Boo

"You don't have a ghost of a chance."

Director: Anthony C. Ferrante Year: 2005 Runtime: 94 min IMDb: ⭐ 4.7
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Synopsis

The friends Emmett, Freddy, Marie, Kevin and his reluctant girlfriend Jessie decide to spend the Halloween night in an abandoned hospital. Meanwhile, the younger Allan meets the old friend of his father Arlo Ray Baines and asks him to help to find his vanished sister Meg in the same spot. The two groups meet each other in the mental institution section on the haunted third floor.

Jessie Holden is invited by her boyfriend, Kevin, and two friends, Freddy and Marie, to spend one Halloween night at Santa Mira Hospital, abandoned years ago due to a fire. Their friend, Emmett, is preparing the props to scare Jessie when he and his dog, Dutchess, are attacked by a ghost. Meanwhile, Allan is searching for his sister, Meg, who went missing with her friend, Caitlin, in the hospital a few days ago. His father's old friend, former actor-turned-cop Arlo Ray Baines, initially refuses his plea to accompany him to the hospital, but changes his mind and trails him anyway. Allan finds Dutchess horribly mutilated, but she suddenly rises up and attacks him until he shoots and blows her to bits. Upon entering the third floor, he reunites with Meg, who says that she got separated from Caitlin. Arriving at the hospital, the four friends begin searching for Emmett. When they are alone, Kevin cheats on Jessie by having sex with Marie. Meanwhile, Jessie, who is revealed to be spiritually aware, tells Freddy the story of her late mother, who died due to disease years ago but is still calling her every Halloween. The two stumble upon a terrified Emmett in the locker room. When the five meet up, Emmett suddenly begins attacking them. Allan and Meg arrive in time and Meg uses Allan's gun to shoot Emmett to bits. She tells the group that everyone who die in the hospital are reanimated; Emmett and Dutchess are among them. A paranoid Kevin, suspecting that Marie is becoming a ghost, grabs Allan's gun and shoots her dead. Since Meg refuses to use the elevator, the group split up, with Jessie, Kevin, and Freddy taking Marie's body to the elevator and Allan and Meg using the stairs. The former three are transported to the third floor, where Jessie has a series of premonitions involving a child murderer named Jacob. Jacob was committed to the hospital's third floor that was specifically reserved for mental patients. Despite this, he managed to murder a little girl in the hospital's premises anyway. When he tried to run away by burning the hospital as distraction, Nurse Russell threw away the door keys, trapping both of them in the fire. Jacob has been killing and reanimating people in the hospital so he can possess them, but all have failed so far. While inspecting the floor, Kevin goes missing. Jessie and Freddy reunite with Allan, Meg, and Arlo, who has killed a reanimated Caitlin and decided to save them all. They find Kevin trapped by the little girl's spirit and manage to free him, but in the process, Freddy is revealed to have died and was reanimated, forcing Arlo to shoot him. The rest try to escape through the stairs, however, Jessie eventually realizes that until they are able to beat Jacob, he will never allow them to leave. To do it, she impersonates Nurse Russell, intending to scare him from the living world. The plan works. Nevertheless, Jacob uses a reanimated Marie to kill Kevin. Kevin is reanimated, but shows no symptom of a normal ghost. It is revealed that he is directly possessed by Jacob, who finds Kevin, a sociopath, to be a perfect vessel. At the same time, Meg shows herself to be a reanimation; she had died alongside Caitlin back then. However, she is possessed by Russell and retains her control. Russell tells the group to leave while she confronts and successfully subdues Jacob. Jessie, Allan, and Arlo leave the premises safely, finding out that it is already the noon of All Saints' Day outside. Back at the hospital, Jacob vows to escape, but Russell casually states that he will have to get through her first before turning off the lights.

Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

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Content Warnings

⭐ IMDb Parents Guide 🛡️ Common Sense Media

a dog dies
spoiler You don't actually see the dog (Dutchess) die on film, but you do hear her yelp when she is being killed. Later, you see her remains left from being skinned. Then her remains move or "animate," and I'm not sure why because I closed my eyes. To be safe and avoid this whole scene, skip from 20:30 to 22:00.
there's a dead animal
Yes
there are spiders
Yes
animals are abused
Yes
there are bugs
spoiler Maggots fall from the clown costume at about 40 min. in.
a pet dies
Yes
an animal dies
Yes
there's child abuse
spoiler Child is lured into a close by an adult man, nothing else shown on screen but it is referenced he "likes to hurt kids"
someone gets gaslighted
Yes
there's addiction
Yes
alcohol abuse
Yes
someone uses drugs
spoiler There are very brief scenes involving marijuana
there's pedophilia
Yes
someone is restrained
Yes
there's excessive gore
Yes
there's shaving/cutting
Yes
there's amputation
Yes
someone struggles to breathe
Yes
someone has a seizure
Yes
there's finger/toe mutilation
Yes
someone is burned alive
Yes
teeth are damaged
spoiler A man pulls out one of his own teeth which has come loose due to a curse; his mouth bleeds
there's eye mutilation
Yes
there's torture
Yes
heads get squashed
spoiler Pipe(?) to the head, head caves in
a kid dies
spoiler young people are dying
someone cheats
Yes
A child's dear toy is destroyed
Yes
a parent dies
Yes
there are jump scares
Yes
there are clowns
spoiler brief scene in which one character dresses as a clown; another scene later on where the clown is a ghost
there's ghosts
Yes
someone is possessed
Yes
There's audio gore
Yes
there's spitting
Yes
there's a mental institution scene
spoiler In flashback scenes, the mental ward of the abandoned hospital is shown to be operational.
electro-therapy is used
spoiler Several scenes of electro-therapy, not sure why there are "nos"
there's a hospital scene
spoiler The action is set at an abandoned hospital. There is no real hospital treatment happening, but there are wheelchairs, gurneys, and similar props.
someone dies by suicide
spoiler At about 1 hr 20 min, a character slashes her wrist with a razor. She does not die and the scene is actually a vision. However, in the next 5 min. a character shoots herself and another.
someone self harms
spoiler At about 1 hr. 5 min. a character intentionally smashes his hand.
a mentally ill person is violent
Yes
someone has an anxiety attack
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
spoiler Throughout the abandoned hospital, the lights flash as the electricity is unstable.
someone miscarries
Yes
a pregnant person dies
Yes
there's ableist language or behavior
Yes
the black guy dies first
Yes
there is sexual content
Yes
a male character is ridiculed for crying
spoiler A young man is told not to be a crybaby, but he wasn't actually crying at the time.
the ending is sad
Yes
there's blood/gore
Yes
there's gun violence
Yes

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