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Spelling/grammar fix(es). Did some math for Patricia's age. She was 15 in 1964, which would place her birth year in 1949. So by 1996, she's 49.
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* MayDecemberRomance: An odd example, this. [[spoiler:She was 15 years old when she became romantically involved with Bartlett, who was at least a decade older than her at the time, but while Bartlett was executed and became a spirit that still looks young, she was spared the death sentence and grew to be in her forties or fifties.]]
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* MayDecemberRomance: An odd example, this. [[spoiler:She was 15 years old when she became romantically involved with Bartlett, who was at least a decade older than her at the time, but while Bartlett was executed and became a spirit that still looks young, she was spared the death sentence and grew to be in her forties or fifties.forties.]]
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* PlatoIsAMoron: His goal throughout the film is to become the greatest serial killer who ever existed to rub it in the face of every other serial killer in Hell. His last words in life were even gloating that the Fairweather Sanatorium massacre had one more death than Charles Starkweather's rampage.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: She's named after Creator/MelanieLynskey, who starred in ''Film/HeavenlyCreatures'', Creator/PeterJackson's previous film.
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* MovingBeyondBereavement: Wracked with SurvivorGuilt over escaping the accident that (supposedly) killed his wife, Frank spends most of the film unable to move on with a new LoveInterest. In the end, Frank sees his wife one final time in his AfterlifeWelcome, only for her to return him to life. Her final farewell, encouraging him to be happy, is enough to help him move on.
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* MovingBeyondBereavement: Wracked with SurvivorGuilt over escaping the accident that (supposedly) killed his wife, Frank spends most of the film unable to move on with a new LoveInterest.basically stuck in the moment after his wife's death. In the end, Frank sees his wife one final time in his AfterlifeWelcome, only for her to return him to life. Her final farewell, encouraging him to be happy, is enough to help him move on.on and form a new life with a new LoveInterest.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:She's found stabbed to death by her own daughter]].
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:She's found stabbed to death by her own daughter]].daughter, although considering that Patricia was Bartlet's accomplice her actions may have been justified]].
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* {{Jerkass}}: In a vein similar to [[ComicBook/SpiderMan J. Jonah Jameson]], as she fixates on the idea of Frank as a criminal even though the worst thing he does is stage fake hauntings without ever actually ''harming'' anyone. Even after she's killed by the Soul Collector, her soul condemns Frank as a criminal even as she ascends to the afterlife.
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* {{Jerkass}}: In a vein similar to [[ComicBook/SpiderMan J. Jonah Jameson]], as she fixates on the idea of Frank as a criminal even though the worst thing he does is stage fake hauntings without ever actually ''harming'' anyone. Even after she's killed by the Soul Collector, her Magda's soul condemns Frank as a criminal and the one who actually killed his wife even as she ascends to the afterlife.
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No ZC Es.
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* HeroicBSOD: Undergoes this halfway through the film after failing to save [[spoiler:Magda]] from the Soul Collector.
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* HeroicBSOD: Undergoes He undergoes this halfway through the film after failing to save [[spoiler:Magda]] from the Soul Collector.
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* DoesNotLikeWomen: Due to some unexplained past trauma,
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* DoesNotLikeWomen: Due to some unexplained past trauma, he flinches away from physical contact with a woman and reacts to Patricia's screaming by panicking.
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* MeanBoss: Especially in the DirectorsCut.
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* MeanBoss: Especially in the
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* MonsterProtectionRacket: Since real hauntings are apparently not very common, despite the graveyard being full of ghosts, he makes most of his money by sending his ghostly sidekicks to create blatantly supernatural stunts at houses, then shows up and performs a phony exorcism for cash.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: She admits this to Frank during their seance at the restaurant.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: She admits this that her and Ray's marriage was honestly pretty bad to Frank during their seance at the restaurant.
* NearDeathClairvoyance: [[spoiler:In the film's epilogue, she reveals that everything she underwent in defeating Bartlett and Bradley has unlocked her ability to perceive ghosts as well.]]
