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Poltergay

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Poltergay is a 2006 French supernatural comedy directed by Éric Lavaine.Marc (Clovis Cornillac) and Emma (Julie Depardieu) are a married couple who inherit a house that's uninhabited for nearly 30 years. What they don't know is that the house's basement was once a gay nightclub, L'Ambigu. An explosion destroyed the club in 1979 in the middle of a foam party, and five partygoers perished. The five men still haunt the house as ghosts, and the only way they know how: as party animals. Only Marc can see them, and the visions he has progressively drive Emma to leave him, thinking he's crazy.
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Jacob Marley Apparel
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Jacob Marley Apparel: The five ghosts wear what they had on when the day they died, including one who has a watch that's forever stuck on the hour of the explosion.
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Chippendales Dancers
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Marc and the five ghosts go to a gay café and a gay nightclub with Chippendales Dancers in Paris in the third act.
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Gayborhood
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Gayborhood: Marc brings the five ghosts to the district of Le Marais in Paris, where gay businesses abound.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Gay singer Dave (As Himself) goes at Marc's nightclub at the end, and it turns out he can see the ghosts, somehow.
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Unequal Pairing
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Unequal Pairing: Marc is a construction worker, Emma is an archaeologist.
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Coitus Uninterruptus
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Coitus Uninterruptus: By the end, Marc has sex with Emma without caring that the five ghosts are watching.
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Fish out of Temporal Water
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Fish out of Temporal Water: For nearly 30 years, the five ghosts have been trapped in the house, not knowing how time had past. Until they watched the TV and magazines that Marc brought in 2006, trying to catch up.
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The Atoner
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The Atoner: The five ghosts realize their mischievous antics have ruined Marc's life by driving Emma away, and they spend the final act of the film helping Marc win her heart back.
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Life of the Party
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Life of the Party: The five ghosts were party animals who brutally died in 1979, and they have been partying as ghosts for the following 27 years.
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Mistaken for Gay
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Mistaken for Gay: The way Marc tells his therapist how he regularly sees men at the house and the fact that he's a construction worker (a very masculine field) prompts the therapist to think he's a repressed homosexual. Marc himself almost thinks he's that afterwards for a while, until an encounter with a gay man who loves "converting" straight men definitely convinces him that he's straight.
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Hiding Behind the Language Barrier
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Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: Emma's Italian archaeologist colleague has the hots for her and tells the bartender of their hotel (while she's there with him at the bar, not understanding Italian) that she'll end up in his bed if her husband doesn't pick up the phone.
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Friendly Ghost
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Friendly Ghost: The five ghosts are spirits of party animals who got trapped in the house where their living selves perished in 1979. They can be quite mischievous, but at some point they realize how their wacky antics have damaged the life of Marc, and they set out to help him win his wife's heart back and befriend him. Gilles is the nicest of the five ghosts overall, including towards Marc, and he makes it clear to the latter that he's not into the others' mischievous pranks.
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I See Dead People
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I See Dead People: Only Marc can see the five ghosts (at first). Which makes everyone think he's crazy.
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Spirit Advisor
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Spirit Advisor: When Marc has dinner with Emma to win her heart back, Jean-Guy (who can't be seen by Emma) sits by his side to tell him what to do and what to say to her.
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Our Ghosts Are Different
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Our Ghosts Are Different: The five ghosts are trapped for decades in the house because of the presence of four stones put in the foundations by The Knights Templar (who were accused of homosexuality in The Middle Ages). The site became cursed when the Knights Templar got purged in 1307, and the four stones became the limits of a perimeter trapping spirits within itself. The four stones have to be moved so the ghosts can move outside the house as well. A similar phenomenon happened in Pompeii as Emma found out.
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Gag Penis
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Gag Penis: The five ghosts like to draw a stylized penis with wings in various places, which annoys Marc.
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Eating the Eye Candy
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Eating the Eye Candy: One of the gay ghosts looks at Marc's butt and lets a Wolf Whistle out. Then, when Marc takes a shower, one of them can't resist using Marc's own Polaroid camera to take a picture of his naked butt. Later, two of them watch Marc having sex with Emma and compliment him on his butt and muscles.
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Mistaken for Insane
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Mistaken for Insane: Due to Marc's reactions to the five ghosts that only he can see, Emma increasingly thinks he's insane.
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Babies Ever After
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Babies Ever After: Emma is pregnant from Marc at the end.
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Soapbox Sadie
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Soapbox Sadie: Michel is the most overtly politicized of the five ghosts. He won't hesitate to call someone "fascist" for perceived homophobia and to him, heterosexuality is nothing but a bourgeois social construct to be demolished.
