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* WickedWitch: A witch is behind the curse. [[spoiler: She was a young girl when she cast the spell, but now looks like a proper witch in the present.]]
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* [[RoomFullOfCrazy Trunk Full Of Crazy]]: [[spoiler:Abigail has a trunk filled with photos of Sally with her face slashed out, a doll of Sally with her head partially decapitated, and the words "HATE", "PAIN" "BAD" written all over the place in black and red.]]

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* [[RoomFullOfCrazy Trunk Full Of Crazy]]: [[spoiler:Abigail has a trunk filled with photos and two newspapers of Sally with her face slashed out, a doll of Sally with her head partially decapitated, and the words "HATE", "PAIN" "BAD" written all over the place in black and red.]]
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* DeagedInDeath: After elderly Abby Gregory reconciles with the ghost of her sister Sally, who died as a child sixty years before, this allows Abby to rejoin her sister as a child, as she was in 1939, in the afterlife of the Tip-Top Club party they never reached when they were alive. Whether the reconciliation allowed Abby to pass on or she was DeadAllAlong remains an AmbiguousSituation.
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* MythologyGag: The film opens with a band playing "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)," one of the 1930s jazz songs that plays at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
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* HawaiianShirtedTourist: Chris "Q" Todd sports a tropically flower patterned button shirt.


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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While not believing Buzzy about the ghosts, Jill at least do some background check about Abigail.

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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Doing the math, this film is set in 1999.



* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Abigail de-ages into a kid and disappears with Sally, presumably into the afterlife, despite not being dead. Was it a byproduct of the magic spell, or was Abigail a ghost all along?]]

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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Abigail de-ages into a kid and disappears with Sally, presumably into the afterlife, despite not being dead. Was it a byproduct of the magic spell, or was Abigail a ghost all along?]] along? Also counts as a RiddleForTheAges.]]

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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Abigail de-ages into a kid and disappears with Sally, presumably into the afterlife, despite not being dead. Was it is a biproduct of the magic spell, or was Abigail a ghost all along?]]

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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: Abigail de-ages into a kid and disappears with Sally, presumably into the afterlife, despite not being dead. Was it is a biproduct byproduct of the magic spell, or was Abigail a ghost all along?]]



* ChildMage: [[spoiler:Abigail, back in 1939 with the Book of Souls]]

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* ChildMage: [[spoiler:Abigail, back in 1939 with the Book of Souls]]Souls.]]



* CoupDeGrace: [[spoiler: What Abigail hopes to accomplish. Tired of being haunted by her sister's memory and her ghost after killing her in 1939, she attempts a more potent spell that will send the elevator crashing down instead, wiping Sally out completely and sending her into Hell. Its fortunately thwarted in time.]]
* CutLexLuthorACheck: [[spoiler: Abigail's motivation is even more ridiculous when its revealed she's a magical prodigy who is extremely good with magic, which is arguably far greater potential than a stage starlet. I guess she wanted the attention.]]

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* CoupDeGrace: [[spoiler: What Abigail hopes to accomplish. Tired of being haunted by her sister's memory and her ghost after killing her in 1939, she attempts a more potent spell that will send the elevator crashing down instead, wiping Sally out completely and sending her into Hell. Its It's fortunately thwarted in time.]]
* CutLexLuthorACheck: [[spoiler: Abigail's motivation is even more ridiculous when its it's revealed she's a magical prodigy who is extremely good with magic, which is arguably far greater potential than a stage starlet. I guess It seems she just wanted the attention.]]



* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Buzzy gets his job and Jill back, Q inherits and reopens the hotel and the ghosts are free, but only after going through hell and barely escaping death, solving the mystery.]]

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Buzzy gets his job and Jill back, Q inherits and reopens the hotel and the ghosts are free, but only after going through hell and hell, barely escaping death, and solving the mystery.]]



* HappilyEverAfter: Hey, even at its scariest, Disney is Disney. Sally and [[spoiler: Abigail]] reconcile their relationship and break the curse of the Hotel, The Lost guests arrive at the party at the Tip-Top Club for Halloween and [[spoiler: Abigail's birthday party]], Buzzy ressurrects his career and rekindles his relationship with Jill, Gilbert is finally able to propose to Carolyn on-stage, Q solves the mystery of his grandfather Dewey's disappearance and becomes the Hollywood Tower Hotel owner, and the Hotel itself, finally free of the curse, re-opens for business.

