is spotted by the skeletons. As he runs and tries to open a door, the doorknob is revealed as a skeleton hand, which grips Mickey and shakes him. Running up a staircase, Mickey bumps into two more skeletons in a bed, then dives out of a window and into a barrel full of skeletons, which raise their hands menacingly at him.

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Details

Holiday
Halloween
Archive type
Animated Short
Franchise
Disney
Studio
Walt Disney Productions

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