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Spooky Wooky

1950 · 15 min

A breezy, silly haunted-house lark that plays its spooky premise for broad laughs rather than scares.

Directed by
Hal Yates
Genres
Comedy, Horror
Starring
Leon Errol, Dorothy Granger, Wendy Waldron
Overview
Leon manages to get a new house in the country cheap, and the whole family finds out that a mysterious death occurred in it. No one but Leon wants to live there, and so, a wacky plan is conceived to make Leon change his mind about moving.

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In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
Directed by
Hal Yates
Genres
Comedy, Horror
Starring
Leon Errol, Dorothy Granger, Wendy Waldron
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • campystrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • deception
  • fate
Places
  • countryside
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour7
Realism5
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity2
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
comedy, horror
Directed by
Hal Yates
Starring
Leon Errol, Dorothy Granger, Wendy Waldron, Ralph Hodges, Edward Gargan
Runtime
15 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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