ghoulish lessons

[Trekker4747]

To be fair if the House is at all able to be occupied after not being maintained for 20 years and it still has running water and electricity why try the box of food you just found? Especially if it has the present-day and not what that item would have had twenty years earlier.

I learned that police CB radios have a neural implant with them so one end of the conversation doesn't need to be audibly heard.

I also learned there's no reason at all to furnish your ludicrously large loft with anything more than a couch, a book shelf, and a table and some Ham Radio equipment.

And... was it me or did this couple live somewhere in the Northeast but also apparently made a trip to and from Denver a couple times in this movie?

Denver, Colorado.

Colorado, being half a continent away from New England.

Also, and this may come from lack of full knowledge on Ham Radio, but aren't Ham Radio operator call signs longer four characters our.... "hero" had?

[Thrifty]

They lived in Massachussets (which sucks, like every place), but didn't travel to Denver.  They spoke with some people in Denver over the Ham radio, discussing whether Kim Basinger or Kelly LeBrock was more popular in Denver.  So Denver was referenced, but never travelled to.

[Trekker4747]

But I could have sworn he was communicating with Denver and had mentioned the strange things happening there, maybe I need to watch it again and see if it's any more clear.

[Prince of Space 5049]

"WARNING" you're thinking too much on this one "WARNING"

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I learned that this movie is great. So great in fact, that it wouldn't be weird at all to pay $1,000 for a used copy.

For that price you'd think they could throw in the shipping for free!

I learned that splitting up and leaving defenseless women alone to fend for themselves is always, always, always the best option no matter what horrible thing has just occurred.

I learned that before cell phones people carried around massive ham radio rigs wherever they went. (I don't remember doing this myself, but it's in a movie so it must be true!)

Also that creepy hitchhikers that steal stuff and offer teenage girls partially eaten candy make great comic relief.

[Trekker4747]

I learned it's possible to steal money off people without having any meaningful contact with them at all.

[Thrifty]

I learned that even if a close friend or relative was recently killed in a clearly dangerous house, you will wander in there to check up on some weird drifter that you just met.

I learned that sometimes the city will hire people to watch over abandoned houses for some reason.

[Darth Geek]

I learned that desecrating the dead by taking a dead girl's creepy doll will cause a haunting. To solve said desecration, BURN THE LITTLE GIRL'S CORPSE WITH GASOLINE!

I learned that the corpse of a little girl angered and haunting a house will not age or decay at all over twenty years.

[schliedk]

I learned never to show my wife a movie featuring a demonic clown doll.

She claims it gave her nightmares about said doll killing our cat.

When I pointed out that she likes the TV show Supernatural, which is far scarier and more disgusting than anything featured in Ghosthouse, her response was: "But they're hot." A valid point, I suppose.

[CJones]

I learned never to show my wife a movie featuring a demonic clown doll.

She claims it gave her nightmares about said doll killing our cat.

After seeing Poltergeist numerous times as a child, I've built up a resistance to the inherent horrifying nature of clown dolls... Mostly.

And to be honest, I felt worse for the cat getting killed  than any of the people.

When I pointed out that she likes the TV show Supernatural, which is far scarier and more disgusting than anything featured in Ghosthouse, her response was: "But they're hot." A valid point, I suppose.

Supernatural has stuff worse than a girl being cut in half by a guillotine, or a woman having her throat graphically cut? Glad I don't watch that show. Normally I can't stand this sort of movie, but all the characters in this movie are so unbelievably stupid that it's hard to feel sorry for any of them.

[Darth Geek]

I learned that if the van is a rockin'...it must be ghosts.

[CJones]

I learned that when there's apparently been a localized 9.0 earthquake with a radius of a few meters, whose epicenter is directly underneath your RV, you should bother to clean up everything that fell out of the various cabinets, but you should not bother to move your RV from that spot. Not even a little.

[martsen79]

I learned that driving scenes. They show that people drive.

That line cracked me up for some reason. It went through my head every time that awful "theme" popped up again in my head.

Also, I learned I really need to get a horror movie cliche bingo card.

[CJones]

I learned that two girls and Brother of Jim Dalen are no match for an unconscious old guy whose hands are tied up. Ham Radio Guy leaves for TWO MINUTES, and they somehow let the axe murderer escape.

Of course, they don't show how he escaped.

[CJones]

I learned that the cop's name was Lieu Tenent. I'm not even kidding. Watch the credits.