History Film / GhostTown1988

No relation to the [[Film/GhostTown 2008 supernatural comedy of the same name]].

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* AndSomeOtherStuff: Kate uses the leftover black powder to create a bomb. When she throws it and it detonates in the midst of the undead outlaws, it explodes with a much greater ferocity and effectiveness than Langley was expecting; deva sting much of the gang.

* TheBlacksmith: Smithy, the town blacksmith, and his daughter Etta are too the four citizens who come forward to help Langley fight Devlin and his gang. The other two are [[MissKitty Grace]] and [[ProfessionalGambler Dealer]].

* DealWithTheDevil: According to Devlin, he and his gang gained the status as {{Revenant Zombie}}s via a deal he made with Satan after the town was trapped in purgatory by the sheriff's curse.

* HandGagging: When Langley arrives the town, Kate sees out of the window of the saloon. However, before she can call out, a dedicated hand clamps over her mouth and drags her away from the window.
* ImmuneToBullets: The undead outlaws in ''Film/GhostTown1988'' cannot be harmed by anything made later than the time they were cursed, so when Langley shoots them with his modern firearms, it has no effect beyond putting holes in them. Inly when he acquires period weaponry and ammo from the GhostTown does he stand a chance of hurting them.

* MeekTownsman: It is the refusal of the meek townsfolk to join the sheriff in opposing Deviln and his gang that causes the town to be cursed and then to be trapped in a state of undeath under the rulership of the equally undead Devlin.

* NeckLift: As the title implies, the film is set in a ghost town, complete with ghosts. When the ghostly inhabitants are present, the town looks like it did in its heyday, but when they are absent it looks like it has been abandoned for a century.
* NewOldWest: Even before stumbling upon the GhostTown and the revenant outlaws, Langley is a lone deputy scouring the vast wastes of the Arizona desert for a RunawayBride; albeit in his (Ford) Bronco, rather than on it.
* PantsPositiveSafety: Langley does this after he is given the sheriff's gun as he does not have a holster for it. Interestingly, he does this the 'correct' (as a trained lawman should) by thrusting it through his belt and not down his pants, and having the barrel angled away from his body and not pointing down his leg (or worse, towards his crotch).

* RevenantZombie: Devlin and his gang of outlaws are physical revenants, granted a physical existence courtesy of Devlin's DealWithTheDevil. The other inhabitants of the town are more like ghosts; trapped in the town by the sheriff's curse.

* MissKitty: Grace ran the town's saloon when she was alive, and continues to run it in death. This includes soild doves working in the rooms upstairs.

* NewOldWest: Even before stumbling upon the GhostTown and the revenant outlaws, Langley is a lone deputy scouring the vast wastes of the Arizona desert for a RunawayBride.

* DealWithTheDevil: According to Devlin, he and his gang gained the status as {{Revenant Zombie}} via a deal he made with Satan after the town was trapped in purgatory by the sheriff's curse.

* RevenatZombie: Devlin and his gang of outlaws are physical revenants, granted a physical existence courtesy of Devlin's DealWithTheDevil. The other inhabitants of the town are more like ghosts; trapped in the town by the sheriff's curse.

* MissKitty: Grace ran the town's saloon when she was alive, and continues to run it in death.

* VanishingVillage: The film is set in a WildWest GhosTown that randomly appears and disappears. Murdered by a gang of outlaws, the sheriff used his dying breath to curse the gang and the town that been too cowardly to help him fight to linger on Earth until the outlaw leader Devlin was vanquished by a lawman

* HandGag: When Langley arrives the town, Kate sees out of the window of the saloon. However, before she can call out, a dedicated hand clamps over her mouth and drags her away from the window.

* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar: Grace keeps a double barrelled shotgun beneath the bar in the saloon. She pulls it and levels it at one of Devlin's men to stop him drawing on Langley. Langley later grabs from under the bar to add it to his armory of period weapons.

* IpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Devlin shoves a length of red hot sharpened iron through Smithy and [[NailedToTheWall pins him to the wall with it]].

* NailedToTheWall: Devlin nails Smithy to the wall of his forge with a red hot length of sharpebed iron.

* HandGag: When Langley arrives the town, Kate sees out of the window of the hotel. However, before she can call out, a dedicated hand clamps over her mouth and drags her away from the window.

Deputy Langley tracks a kidnapped girl to an abandoned ghost town. However, the town is not abandoned, but haunted by the spirits of an outlaw, Devlin, and his gang, who hold the equally deceased townspeople in thrall as zombies until the outlaws can be killed by a lawman.