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A ''brilliant'' [[The Nineties|1996]] horror/comedy film from [[Peter Jackson]], director of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' (2001-2003) and ''[[King Kong]]'' (2005).
[[Michael J Fox]] is Frank Bannister, a fraudulent [[Who You Gonna Call?|freelance exorcist]] who's not ''quite'' as fraudulent as he appears. Having acquired the ability to [[I See Dead People|see and communicate with the dead]] after a tragic car accident that killed his wife years ago, Frank sends his three ghostly accomplices -- white n' nerdy Stuart, black swinger Cyrus and cowboy corpse The Judge -- to wreak paranormal havoc at the homes of wealthy clients-to-be. These people call Frank, he shows up to perform a phony exorcism, then leaves with the cash. He's the world's greatest con man...until dozens of perfectly healthy people in his hometown of Fairwater, Maine start dropping dead from cardiac arrest -- the very ''same'' people who suddenly acquired numbered tattoos on their foreheads that only Frank can see.
Soon after one of these victims, Ray Lynskey (Peter Dobson), becomes a ghost and pleads Frank to help him find his way toward [[Go Into the Light|The Light]], Frank and his undead buddies discover the cause of the phenomenon: A malicious spirit in the form of [[The Grim Reaper]] ([[Sinister Scythe|scythe]] and all) has gone on a mad killing spree, literally squeezing the life from his victims' hearts. And not only that, it appears he has the ability to [[Deader Than Dead|even kill ghosts]] by forcing them to move on to the next world. Frank and Dr. [[Love Interest|Lucy Lynskey]] (Trini Alvarado), Ray's widow, hatch a radical plan to put an end to the murders, but along the way, they must deal with Milton Dammers ([[Jeffrey Combs]]), a maniacal FBI agent (basically a cross between [[The X Files|Mulder]] and [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]) who believes that Frank is psychically killing the murder victims, and will go to [[Hell]] and back to see him brought to justice.
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* [[Abandoned Hospital]]: The finale, {{spoiler|the site of the killers' original rampage}}.
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* [[Mundane Utility]]: Frank uses his power to make a living as a con man.
* [[My Death Is Just the Beginning]]
* [[Near
* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]: Apparently in [[Heaven]], {{spoiler|Stu}}'s a regular [[Chick Magnet]].
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: {{spoiler|Frank's plan to confront the ghostly reaper involves deliberate flatlining in order to fight as a ghost. Both times, he's thankfully able to revive before it becomes permanent.}}
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: The movie was originally going to be a ''[[Tales From the Crypt]]'' feature, but producers thought the script was strong enough to stand on its own.
** A whole character, the gatekeeper, was deleted from the movie. He was supposed to be a 6 foot cherub and function as a sidekick to R. Lee Ermey, but all remnants of him was removed completely from the movie, when it was realised that his character, besides being superfluous, didn't really make a lick of sense, within the universe of the movie.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: We see Cyrus and Stuart in the afterlife, but we never see the Judge after the museum or Rusty the Dog after his intro. They had scenes later, in the cemetary, and the end originally featured the Judges upper-body riding Rusty and heading west, into the sunset, but they were deleted from the movie.
* [[Who You Gonna Call?]]: Frank Bannister, "freelance exorcist"!
* [[Worm Sign]]
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