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8	-> ''"The farmer killed three students and threw himself in the lake. Exactly one year later he returned to Hellestad."''
9	--> ''"What? Whasn't he dead?"''
10	-> ''"Oh yes he was dead. He was a strandvaskare"''
11	--> ''"A what?"''
12	-> ''"A drowning ghost"''
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14	After directing the academy award nominated film ''Ondskan'' (''Film/{{Evil\|2003}}''), Swedish director Creator/MikaelHafstrom was able to finance an old script he had written with his friend Vasa that had been rejected by the Swedish Film Institute. Although far from the first Swedish slasher film, it was the first with a large budget. The result was ''Drowning Ghost'' or ''Strandvaskaren'' as it is called in Sweden. A "strandvaskare" is in Swedish folklore the ghost of a drowned man, bound to haunt the place where he drowned.
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16	Hundred years ago, three students at the Hellestads Boarding School were brutally slaughtered, the murderer drowned himself in a lake nearby and his body was never found. The story has become a legend for generations of students as well as a yearly festivity. Sara, a student, is writing an essay based on the legend and uncovers new facts from the event that will cast dark shadows on the family name of one of the school's main beneficiaries. On the night of the hundredth anniversary, the festivities go awry, students disappear and something dark and unknown is moving through the schools' corridors...
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19	!!''Drowning Ghost'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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21	%%* AcademicAlphaBitch: Amanda
22	%%* AdultsAreUseless
23	%%* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors
24	* ChaseScene: The climax is an extended chase sequence.
25	%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Peder Weine
26	%%* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler: Felix]]
27	%%* DrivenToSuicide: Rebecka
28	%%* DumbBlonde: Therese
29	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Måns is a major JerkAss but gets mad and wants to apologize when Ynge tries to rape Sara.
30	%%* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: Sara]]
31	%%* {{Jerkass}}: Måns
32	%%* {{Jerkass Victim}}s: Most of the people who are killed
33	* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler: At the end, Felix is implied to become the new Drowning Ghost]].
34	* MaskOfPower: Subverted since [[spoiler: Felix]] only wears the Drowning Ghost costume to hide his identity and frame [[spoiler: Leo]]. It is not for added terror bonus.
35	* MenacingStroll: We never see the killer run.
36	%%* NeverFoundTheBody

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