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* EvilLaugh / LaughingMad: The Jackal.

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* EvilLaugh / LaughingMad: The Jackal.Jackal
**The Bound Woman as well, though she doesn't appear as often as The Jackal does. [[spoiler: This is particularly evident after the ghosts kill Cyrus.]]
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* ActorAllusion: Elaine is referred to as a witch multiple times, referencing the most famous role of her actor Margaret Hamilton: [[TheWizardOfOz Wicked Witch of the West]].

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* ActorAllusion: Elaine is referred to as a witch multiple times, referencing the most famous role of her actor Margaret Hamilton: [[TheWizardOfOz Wicked Witch of the West]]. [[spoiler:This time, though, she's a Good Witch.]]
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* BannisterSlideBanisterSlide
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!!1960 original has:

* AbsentMindedProfessor: Cyrus.
* ActorAllusion: Elaine is referred to as a witch multiple times, referencing the most famous role of her actor Margaret Hamilton: [[TheWizardOfOz Wicked Witch of the West]].
* AmoralAttorney
* AnAxeToGrind: One of the ghosts is a pair of hands carrying an axe.
* BannisterSlide
* CollectorOfTheStrange
* CreepyHousekeeper: Elaine.
* DeathTrap
* DemBones: One ghosts is a skeleton on fire.
* DramaticWind: Presence of ghosts and other otherworldly things are punctuated by a sudden gusts of wind.
* EvilChef: Emilio who murdered his family before death.
* EvilLaugh
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual
* HauntedHouse
* HighClassGlass: Plato Zorba used to wear one.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard
* JacobMarleyApparel
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Hilda notes that Buck is sometimes just as absent-minded as his father.
* LosAngeles
* LosingYourHead: Shadrack the Great, who lost his head when he put it into mouth of the lion...and it bit him. The ghost of the lion also dwells in the house.
* NeverRecycleABuilding
* NuclearFamily
* OrIsIt
* OurGhostsAreDifferent
* ScreamingWoman
* SplitScreen: Used early in the film when Hilda calls Cyrus about the mortgage.
* SpookySeance
* ThirteenIsUnlucky
* UnfinishedBusiness
* TheUnintelligible: The arguing ghost couple.
* WhipItGood: Ghost of Shadrack still carries the whip from his lion tamer days.
* {{Will}}

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** Last but not least [[spoiler: Cyrus Kritikos who has orchestrated the abduction of Kathy and Bobby so that Arthur will become the 13th ghost to trigger The Machine's activation. He also has no esitation to put the children in danger knowing it's the only reason why Arthur will sacrifice himself.]]

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** Last but not least [[spoiler: Cyrus Kritikos who has orchestrated the abduction of Kathy and Bobby so that Arthur will become the 13th ghost to trigger The Machine's activation. He also has no esitation to put the children in danger knowing it's the only reason why Arthur will sacrifice himself.]]

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** The Jackal also counts since when he was alive he had an insatiable lust for women, rape, and murdering prostitutes.
** [[spoiler: Cyrus Kritikos who has orchestrated the abduction of Kathy and Bobby so that Arthur will become the 13th ghost to trigger The Machine's activation. He also has no esitation to put the children in danger knowing it's the only reason why Arthur will sacrifice himself.]]

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** The Jackal also counts since - when he was alive he had an insatiable lust for women, rape, and murdering prostitutes.
** Last but not least [[spoiler: Cyrus Kritikos who has orchestrated the abduction of Kathy and Bobby so that Arthur will become the 13th ghost to trigger The Machine's activation. He also has no esitation to put the children in danger knowing it's the only reason why Arthur will sacrifice himself.]]

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* BeardOfEvil

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* BeardOfEvilBeardOfEvil: [[spoiler: Cyrus]].

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** Also The Great Child.



* EvilLaugh / LaughingMad

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* EvilLaugh / LaughingMadLaughingMad: The Jackal.



* TheGrotesque: The Great Child and The Dire Mother.



* KarmicDeath

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* KarmicDeathKarmicDeath: [[spoiler: Cyrus Kriticos]].

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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Cyrus Kritikos]].

