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Poltergay

2006 · 93 min

A silly, warm-hearted haunted-house romp where the scares are played for laughs and the ghosts are more helpful than spooky.

Directed by
Eric Lavaine
Genres
Comedy, Horror
Starring
Clovis Cornillac, Julie Depardieu, Lionel Abelanski
Overview
Marc and Emma move into a new house but have no idea that their basement was a gay nightclub. To make matters worse, the club was destroyed by fire, and now the house is haunted by the ghosts of five gay clubbers.

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Directed by
Eric Lavaine
Genres
Comedy, Horror
Starring
Clovis Cornillac, Julie Depardieu, Lionel Abelanski
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • campystrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • identity
  • found family
  • isolation
  • healing
Places
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour7
Realism3
Romance4
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight3

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Genres
comedy, horror
Directed by
Eric Lavaine
Written by
Eric Lavaine, Héctor Cabello Reyes
Starring
Clovis Cornillac, Julie Depardieu, Lionel Abelanski, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus, Jean-Michel Lahmi, Philippe Duquesne, Georges Gay, Michel Duchaussoy
Music
Guillaume Atlan, Grégory Louis
Cinematography
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Runtime
93 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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