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| Michael Keaton's poltergeist, ticking off his resume in Tim Burton's 1988 howler ``Beetlejuice,'' proof that manic humor fits nicely in haunted houses. The same unconcerned mixture of different types of lore can be found in Hogwarts, a castle housing, together with witches and wizards, ghosts, a basilisk, pixies, werewolves and a poltergeist. When today's audiences see such goings-on in the film Beloved, after so many poltergeist movies, they seem hackneyed and even funny" (113). |
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