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* TheEndOrIsIt: The movie ends [[spoiler:with one of the ghosts smashing the ghost-viewing goggles with a dark laugh, while Elaine [[IncrediblyLamePun wickedly]] grins at the audience [[ActorAllusion and grabs a broom]]...]]

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* TheEndOrIsIt: The movie ends [[spoiler:with one of the ghosts smashing the ghost-viewing goggles with a dark laugh, while Elaine [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} wickedly]] grins at the audience [[ActorAllusion and grabs a broom]]...]]
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://13ghosts.wikia.com/wiki/13_Ghosts_Wiki One]] for both this film and the remake.
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* WhipItGood: Ghost of Shadrach still carries the whip from his lion tamer days.
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* AnAxeToGrind: One of the ghosts is a pair of hands carrying an ax.
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The film concerns Cyrus Zorba, whose occultist uncle Dr. Plato Zorba has willed a huge, ramshackle house to Cyrus and his impoverished family, fully furnished and outfitted with a housekeeper, plus a fortune in treasure. Now for the bad news: This house is haunted by twelve ghosts, who are imprisoned there, waiting for an unlucky thirteenth ghost to free them. The only way to see the ghosts is with special goggles left behind by Dr. Zorba In addition, there is a more mortal peril in the house with them, in the form of someone who wants to claim Zorba's money for himself, and is willing to kill its rightful heirs to steal it.

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The film concerns Cyrus Zorba, whose occultist uncle Dr. Plato Zorba has willed a huge, ramshackle house to Cyrus and his impoverished family, fully furnished and outfitted with a housekeeper, plus a fortune in treasure. Now for the bad news: This house is haunted by twelve ghosts, who are imprisoned there, waiting for an unlucky thirteenth ghost to free them. The only way to see the ghosts is with special goggles left behind by Dr. Zorba Zorba. In addition, there is a more mortal peril in the house with them, in the form of someone who wants to claim Zorba's money for himself, and is willing to kill its rightful heirs to steal it.
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* NumberOfObjectsTitle: AntagonistTitle-style.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Ben.]]
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''13 Ghosts'' (1960) is a horror movie directed by Creator/WilliamCastle and written by Rob White. It was filmed in "Illusion-O", allowing viewers to see the ghosts using special glasses made of red and blue cellophane; viewing them through the red filter made them visible, while watching through the blue filter made them vanish. (It is worth noting, though, that the ghosts were quite visible without using the red filter.)

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''13 Ghosts'' (1960) is a horror movie directed by Creator/WilliamCastle and Creator/WilliamCastle, written by Rob White.White, and starring Donald Woods, Creator/MargaretHamilton, and Martin Milner. It was filmed in "Illusion-O", allowing viewers to see the ghosts using special glasses made of red and blue cellophane; viewing them through the red filter made them visible, while watching through the blue filter made them vanish. (It is worth noting, though, that the ghosts were quite visible without using the red filter.)

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* HauntedHouse: About as haunted as aa house can get, with something spooky in practically every room.

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* HauntedHouse: About as haunted as aa a house can get, with something spooky in practically every room.


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* RaisingTheSteaks: One of the ghosts is a ''lion'', implied to have bitten the head off Shadrack the lion-tamer.
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: At the film’s end, Castle encourages anyone who still doesn’t believe in ghosts to take the viewer home and use it there...if they dare.
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* [[CombiningMecha Combining Ghosts]]: The four spirits in the laboratory merge into a spinning wheel of flames when Cyrus confronts them in the laboratory.

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* [[CombiningMecha Combining Ghosts]]: The four spirits in the laboratory merge into a spinning wheel of flames when Cyrus confronts them in the laboratory.encounters them.
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* ScreamingWoman: Not unexpected in a house full of ghosts.

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* ScreamingWoman: Not unexpected in a house full of ghosts. One of the laboratory spirits ''is'' this.



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%%* SpookySeance* SpookySeance: Cyrus is temporarily possessed by his late uncle's ghost during one, and speaks a warning.
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* [[CombiningMecha Combining Ghosts]]: The four spirits in the laboratory merge into a spinning wheel of flames when Cyrus confronts them in the laboratory.
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** The ghosts, themselves, are extremely varied in appearance and behavior.
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* AbsentMindedProfessor: Cyrus has these tendencies.

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* AbsentMindedProfessor: Cyrus is a professional paleontologist and has these tendencies.
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%%* EvilLaugh

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%%* EvilLaugh* EvilLaugh: Some of the ghosts have this.



%%* UsefulNotes/LosAngeles

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%%* UsefulNotes/LosAngeles* UsefulNotes/LosAngeles: Where the story is set.



%%* ScreamingWoman

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%%* ScreamingWoman* ScreamingWoman: Not unexpected in a house full of ghosts.
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%%* AbsentMindedProfessor: Cyrus.

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%%* * AbsentMindedProfessor: Cyrus.Cyrus has these tendencies.



%%* AmoralAttorney

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%%* AmoralAttorney* AmoralAttorney: [[spoiler: Ben, the entirely-human true villain of the story.]]



* BanisterSlide: Buck does this, [[spoiler: and unwittingly knocks some of the hidden money off onto the floor]].

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* BanisterSlide: Buck does this, this butt-first on the staircase, [[spoiler: and unwittingly knocks some of the hidden money off onto the floor]].



%%* CreepyHousekeeper: Elaine.

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%%* * CreepyHousekeeper: Elaine.Elaine, who worked with Zorba for years and knows a fair bit about the ghosts.



%%* JacobMarleyApparel

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%%* JacobMarleyApparel* JacobMarleyApparel: Two of the four ghosts in the laboratory.



%%* NuclearFamily

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%%* NuclearFamily* NuclearFamily: Father, mother, teenage daughter, grade-school son.



%%* ThirteenIsUnlucky
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%%* ThirteenIsUnlucky
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Especially if [[spoiler: karma ensures you'll ''be'' the thirteenth ghost in the place]].
* UnfinishedBusiness: Definitely true of [[spoiler: Zorba]], although unclear about the other ghosts.

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