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* GraveMarkingScene: After the wake, Sid (who missed the funeral) insists on breaking into the cemetery to say his farewells to Devon personally. Harris and Kira follow to keep him out of trouble.
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* ToAbsentFriends: After the wake, Harris, Kira and Sid adjourn to a bar to remember Devon privately and celebrate his life.
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* DishonouredDead: Harris, Sid and Kira discover that the graves that they desecrated where in a section of the cemetery reserved for town did not want buried with the rest of the dead: violent criminals, the mentally ill, etc. Kira is especially disturbed to discover that the tombstone of William Langer--the grave she danced upon--has the epitaph "GOOD RIDDANCE".
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* DishonouredDead: DishonoredDead: Harris, Sid and Kira discover that the graves that they desecrated where in a section of the cemetery reserved for town did not want buried with the rest of the dead: violent criminals, the mentally ill, etc. Kira is especially disturbed to discover that the tombstone of William Langer--the grave she danced upon--has the epitaph "GOOD RIDDANCE".
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* DishonouredDead: Harris, Sid and Kira discover that the graves that they desecrated where in a section of the cemetery reserved for town did not want buried with the rest of the dead: violent criminals, the mentally ill, etc. Kira is especially disturbed to discover that the tombstone of William Langer--the grave she danced upon--has the epitaph "GOOD RIDDANCE".
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* BunkerWoman: Judge William Langer used to keep women imprisoned in his basement. He forgot about one of them and she perished in the cage. When he returns as a ghost, he keeps Kira imprisoned in her house for several weeks while he tortures and rapes her.
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* {{Sadist}}: Kira is being haunted by the ghost of Judge William Langer, an honored man who was admired by the entire community and died peacefully. Upon his death, they found journals he wrote, which tell of his fetish with sadism and masochism. He would lock women up in cages and tie them with masks over their faces, and eventually kill them, after brutally raping them.
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* CrustyCaretaker: The cemetary caretaker lurks around in the back of many scenes, looking threatening but not otherwise doing anything. However, at the every end of the film, [[spoiler:it is revealed that he is the one leaving the incantation on graves]].
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* CrustyCaretaker: The cemetary cemetery caretaker lurks around in the back background of many scenes, looking threatening but not otherwise doing anything. However, at the every end of the film, [[spoiler:it is revealed that he is the one leaving the incantation on graves]].
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* ManBitesMan: When Kira is rescued from her house and taken to the hospital, she is covered in bites marks from the sadistic ghost that has been holding her prisoner.
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* TheMissusAndTheEx: Allison is uncomfortable around her husband Harris's former girlfriend Kira, whom Harris is still good friends with. The situation becomes even more tense when Allison learns that Harris and Kira kissed during the alcohol-fuelled wake in the cemetery.
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* TheMissusAndTheEx: Allison is uncomfortable around her husband Harris's former girlfriend Kira, whom Harris is still good friends with. The situation becomes even more tense when Allison learns that Harris and Kira kissed during the alcohol-fuelled alcohol-fueled wake in the cemetery.
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* ManBitesMan: When Kira is rescued from her house and taken to the hospital, she is covered in bites marks from the sadistic ghost that has been holding her prisoner.
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* PossessingADeadBody: After [[spoiler:Kira]] is murdered, Emma's ghost possesses her body and uses it to physically attack the survivors [[AnAxeToGrind with an axe]].
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* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:Kira]] is murdered by the ghost slitting her throat, but she remains defiant to the end.
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* BedmateReveal: The horror version. Harris wakes up with a woman's arm draped over his chest, and he assumes it's his wife Allison. Then he hears Allison in the bathroom. He looks over and discovers that the woman next to him is Emma; the venegeful ghost who is trying to kill him. Emma wraps her limbs around him and lunges for him before being hit by the morning light and vanishing.
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** The slim man talking to Kira at the wake is the film's writer, Brad Keene.
** Director of Photography David Armstrong has a cameo as a policeman in the flashback where Emma is discovered playing the piano.
** The slim man talking to Kira at the wake is the film's writer, Brad Keene.
** Director of Photography David Armstrong has a cameo as a policeman in the flashback where Emma is discovered playing the piano.
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* JumpScare: Sid gets separated from the rest of group and locked in a classroom. When the lights go out, he uses the lowlight setting on the video camera to look around the room, only to have Dennis's face loom up suddenly in the viewfinder.
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* UndeadChild: One of the three ghosts that winds up haunting the protagonists is Dennis, a young homicidal PyroManiac.
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* ElectromagneticGhost: The presence of the ghosts in the mansion causes the lights to surge and dim wildly.
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* ElectromagneticGhost: The presence of the ghosts in the mansion causes the lights to surge and dim wildly.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Vincent and Frances are looking for concrete evidence of a supernatural event. While they find it, it turns out to be far more than they can handle.
