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* ConstructiveBodyDisposal: A father (Kevin Bacon) moves to a house in a Chicagoan suburb, and begins to be haunted by visions of a ghost girl. [[spoiler:The girl was a mentally handicapped teenager who was almost raped by two neighbourhood male teens, one of them the son of the man who is leasing the house for Kevin Bacon's character, and is a house renovator. The man, his son and the son's friend wrap the girl's body in plastic and immure it behind a wall in the basement.]]
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* NeverARunaway: Debbie's mother says that her older daughter, Samantha, ran away. She's actually the girl that was murdered in the house.

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* OnlySaneMan: Maggie believes she's this, because she didn't develop any psychic sensitivities.

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* OnlySaneMan: Subverted. Maggie believes she's this, the only one in her family not going insane, because she didn't develop any psychic sensitivities.



* RewatchBonus - A lot of off-hand remarks made during the movie take on a new twist when you know what's really going on, such as how Frank keeps going on about what a decent neighborhood it is that they all live in.

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* RewatchBonus - RewatchBonus: A lot of off-hand remarks made during the movie take on a new twist when you know what's really going on, such as how Frank keeps going on about what a decent neighborhood it is that they all live in.



* SupernaturalProofFather: An aversion, as in this case, Dad and son get involved with the ghost, but Mom's the one LockedOutOfTheLoop.

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* SupernaturalProofFather: An aversion, Gender inverted, as in this case, Dad and son get involved with the ghost, but Mom's the one LockedOutOfTheLoop.



* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"What were we supposed to do? It was an accident."]]

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[[spoiler:"What were we supposed to do? It was an accident."]]
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* EarWorm: In-universe. Tom hears his son humming a song, and Tom becomes obsessed with figuring out what song it is: "Paint It Black" by Music/TheRollingStones, specifically a cover version by Gob. [[spoiler:The song was playing during the murder, and was the last thing the victim heard as she suffocated.]]

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* EarWorm: In-universe. Tom hears his son humming a song, and Tom becomes obsessed with figuring out what song it is: "Paint It Black" by Music/TheRollingStones, Music/TheRollingStonesBand, specifically a cover version by Gob. [[spoiler:The song was playing during the murder, and was the last thing the victim heard as she suffocated.]]
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Eventually Tom and Jake realize the presence they sense is a ghost of a girl who was murdered in the house some time ago.

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Eventually Tom and Jake realize the presence they sense is a ghost of a girl (Creator/JenniferMorrison) who was murdered in the house some time ago.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Tom wakes up from a dream only to have the same events unfold almost exactly. [[spoiler:The dream also shows Frank's comments that he makes at the end, which appear cryptic in the dream without the context.]]
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** Another one, said by Jake at the beginning of the movie: [[spoiler:"Does it hurt to be dead?"]]

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