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Haunted (1988)

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })David Ash, after the death of his sister, has spent his entire life trying to disprove the existence of ghosts. He is invited to spend some time with the Mariell family to comfort their panicking nanny. With her declining health, she seems convinced that the ghost of the adult siblings' dead mother is haunting the Manor.As David investigates he starts to come across happenings that go against everything he believes in and things start getting strange and he can't keep blaming it on practical jokes for long... while being overly suspicious of the siblings, Christina, Simon and Robert, he finds himself quickly drawn to Christina which Robert doesn't seem very fond of.A book by James Herbert, it was adapted into a film in 1995 directed by Lewis Gilbert starring Aidan Quinn and Kate Beckinsale. Major plot points were changed between the novel and the film; reading the book doesn't spoil the film, and vice versa. The key element is the same but the backstory is incredibly different.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Not to be confused with another book of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk
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Adaptation Expansion: Arguable but the major plot points of the story are incredibly different between the film and the novel, giving different twists and stories. For example, in the novel Christina turns out to be schizophrenic and burnt down the house whereas in the film Nanny Tess found the siblings together in their parents' bed having sex and drinking alcohol and burnt them all alive in the basement.
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Adaptation Personality Change: Juliet is out for revenge on David in the novel but saves him and forgives him in the film.
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Agent Scully: David Ash, to an extent where he manages to dissuade himself of his own psychic buoyancy. His determination to expose ghosts as natural phenomena and fakery seems driven by his guilt over the drowning of his older sister Juliet, and fear that she may return to haunt him.
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