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* ParanormalInvestigation: When the hauntings start, Sid contacts Vincent Crochet and his assistant Frances; parapsychologists from the local university who are looking for proof of an actual haunting. {{BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Unfortunately for them, they discover it.]]
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* ParanormalInvestigation: When the hauntings start, Sid contacts Vincent Crochet and his assistant Frances; parapsychologists from the local university who are looking for proof of an actual haunting. {{BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Unfortunately for them, they discover it.]]
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* GolfClubbing: When Harris first suspects someone is in his house, he grabs a golf club as a weapon when he goes to investigate.
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* TeaserOnlyCharacter: The film opens with a young woman being attacked by an invisible assailant and then hanged, dropping a mysterious black envelope. Then the screen goes black and a 'One Year Later' appears before the screen fades in on Crescent View Cemetery. The woman is never referenced again. The black envelope does appear, however.
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* ColdOpen: The film opens with a young woman being attacked and murdered by a ghost. This scene has no bearing on anything else that happens in the film. WordOfGod from director Mike Mendez that this scene is the result of ExecutiveMeddling from the producers, who wanted a death in the opening scene so audiences would know it was a horror movie.
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* ChekhovsGun: The axe being used to split firewood when Harris, Allison and Sid first arrive at the mansion. During the final confrontation, Emma summons it to her hand and uses it to go on a rampage.
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* KissingUnderTheInfluence: Exes Harris and Kira share a drunken kiss in the cemetery just before the unfortunate grave-dancing incident. While minor in the overall scheme of things, it does place additional stress of the group when Sid later tells Harris's wife Allison about it.
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* BuriedAlive: During the GraveRobbing scene, Kira is imprisoned inside a coffin that is then slowly sucked into the earth. Later, when Harris attempt to deposit Emma's skull in the grave, he is pulled in as well and covered with dir. [[spoiler:Allison and Victor manage to dig him out.]]
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* EvilDetectingCat: Allison's cat senses that something is seriously wrong with Harris as soon as he returns from the cemetery. It takes one sniff, hisses and flees.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: It is unlikely that any of the bad events of the film would have transpired had not Harris, Kira and Sid been drunk enough to think dancing on graves was a good idea.
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* ManOnFire: Happens to [[spoiler:Sid Vance]] when the pyromaniac ghost sets the entire room ablaze.
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* CarFu: When Harris is trapped inside the mansion with the angry ghosts, Allison drives the hummer through the wall in order to rescue him.
* FootprintsOfMuck: When [[spoiler:Kira's]] body goes missing, Harris and the other follow a set of bloody bare footprints walking away from the room.
* LibationForTheDead: During the impromptu wake in the graveyard, Sid pours a large measure of booze on to Devin's grave.
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* PyroManiac: Sid is haunted by the ghost a child pyromaniac who was responsible for the housefire that killed his entire family. As a ghost, he possesses [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic powers]].
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''The Gravedancers'' is a 2006 American horror film, directed Mike Mendez and starring Creator/DominicPurcell and CreatorClareKramer.
After the funeral of a old friend who died in a car accident, former school friends Harris, Kira, and Sid break into the local cemetery after dark, and after Sid reads a mysterious incantation he finds on one of the nearby tombstones, they dance on the graves. Soon, the three of them find themselves haunted by three different ghosts whose graves they desecrated. Harris and his wife Allison find themselves haunted by a deranged female pianist/ax murderer. Sid gets haunted by a child pyromaniac. And Kira haunted by a sadistic rapist. All of them turn to a paranormal investigator named Vincent Cochet and his assistant Frances to try to help them break the curse they imposed on themselves before the next full moon when they will be killed by the ghosts' wrath.
!!''The Gravedancers contains examples of:
* GraveRobbing: The protagonists break into the cemetery and dig up the remains of those haunting them, so they can rebury them and lay them to rest proerly.
After the funeral of a old friend who died in a car accident, former school friends Harris, Kira, and Sid break into the local cemetery after dark, and after Sid reads a mysterious incantation he finds on one of the nearby tombstones, they dance on the graves. Soon, the three of them find themselves haunted by three different ghosts whose graves they desecrated. Harris and his wife Allison find themselves haunted by a deranged female pianist/ax murderer. Sid gets haunted by a child pyromaniac. And Kira haunted by a sadistic rapist. All of them turn to a paranormal investigator named Vincent Cochet and his assistant Frances to try to help them break the curse they imposed on themselves before the next full moon when they will be killed by the ghosts' wrath.
!!''The Gravedancers contains examples of:
* GraveRobbing: The protagonists break into the cemetery and dig up the remains of those haunting them, so they can rebury them and lay them to rest proerly.
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''The Gravedancers'' is a 2006 American horror film, directed Mike Mendez and starring Creator/DominicPurcell and CreatorClareKramer.
Creator/ClareKramer.
