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Director Neil Jordan has always maintained that the release version of this film is very different from the one he shot. He was more or less excluded from the editing process of the final cut. He insists that his version is still locked away in a vault.See more »

Continuity: When the flying banshee smashes into Sharon and Jack's bathroom window Sharon has a white face mask on but when she goes down stairs her mask is gone.See more »

Martin Brogan :Tonight's the one night I turn to flesh so. what d'ya say to a wee bit o' skelpin', eh? Come on. At least tell me your name.
[He vanishes under the sheet ]
Sharon :[She lifts up the sheet and sees his naked body ] Wow!
Martin Brogan :Oh, really? I've got the best bahookies from here to Ballinderry. Come on, what do you say? Let's give it a twirl, eh?
Sharon :[She drops the sheet and continues filing her nails ] Drop dead.
Martin Brogan :Ooooh, God, what a woman.
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5 out of 7 people found the following review useful.

Everything is improbable, and also non-stop laughs!. 13 June 2001

When family patriarch Peter Plunket is notified that the American who holds the mortgage on his family castle is going to foreclose to move it to America as part of a theme park, he desperately decides to try this himself by advertising that the castle is haunted. The rich mortgage holder sends his daughter and son-in-law (who's relationship is strained anyway) to investigate this claim, and determine his chances of successfully paying the mortgage. After attempts to fake hauntings fail miserably, it turns out there really are ghosts, and they aren't happy! Peter O'Toole should have gotten an Oscar as Peter Plunket, and the supporting cast includes some top performers.

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