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The Haunted Mansion

Movie-themed Recipes

October 12, 2021 | Updated: September 20, 2022 | Laura

Have a great Haunted Mansion movie night with these two fun and spooky recipes! For dinner, make spooky spider pizza rolls inspired by Michael's fear of spiders. For a cocktail, make a green apple martini inspired by Madame Leota's green haze. Both recipes are perfect for spooky season and Halloween!

The Haunted Mansion Movie Night

That's a big spider!!

So you want to have a Halloween movie night watching The Haunted Mansion? You've come to the right place!

With these two recipes, you are sure to have the perfect spooky movie date night. There's two parts of this movie that I decided to make recipes about so let's get into it!

31 Days of Halloween

These Haunted Mansion themed recipes were created for my 31 Days of Halloween where every day in October I come up with Halloween snacks and drink recipe to pair with horror films, Halloween movies, or a Halloween activity. It's so much fun and a great way to celebrate the spooky holiday.

→ Check out the entire 31 Days of Halloween!

The Haunted Mansion: Fun Movie Facts

Find these facts plus more over on Wikipedia's The Haunted Mansion Page and on IMDb!

✽ Release Date: November 26, 2003

✽ The Haunted Mansions received mostly negative reviews after release, but did gross $182.3 million on a $90 million budget.

✽ The film is loosely based off of Disney's attraction of the same name.

✽ There another film being produced by Walt Disney Pictures named Haunted Mansion set to be released on August 11, 2023.

✽ Madame Leota was modeled by and named after Imagineer Leota Toombs who worked on many Disneyland projects in the 1960s.

✽ Originally the film was going to be set in upstate New York. However, director, Rob Minkoff, and producer, John Myhre, felt like the mansion should be inspired by the Disneyland attraction so they moved the set to New Orleans.

✽ The movie is mostly inspired by Phantom Manor, the Haunted Mansion version in Disneyland Resort Paris. This is the only version of Haunted Mansion that has a clear storyline of a bride, her lost lover, and the haunting of the mansion by this bride.

Looking for more Halloween recipes that pair with popular scary movies or Halloween movies?

→ Check out all of my recipes that pair with movies!

Let's now talk about the two movie themed recipes I created for our Haunted Mansion movie night!

Green Apple Martini

Haunted Mansion Cocktail

This green apple martini has all the Madame Leota vibes.

In The Haunted Mansion, Madame Leota is manifesting as a disembodied head inside of a crystal ball that is green and foggy. The exact same color green as this martini.

I added some dry ice to really make it feel like Madame Leota's crystal ball. This cocktail has all of the green apple flavor filled with green apple vodka, sour apple schnapps, apple juice, and lemon juice. It's tart, sweet, and delicious!

✽ GET RECIPE HERE! → Green Apple Martini

Spooky Spider Pizza Rolls

The Haunted Mansion Food

If you've seen The Haunted Mansion, you probably remember how the son, Michael, is extremely scared of spiders. During the whole movie, he's working through this fear.

I, personally, think that spiders can be pretty cute, and these spider pizza rolls are no exception.

They are rolled up like a cinnamon roll, stuck with pieces of green bell pepper for legs, black olives for a mouth, and green olives with pimento are the eyes!

Fill them up with all of your favorite pizza toppings and enjoy! They are scary tasty!

✽ GET RECIPE HERE! → Spooky Spider Pizza Rolls

Get your appletini and spooky spider pizza rolls made so you can get to watching The Haunted Mansion!

Category: Movie-themed Recipes, Cocktails, Halloween
Keywords: haunted mansion cocktail, haunted mansion dinner, haunted mansion food ideas, haunted mansion movie night, madame leota cocktail, halloween cocktails, halloween pizza rolls recipe, haunted mansion recipes

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More Halloween Movie Inspired Recipes:

✽ Hotel Transylvania (delicious dried date & goat cheese roaches with Blood Beaters [sparkling strawberry gin])
✽ Monster House (a monster house charcuterie board with a sour apple mountain dew cocktail)
✽ Hocus Pocus (witches brew cocktail with a Sanderson Sisters dip trio)
→ Check out all of my movie-themed recipes!

Bon appétit!

October 12, 2021 by Laura Ehlers

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