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* CompleteMonster: The Juggernaut - according to his backstory he was a serial killer who would pick up female hitchhikers on the road and drive them back to his junkyard, then tear them apart with his bare hands and feed them to his dogs.
** The Jackal also counts since when he was alive he had an insatiable lust for women, rape, and murdering prostitutes.
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[[spoiler: Cyrus Kritikos]].Kritikos who has orchestrated the abduction of Kathy and Bobby so that Arthur will become the 13th ghost to trigger The Machine's activation. He also has no esitation to put the children in danger knowing it's the only reason why Arthur will sacrifice himself.]]
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* CuteMonsterGirl: Tha Angry Princess. Come on, althought all those scars you must admit she's pretty hot.
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* UnexpectedInheritance
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* TitleByNumber
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* HatesBeingTouched: Dennis, and [[PsychicPowers for a good reason]].


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* StopHelpingMe: When Dennis goes into spasms, Arthur grabs him in an attempt to help him and unknowingly makes his condition worse.

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!! ''ThirteenGhosts'' contains examples of:

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!! 2001 remake of ''ThirteenGhosts'' contains examples of:



* AnAxeToGrind: Great Child carries an axe.
* BaldOfEvil: The Hammer.
* BatterUp: The Torn Prince carries a baseball bat.
* BeardOfEvil
* BigDamnHeroes: When The Jackal is attacking Kathy, Kalina arrives to help.
* BigFancyHouse
* BlackEyesOfEvil: The Angry Princess' eyes.



* BloodFromTheMouth
* BulletTime: Brief slow motion effects are shown randomly in the early parts of the movie.
* CassandraTruth: Arthur has hard time believing Dennis' warnings about the ghosts at first.
* ChainedByFashion: The Hammer.
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Arthur attempts to break the glass surrounding the house with a chair.
* ChildByRape: How The Dire Mother got her child.
* ClosedCircle



* CouldntFindAPen: The Angry Princess' suicide note.
* CreepyBasement: It's literally filled with ghosts!



* DrivenToSuicide: How The Angry Princess died.
* DropTheHammer: Guess.



* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning
* EvilLaugh / LaughingMad



* [[spoiler:FakingTheDead: Cyrus Kriticos.]]



* FemmeFatalons: The Jackal prefers to use his fingernails when he's attacking.
* FlippingTheBird



* LuckyCharmsTitle: The remake.

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* LuckyCharmsTitle: HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:The last ghost will manifest itself this way]].
* IShallTauntYou
* ImpendingDoomPOV
* JumpScare: Lampshaded.
--> '''Dennis''': Oh, God! I hate it when they do that!
--> '''Maggie''': Do what?
--> '''Dennis''': They wait for your to stick your FACE right up against the glass! And then give you a big, fat "boo"!
* KarmicDeath
* KnifeNut:
The remake.Angry Princess.
* LetsSplitUpGang
* {{Letters 2 Numbers}}
* LockDown
* LosingYourHead: The Torso's head.



* {{Malaproper}}: Bobby makes a few of those.
* MrExposition: While taking shelter in Cyrus' office, Kalina explains the purpose of the house and the Black Zodiac.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* NamesTheSame: The Torn Prince's name is Royce Clayton and he was a baseball player. There was actually a major league baseball player named Royce Clayton.
* PowerOfLove: [[spoiler:Thirteenth ghost's specialty]].
* PsychicPowers
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:When the house is destroyed, all the ghosts are free again, especially the most dangerous ones]].



* SlashedThroat
* SwordCane



* TitleDrop
* TwoFaced: The Withered Lover and The Torn Prince.



* VideoWills
* WindowPain



* Also Dennis, his powers make his life a living hell

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* ** Also Dennis, his powers make his life a living hell
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* BlessedWithSuck: Dennis Rafkin is a medium with the ability to detect ghosts and and instantly read minds through physical contact. He also has no control whatsoever over his powers and they tend to give him seizures.
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* Also Dennis, his powers make his life a living hell
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** [[AllThereInTheManual She died in a bathtub slicing herself to ribbons because she didn't feel she was pretty enough.]] So, yes, gratuitous boobs, with [[FanDisservice a side order of self-mutilation]].
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* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Cyrus Kritikos]].
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*** Um, no, watch the movie more closely, [[spoiler: that was just a trick he was using to try and get Arthur to become the 13th Ghost that was needed to power the machine].]