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* RavenHairIvorySkin: She has black hair and light skin.
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* RavenHairIvorySkin: She She's a beautiful woman who has black hair and light skin.
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* HeroicSacrifice: In the {{novelization}}, when he sees the Soul Collector coming for Lucy, Ray attempts a YouShallNotPass on the apparition who, in turn, draws his scythe and [[DeathByAThousandCuts slices Ray up something fierce]]. Though he ultimately doesn't survive, it's a lot better than his death in the film, in which he's rather unceremoniously KilledOffForReal by the Soul Collector.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In the {{novelization}}, when he sees the Soul Collector coming for Lucy, Ray attempts a YouShallNotPass on the apparition who, in turn, draws his scythe and [[DeathByAThousandCuts slices Ray up something fierce]]. Though he ultimately doesn't survive, it's a lot better than his death in the film, in which he's rather unceremoniously KilledOffForReal by the Soul Collector.
%%* JerkJockCollector, who drops his mangled ectoplasmic corpse on his wife's car where she can't even see it.]]
* JerkJock: He's very big on physical health and fitness, but also self-centered, arrogant, pushy, and kind of domineering.
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* JerkJock: He's very big on physical health and fitness, but also self-centered, arrogant, pushy, and kind of domineering.
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The police chief of Fairwater.
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The police chief of Fairwater. He and Frank seem to know each other and be on fairly friendly terms, and he's also one of the people most open-minded towards Frank's PsychicPowers.
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* InvisibleToNormals: Only psychics like Frank can see them.
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* InvisibleToNormals: Only psychics like Frank can see or hear them.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: They're created when a dead human's soul choses not to go into the afterlife, appear as translucent versions of the people they were in life. They can interact with the physical world to a degree, but are largely intangible and can't change major aspects about their appearance. It's implied that being a ghost causes their appearance to physically decline, but it's unclear; Cyrus and Stuart look pretty normal, as do all the ghosts in the Fairweather cemetary, but the Judge visibly looks like a rotting husk of a man who is mostly bone with some leathery skin still lingering on his face and torso, whilst Ray's face visibly starts rotting after he's been a ghost for a day or two. If they miss their chance to go to the afterlife upon death, they get a second chance a year later (it's unclear if this is their only second chance), but can also move on to the afterlife by either following a newly departing soul or by having their remains brought onto holy ground. [[spoiler:If the scythe of TheGrimReaper is used on a ghost, it is "killed", but this transports them from Earth to the afterlife.]]
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* DirtyOldMan: Tries to have 'sex' with a mummy, observing that he likes it when a woman still has her own teeth.
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* DirtyOldMan: Tries to have 'sex' with When he sees an x-ray display of a mummy, female Egyptian mummy in the museum, he starts leering lasciviously at it, observing that he likes it when a woman still has her own teeth.teeth. [[spoiler:Then he jumps into her coffin and very obviously has offscreen sex with it, lustfully commenting on how he likes it when they lie still after he's done.]]
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* TheGrimReaper: His general appearance.
* TheGrimReaper: His general appearance.
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* ResurrectedMurderer: TheGrimReaper that is killing people turns out to be the ghost of an executed serial killer named Johnny Bartlett. His equally deranged girlfriend used {{Ouija Board}}s to summon him back from {{Hell}}, and now he's continuing his quest to [[BodyCountCompetition become the most prolific murderer in history]].
* SerialKiller: He killed 12 people during his rampage.
* SerialKiller: He killed 12 people during his rampage.
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* MayDecemberRomance: Johnny was in his early/mid-twenties, whilst Patricia was only a teenager of 15 years. [[spoiler:In the present, Johnny now is the ghostly remains of a twenty-something man, whilst Patricia has visibly aged and now looks a decade older.]]
