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- noun A
show that involvesspooks (ghosts ). - noun rare, derogatory An organisation or situation that involves
spies .
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Examples
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Now, this is a good weird start (and not unlike another based-on-a-true-story spookshow, “The Mothman Prophecies”) but “The Fourth Kind” pushes things too far by incorporating all sorts of “actual” footage.
IN THE WORLD OF MOVIES: NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 5TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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Now, this is a good weird start (and not unlike another based-on-a-true-story spookshow, “The Mothman Prophecies”) but “The Fourth Kind” pushes things too far by incorporating all sorts of “actual” footage.
IN THE WORLD OF MOVIES: NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 5TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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Spirits from the other world... ghosts., whose death before the film begins gets this spookshow off to a... well, to a start.
"They go with the house." Arbogast 2009
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Richard Matheson was sufficiently impressed by the example of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House to try his hand at something like-minded, yet he turns Jackson's po-faced spookshow on its pretty little head at every turn.
The Mount Everest of Haunted Houses Arbogast 2009
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Topper to tails, THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD is remarkable for informing a lurid spookshow with a sly examination of male pattern alienation and insecurity.
31 Screams: Peter Cushing Arbogast 2008
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I had a similar conversation just the other day; as a lifelong, mostly-inured genre junkie I'm still amazed -- amazed, I say -- when I'm watching some innocuous spookshow among friends and someone all of a sudden squeals when a spider skitters into the triangular light onscreen.
April come she will Arbogast 2008
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For a format that frequently flails about aimlessly, this CG spookshow is an adventurous, amiable attraction.
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The night ends with an erotic take on the Thrillpeddlers patented spookshow which honestly provokes more laughs than shrieks (or moans), but hey, laughter is sexy too!
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This means willfully committing themselves to a quirky spookshow filled with clever scares and directed with flair by Don Coscarelli, yet I find it to be a trip worth taking.
RVABlogs 2009
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