After the funeral of a old friend who died in a car accident, former school friends Harris, Kira, and Sid break into the local cemetery after dark, and after Sid reads a mysterious incantation he finds on one of the nearby tombstones, they dance on the graves. Soon, the three of them find themselves haunted by three different ghosts whose graves they desecrated. Harris and his wife Allison find themselves haunted by a deranged femalepianist/ax pianist/axe murderer. Sid gets haunted by a child pyromaniac. And Kira haunted by a sadistic rapist. All of them turn to a paranormal investigator named Vincent Cochet and his assistant Frances to try to help them break the curse they imposed on themselves before the next full moon when they will be killed by the ghosts' wrath.
!!''TheGravedancers Gravedancers'' contains examples of:
* AnAxeToGrind: When alive, Emma used an axe to murder her lover and his wife. When she comes back from the dead, she continues to use an axe as her WeaponOfChoice.
* AxeCrazy: All of the ghosts. Their only goal is to violently destroy those who desecrated their graves. It is literally true in the case Emma who was an axe murderer when she was alive, and uses an axe as her WeaponOfChoice when she comes back from the dead.
* CrustyCaretaker: The cemetary caretaker lurks around in the back of many scenes, looking threatening but not otherwise doing anything. However, at the every end of the film, [[spoiler:it is revealed that he is the one leaving the incantation on graves]].
* GraveRobbing: The protagonists break into the cemetery and dig up the remains of those haunting them, so they can rebury them and lay them to restproerly.properly.
* PlayingWithFire: The ghost that is haunting Sid is a child pyromaniac who now possesses pyrokinetic powers.
* PyroManiac: Sid is haunted by the ghost a child pyromaniac who was responsible for the housefire that killed his entire family. As a ghost, he possesses [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic powers]].
After the funeral of a old friend who died in a car accident, former school friends Harris, Kira, and Sid break into the local cemetery after dark, and after Sid reads a mysterious incantation he finds on one of the nearby tombstones, they dance on the graves. Soon, the three of them find themselves haunted by three different ghosts whose graves they desecrated. Harris and his wife Allison find themselves haunted by a deranged female
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* AnAxeToGrind: When alive, Emma used an axe to murder her lover and his wife. When she comes back from the dead, she continues to use an axe as her WeaponOfChoice.
* AxeCrazy: All of the ghosts. Their only goal is to violently destroy those who desecrated their graves. It is literally true in the case Emma who was an axe murderer when she was alive, and uses an axe as her WeaponOfChoice when she comes back from the dead.
* CrustyCaretaker: The cemetary caretaker lurks around in the back of many scenes, looking threatening but not otherwise doing anything. However, at the every end of the film, [[spoiler:it is revealed that he is the one leaving the incantation on graves]].
* GraveRobbing: The protagonists break into the cemetery and dig up the remains of those haunting them, so they can rebury them and lay them to rest
* PlayingWithFire: The ghost that is haunting Sid is a child pyromaniac who now possesses pyrokinetic powers.
* PyroManiac: Sid is haunted by the ghost a child pyromaniac who was responsible for the housefire that killed his entire family. As a ghost, he possesses [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic powers]].
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''The Gravedancers'' is a 2006 American horror film, directed Mike Mendez and starring Creator/DominicPurcell and CreatorClareKramer.
After the funeral of a old friend who died in a car accident, former school friends Harris, Kira, and Sid break into the local cemetery after dark, and after Sid reads a mysterious incantation he finds on one of the nearby tombstones, they dance on the graves. Soon, the three of them find themselves haunted by three different ghosts whose graves they desecrated. Harris and his wife Allison find themselves haunted by a deranged female pianist/ax murderer. Sid gets haunted by a child pyromaniac. And Kira haunted by a sadistic rapist. All of them turn to a paranormal investigator named Vincent Cochet and his assistant Frances to try to help them break the curse they imposed on themselves before the next full moon when they will be killed by the ghosts' wrath.
!!''The Gravedancers contains examples of:
* GraveRobbing: The protagonists break into the cemetery and dig up the remains of those haunting them, so they can rebury them and lay them to rest proerly.
After the funeral of a old friend who died in a car accident, former school friends Harris, Kira, and Sid break into the local cemetery after dark, and after Sid reads a mysterious incantation he finds on one of the nearby tombstones, they dance on the graves. Soon, the three of them find themselves haunted by three different ghosts whose graves they desecrated. Harris and his wife Allison find themselves haunted by a deranged female pianist/ax murderer. Sid gets haunted by a child pyromaniac. And Kira haunted by a sadistic rapist. All of them turn to a paranormal investigator named Vincent Cochet and his assistant Frances to try to help them break the curse they imposed on themselves before the next full moon when they will be killed by the ghosts' wrath.
!!''The Gravedancers contains examples of:
* GraveRobbing: The protagonists break into the cemetery and dig up the remains of those haunting them, so they can rebury them and lay them to rest proerly.