* OutlawCouple: In 1964, Johnny Bartlett went on a rampage through the Fairweather Sanatorium, gunning down a dozen people whilst egged on by his infatuated girlfriend, which ended with her in prison and him executed. [[spoiler:Less than four years before the present, she summoned him back from hell to resume his killing spree.]]
* ResurrectedMurderer: [[spoiler: TheGrimReaper that is killing people turns out to be the ghost of an executed serial killer named Johnny Bartlett. His equally deranged girlfriend used {{Ouija Board}}s to summon him back from {{Hell}}, and now he's continuing his quest to [[BodyCountCompetition become the most prolific murderer inhistory]].
history]].]]
* SerialKiller: He killed 12 people during his rampage. His only rational for going on a killing spree seems to have been [[ForTheEvulz for fun and notoriety]]. [[spoiler:He returns as a ghost to resume killing, racking up twenty eight kills and change during the "less than four year" period directly before the movie starts. By the film's end, he's formally claimed 40 kills (plus the four ghosts he dispatched).]]
* OutlawCouple: In 1964, Johnny Bartlett went on a rampage through the Fairweather Sanatorium, gunning down a dozen people whilst egged on by his infatuated girlfriend, which ended with her in prison and him executed. [[spoiler:Less than four years before the present, she summoned him back from hell to resume his killing spree.]]
* ResurrectedMurderer: [[spoiler: TheGrimReaper that is killing people turns out to be the ghost of an executed serial killer named Johnny Bartlett. His equally deranged girlfriend used {{Ouija Board}}s to summon him back from {{Hell}}, and now he's continuing his quest to [[BodyCountCompetition become the most prolific murderer in
* SerialKiller: He killed 12 people during his rampage. His only rational for going on a killing spree seems to have been [[ForTheEvulz for fun and notoriety]]. [[spoiler:He returns as a ghost to resume killing, racking up twenty eight kills and change during the "less than four year" period directly before the movie starts. By the film's end, he's formally claimed 40 kills (plus the four ghosts he dispatched).]]
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Bartlett's lover and PsychoSupporter who participated in the 1964 slayings at Fairwater Sanatorium but was spared the death penalty due to being underage at the time. Lives at home with her strict mother.
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Bartlett's lover and PsychoSupporter who participated in the 1964 slayings at Fairwater Sanatorium but was spared the death penalty due to a combination of being underage at the time.time, being a girl, and the inability of the courts to prove she actively participated in the killing herself. Lives at home with her strict mother.
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* SerialKiller: It was never proven that she was involved directly in the massacre, but she was considered an accessory to the rampage, and so she spent twenty-five years in prison. [[spoiler: She set Johnny free from Hell to resume killing, making her directly responsible for the people he killed as the Soul Collector.]]
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* CoveredWithScars: His entire torso is covered with scars, tattoos, and other ritual markings.
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* CoveredWithScars: His entire torso is covered with scars, tattoos, and other ritual markings.markings, including a swastika on his palm.
* DefectiveDetective: He's a licensed FBI investigator, but it's ''very'' obvious from even slight interaction that there's something majorly not right with the guy. At first, he seems nebbish, distractible and milquetoast, but over the course of the film, he proves to be legitimately dangerous in his unhinged antics.
* DoesNotLikeWomen: Due to some unexplained past trauma,
* DefectiveDetective: He's a licensed FBI investigator, but it's ''very'' obvious from even slight interaction that there's something majorly not right with the guy. At first, he seems nebbish, distractible and milquetoast, but over the course of the film, he proves to be legitimately dangerous in his unhinged antics.
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* OccultDetective: He had infiltrated the worst cults imaginable. All for his country.
** DefectiveDetective: He's not right in the head, though.
** DefectiveDetective: He's not right in the head, though.
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* OccultDetective: He had has infiltrated the worst cults imaginable. All imaginable, and pursued all manner of strange, seemingly supernatural crimes and criminals, all for the sake of his country.
** DefectiveDetective: He's not right in the head, though.country.
** DefectiveDetective: He's not right in the head, though.