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*** Um, no, watch the movie more closely, [[spoiler: that was just a trick he was using to try and get Arthur to become the 13th Ghost that was needed to power the machine].]machine]].
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** A correction is that he doesn't need 13, he needs 12. [[spoiler: The 13th is a method of stopping the machine powered by the other 12.]]

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** A correction is that he doesn't need 13, he needs 12. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The 13th is a method of stopping the machine powered by the other 12.]]
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***Um, no, watch the movie more closely, [[spoiler: that was just a trick he was using to try and get Arthur to become the 13th Ghost that was needed to power the machine].]

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* CreepyChild: Ghost #1, the First-born Son, who is dressed as a cowboy has an arrow through his head and carries a tomahawk around. Played oddly with the Large Child, who isn't an actual child, but is a huge, 40-year-old man in a diaper holding an ax.

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* CreepyChild: Ghost #1, the First-born Son, who is dressed as a cowboy has with an arrow through his head and carries a tomahawk around. Played oddly with the Large Great Child, who isn't an actual child, but is a huge, 40-year-old man in a diaper holding an ax.


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* {{Fanservice}}: Unless you're telling me the plot ''required'' the Angry Princess to be naked...
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** JerkassWoobie: The Torn Prince, the Angry Princess, the Pilgrimess, the Bound Woman.

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** JerkassWoobie: The Torn Prince, the Angry Princess, Prince and the Pilgrimess, who became jerks after death for obvious reasons and the Angry Princess and the Bound Woman.Woman, who were tragic and bitchy victims.
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* TheWoobie: Arthur and his family[[spoiler:, especially his poor wife, the Withered Lover.]] Also, the Dire Mother.
**JerkassWoobie: The Torn Prince, the Angry Princess, the Pilgrimess, the Bound Woman.
**WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The Great Child and the Hammer.
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-> "Well, the other option is I have enough explosives to blow us back to the middle ages, of course none of us would be around to brag about it afterward."

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The film concerns Cyrus Zorba, whose occultist uncle Dr. Plato Zorba has willed a huge, ramshackle house to Cyrus and his impoverished family, fully furnished and outfitted with a housekeeper, plus a fortune in treasure. Now for the bad news: This house is haunted by twelve ghosts, who are imprisoned there, waiting for an unlucky thirteenth ghost to free them. The only waY to see the ghosts is with special goggles left behind by Dr. Zorba In addition, there is a more mortal peril in the house with them, in the form of someone who wants to claim Zorba's money for himself, and is willing to kill its rightful heirs to steal it.

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The film concerns Cyrus Zorba, whose occultist uncle Dr. Plato Zorba has willed a huge, ramshackle house to Cyrus and his impoverished family, fully furnished and outfitted with a housekeeper, plus a fortune in treasure. Now for the bad news: This house is haunted by twelve ghosts, who are imprisoned there, waiting for an unlucky thirteenth ghost to free them. The only waY way to see the ghosts is with special goggles left behind by Dr. Zorba In addition, there is a more mortal peril in the house with them, in the form of someone who wants to claim Zorba's money for himself, and is willing to kill its rightful heirs to steal it.
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''ThirteenGhosts'' (1960) is a horror movie directed by William Castle and written by Rob White. It was filmed in "Illusion-O", allowing viewers to see the ghosts using special glasses made of red and blue cellophane; viewing them through the red filter made them visible, while watching through the blue filter made them vanish. (It is worth noting, though, that the ghosts were quite visible without using the red filter, SoYeah.)

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''ThirteenGhosts'' (1960) is a horror movie directed by William Castle and written by Rob White. It was filmed in "Illusion-O", allowing viewers to see the ghosts using special glasses made of red and blue cellophane; viewing them through the red filter made them visible, while watching through the blue filter made them vanish. (It is worth noting, though, that the ghosts were quite visible without using the red filter, SoYeah.filter.)
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: The 2001 remake ends with [[spoiler: The bad guy (Cyrus)being violently punished, the ghosts being released, and with all the members of the members of the Kriticos family (Including the nanny) alive, and even the ghost of the dead mother seems to have found peace at the end.]]

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