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* HappilyEverAfter: Hey, even at its scariest, Disney is Disney. Sally and [[spoiler: Abigail]] reconcile their relationship and break the curse of the Hotel, The Lost guests arrive at the party at the Tip-Top Club for Halloween and [[spoiler: Abigail's birthday party]], Buzzy ressurrects resurrects his career and rekindles his relationship with Jill, Gilbert is finally able to propose to Carolyn on-stage, Q solves the mystery of his grandfather Dewey's disappearance and becomes the Hollywood Tower Hotel owner, and the Hotel itself, finally free of the curse, re-opens for business.



* MiscarriageOfJustice: How Buzzy was fired from the newspaper company, they blamed him for the fake photographs of the mayor taking bribes from a mob. In realty, it was some other guy who made the photographs up.

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* MiscarriageOfJustice: How Buzzy was fired from the newspaper company, company; they blamed him for the fake photographs video of the mayor taking bribes from a mob. the Mob. In realty, reality, it was some other guy who made doctored the photographs up.video.



* NoodleIncident: Buzzy alludes to a past date that he and Jill went on, where she tried to free some lobsters from a restaurant.

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* NoodleIncident: Buzzy alludes to a past date that he and Jill went on, where [[FreeTheFrogs she tried to free some lobsters from a restaurant.restaurant]].



* ObliviousToHatred: Sally truly loved her sister [[spoiler: Abigail, who couldn't stand her]]. But being a child, [[spoiler: Sally wasn't aware Abby was plotting to kill her]]. When Sally finds out the truth, its awkward and it takes a little bit for them to reconcile.

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* ObliviousToHatred: Sally truly loved her sister [[spoiler: Abigail, who couldn't stand her]]. But being a child, [[spoiler: Sally wasn't aware Abby was plotting to kill her]]. When Sally finds out the truth, its it's awkward and it takes a little bit for them to reconcile.



* OnOneCondition: According to Q, Dewey Todd's father, the owner of the hotel, closed the Hollywood Towers down after his son's disappearance. According to Mr. Todd's will, the hotel can only be reopened if Dewey's fate is be revealed. [[spoiler: After the curse is broken and Buzzy prints the story, this is considered good enough for the estate and the hotel resumes business.]]

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* OnOneCondition: According to Q, Dewey Todd's father, the owner of the hotel, closed the Hollywood Towers down after his son's disappearance. According to Mr. Todd's will, the hotel can only be reopened if Dewey's fate is be revealed. [[spoiler: After the curse is broken and Buzzy prints the story, this is considered good enough for the estate and the hotel resumes business.]]



* StupidEvil: [[spoiler: When its revealed that the party in 1939 was all for Abigail's birthday and Sally was going to attend. Abigail sabotaged her own birthday party and killed her sister for basically nothing.]]

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* StupidEvil: [[spoiler: When its it's revealed that the party in 1939 was all for Abigail's birthday and Sally was going to attend. Abigail sabotaged her own birthday party and killed her sister for basically nothing.]]


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* SympatheticMagic: The focus for the original spell was a lock of Sally's hair. However, because there were other people on the elevator with her and no personal items from them were included in the casting, this is why the passengers are trapped in limbo between life and death rather than sent to an eternity of torture in Hell as the caster intended. In the caster's defense, she didn't expect other people to get on the elevator with Sally. [[spoiler:And she was also just a child at the time.]] As a result, such items must be located in the present day, to help break the spell [[spoiler:or as it actually turns out, to recast it the right way this time]].
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She claims that Emeline Partridge (Wendy Worthington), the nanny of child actress Sally Shine (Lindsay Ridgeway), was responsible for the horrible event, which put a curse on the hotel, trapping their spirits there. She begs him to go into the hotel and collect some items she needs to break the curse. Along with his niece Anna (Creator/KirstenDunst) and the inheritor of the hotel, Chris "Q" Todd (Michael [=McShane=]), Buzzy ventures into the hotel and is surprised at what he finds.

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She claims that Emeline Partridge (Wendy Worthington), the nanny of child actress Sally Shine (Lindsay Ridgeway), was responsible for the horrible event, which put a curse on the hotel, trapping their spirits there. She begs him to go into the hotel and collect some items she needs to break the curse. Along with his niece Anna (Creator/KirstenDunst) and the inheritor of the hotel, Chris "Q" Todd (Michael [=McShane=]), (Creator/MikeMcShane), Buzzy ventures into the hotel and is surprised at what he finds.

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