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[[File:Seance2006_8440.jpg|frame|"[[Pet Sematary|Sometimes... dead is better.]]"]]
▲{{quote| ''Five college kids, one ghostly killer... you do the math.''}}
'''''Séance''''' is a 2006 supernatural horror film, with some elements of the [[Slasher Movie|slasher genre]].
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For as long as most people can remember, the Chelsea Building (former apartment, now a university dormitory) has been plagued by the spirit of a little girl, nicknamed "Chelsea" after the building. Few know the girl, actually named Cara Furia, lived in the building during the sixties, dying in 1965 when she fell down an elevator shaft when her mother was out, and while her older sister was asleep. Ever since then, Cara has stuck around for reasons unbeknownst to anyone but herself.
By 2006, a girl named Lauren and her friends Alison and Melina have moved into Cara's old place. While Cara's antics (which consist primarily of making patterns on the bathroom floor) intrigue and frighten Lauren, her roommates are quick to dismiss them. When [[
After a bit of partying, and learning about Cara from Grant, Lauren and her roommates decide to hold a séance, led by Diego, a self-proclaimed expert on the subject (he wrote a term paper on spirits... it got a C-). When attempts to communicate with Cara prove futile, the group switch things up and try reaching out to James Spence, a deceased maintenance man who Grant's room used to belong to. Calling out to James actually works, and the group end up successfully summoning him. Unfortunately for them, it turns out James was a serial killer who was executed via the electric chair in 1973 when he was connected to the deaths of several children.
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He's glad to be back in his old home, with a boatload of fun powers at his disposal and... well, see the above tagline.
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* [[Animal Motifs]]: Spiders.
* [[Bedsheet Ladder]]: Lauren suggests trying to escape the building with one.
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** Writing "Killer" on the mirror, and later an empty room, in reference to James.
* [[Curiosity Killed the Cast]]: Attempting to communicate with a benevolent ghost brings forth a really, really bad one.
* [[Death
* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: Lauren's nightmare, and the flashback to Cara's death.
* [[Diary]]: Cara's is found under the floorboards, and it reveals James molested her.
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* [[Genre Shift]]: Essentially goes from haunting to slasher.
* [[Gilligan Cut]]:
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'''Lauren:''' "That we ask her again."
'''Melina:''' "No, no way. No, I am not wasting my time." }}
* [[Ghostly Chill]]
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* [[Jacob Marley Apparel]]: Done with Cara, but not James. For some reason he has his old custodial uniform, instead of the expected prison jumpsuit.
* [[Jerkass]]: Minor examples in the form of Diego and Syd.
* [[Jerk
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: James is invisible in the light.
* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: Grant.
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