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Camp Gay
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Camp Gay: Four out of the five gay ghosts have various degrees of effeminate manners and the expected '70s outfits to go with it. Ivan is practically a Crossdresser.
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Closet Gay
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Closet Gay: Any man who can't see the ghosts has had gay sex at least once in his life, including people Marc thought were straight such as his Best Friend.
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Honking Arriving Car
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Honking Arriving Car: Marc's friend David honks "La Cucaracha" when his truck arrives at the house.
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Straight Gay
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Straight Gay: Michel (the one who wears a black leather jacket) is the least effeminate of the five gay ghosts, even calling the others "pédés" ("fags") as an Insult of Endearment.
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Ghostwriter
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Ghostwriter: Literally and figuratively. One of the ghosts, Jean-Guy, is quite literate and secretly improves the letter Marc sends to Emma in order to win her heart back, with some beautiful Jean Cocteau verses.
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Shovel Strike
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Shovel Strike: When Marc belives Emma's father to be an intruder, he attacks him with a shovel.
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Paranormal Investigation
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Paranormal Investigation: After finding out that the five men he sees are ghosts, Marc calls De Sorgue, a paranormal specialist.
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The Peeping Tom
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The Peeping Tom: The five ghosts like to spy on Marc when he's naked in the shower or when he has sex with Emma.
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History with Celebrity
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History with Celebrity: When he was alive in The '70s, Michel had an affair with Bertrand Delanoë, the Real Life gay mayor of Paris between 2001 and 2014.
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Open-Minded Parent
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Open-Minded Parent: When Marc tells his Italian grandmother that he thinks he might be homosexual or bisexual, she's not your expected super-Catholic nonna and instead tells him she thought he didn't like her tiramisu dessert, and that she in fact had an affair with a woman when she was younger, which she fondly recalls. Her husband, on the other hand, is a bit more embarrassed by all of this.
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Where Everybody Knows Your Flame
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Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: The house's basement was a gay nightclub called L'Ambigu ("The Ambiguous") in The '70s. Marc goes to a gay nightclub after being told to "assume" what's perceived as repressed queerness in him by his therapist. Marc and the five ghosts go to a gay café and a gay nightclub with Chippendales Dancers in Paris in the third act. Marc and Emma reopen a nightclub where L'Ambigu once stood, and again most of the customer base is gay.
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Invisible to Normals
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Invisible to Normals: It turns out only straight men who have never had gay sex can see the five gay ghosts.
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Ghostly Goals
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Ghostly Goals: The five ghosts have to wait for over 700 years till they can go to Heaven.
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Cover Version
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Subverted with Julie Depardieu's Cover Version of "Born to Be Alive" at the end. The song is originally disco but this cover is not.
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Elvis Impersonator
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Elvis Impersonator: The ghost Jean-Guy "Salopette" wears a white late '70s Elvis-like suit.
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Must Have Nicotine
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Must Have Nicotine: Marc promised Emma to stop smoking, but still makes himself cigarettes and smokes them when she's not there.
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Affectionate Nickname: When he was alive, Jean-Guy was nicknamed "Salopette" and he nicknamed his lover "Nounoune".
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Interrupted Intimacy
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Interrupted Intimacy: The five ghosts spying on Marc even as he has intimate moments with Emma disturb him in such moments at the beginning.
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Convenient Photograph: It turns out the five ghosts can be filmed or photographed, which is how Emma learns the truth about them (she thought Marc was crazy before and realizes he was not). She uses a camera to see them afterwards.
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TheSeventies
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The house's basement was a gay nightclub called L'Ambigu ("The Ambiguous") in The '70s.
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Silly Spook
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Silly Spook: The five ghosts have been partying in the house for 27 years and those with Camp Gay mannerisms still affect them. The worst they do is playing pranks on Marc and teasing him.
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Product Placement
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Product Placement: De Sorgue (the paranormal specialist) is fond of McDonald's meals. He even asks Marc's friend to go seek him a McFlurry.
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Trunk Shot
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Trunk Shot: One at the beginning when Emma's father opens his car's trunk.
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Haunted House
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Haunted House: The house has been uninhabited for 30 years, except by the five ghosts.
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Intangibility
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Intangibility: The ghosts can become intangible at will, like going through walls or physical objects. They can also interact with physical objects without trouble.
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Happy Ending
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Happy Ending: At the end, Marc and Emma are back together and decide to reopen a nightclub in the house's basement, and call it "Pompeii" (since Emma is an archaeologist working on the namesake site). Emma even manages to find gay ghosts from Ancient Rome to keep company to the five French ghosts so they won't be alone waiting for 700 years to go to Heaven. And Jean-Guy and his (now older) lover are reunited.
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