Mostly Ghostly (film)
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Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out? is a 2008 horror
-fantasy film
includes comedy
flavored. That is based on the book series
created y R.L. Stine of Goosebumps
fame. It was released on September 30, 2008 on DVD.
The film was shown on the Disney Channel
that year as part of their "Wiz-Tober Celebration". The movie features appearances by Sterling Beaumon
, Ali Lohan, Madison Pettis
, Luke Benward
, Brian Stepanek
, David DeLuise
, Adam Hicks
, Kim Rhodes
, Sabrina Bryan
and, Noah Cyrus
.
) is an 11-year-old whose love of performing magic disappoints his father (David DeLuise
) and draws ridicule from his older brother, Colin (Adam Hicks
). While doing laundry in the basement, Max hears voices. While investigating the source of the sound, he sees a hand come out of the wall. A hidden tunnel behind the wall happens to harbor the evil Phears (Brian Stepanek
) and his cadre of ghosts. Phears is intent on freeing himself and his minions from the world of ghosts to inhabit the physical world, but will only be able to do so the day of Halloween
.
Later, Max finds the ghosts of two children, Nicky (Luke Benward
) and Tara Roland (Madison Pettis
), have suddenly come to occupy his room. They explain that they need his help in learning who they are, how they came to be ghosts, and what has happened to their parents. Although they cannot be seen by anyone but Max, they are able to interact with objects in the physical world. This allows them to frighten a boy who has been bullying Max at school. Shortly thereafter, Tara and Nicky learn it was Phears who killed their parents and now holds the ghosts of their parents captive. During rehearsal of Max's magic show, Tara is captured by Phears.
Max tells Nicky about it and suggests Nicky throw him into the basement tunnel to find her. The same way people can't see ghosts, ghosts can't see Max. He retrieves a box from Tara that contains a ring to defeat the evil ghosts, but Phears prevents her from escaping with him. Traci (Ali Lohan), a girl Max has been crushing on, becomes his assistant for his magic show. They perform with the help of Nicky moving objects around, making it appears Max is actually moving them with his magic. On Halloween
, Phears finally breaks the tunnel wall and crashes the show.
There, Max chants the spell 'From the light of earth the dark descends, should they return that all depends, when hands point up to moonlit skies, on 10-31 the darkness dies.' and Phears minions are sent back to the depths of the earth but Phears himself escapes in the form of a roach without anyone seeing him.
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
-fantasy film
Fantasy film
Fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered to be distinct from science fiction film and horror film, although the genres do overlap...
includes comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
flavored. That is based on the book series
Mostly Ghostly
For the 2008 movie, see Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out?.Mostly Ghostly is a book of series written by children's horror author R. L. Stine...
created y R.L. Stine of Goosebumps
Goosebumps
Goosebumps is a series of children's horror fiction novels written by American author R. L. Stine and first published by Scholastic Publishing. It is a collection of stories that feature semi-homogenous plot structures, with fictional children being involved in scary situations...
fame. It was released on September 30, 2008 on DVD.
The film was shown on the Disney Channel
Disney Channel
Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...
that year as part of their "Wiz-Tober Celebration". The movie features appearances by Sterling Beaumon
Sterling Beaumon
Sterling Martin Beaumon, born June 2, 1995, is an American teen actor and singer. He is best known for his lead roles as Max Doyle in the 2008 film Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out? and as young Benjamin Linus in the ABC television series, Lost...
, Ali Lohan, Madison Pettis
Madison Pettis
Madison Michelle Pettis is an American teen actress, best known for playing Sophie Martinez on the Disney Channel sitcom Cory in the House and as Peyton Kelly in the 2007 film The Game Plan.-Life and career:...
, Luke Benward
Luke Benward
Luke Aaron Benward is an American teen actor and singer, best known for his starring role as Billy Forrester in How to Eat Fried Worms and as Charlie Tuttle in the 2008 Disney Channel Original Movie, Minutemen. He also played the role of "Nicky" in Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out? and...
, Brian Stepanek
Brian Stepanek
Brian Stepanek is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Arwin Hawkhauser in the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody...
, David DeLuise
David DeLuise
David Dominick DeLuise is an American actor and director.-Career:DeLuise was born in 1971 in Los Angeles, California. He is the youngest son of actor and comedian Dom DeLuise and actress Carol Arthur , and the brother of actor, writer, director Peter DeLuise and actor Michael DeLuise.His first...
, Adam Hicks
Adam Hicks
Adam Paul Neilson Hicks is an American actor. His first leading role was in How to Eat Fried Worms. He is most notable for playing Luther in the Disney XD series Zeke and Luther and starring in the Disney Channel Original Movie Lemonade Mouth as Wendell "Wen" Gifford...
, Kim Rhodes
Kim Rhodes
Kimberly "Kim" Rhodes is an American actress, who portrayed the role of "Cindy Harrison" on two different soap opera series, Another World and As the World Turns, as well as Carey Martin in the Disney Channel sitcom The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and The Suite Life on Deck, where she played the...
, Sabrina Bryan
Sabrina Bryan
Reba Sabrina Hinojos , better known by her stage name Sabrina Bryan,is an American singer, actress, author, songwriter, fashion designer, choreographer, dancer, and television personality best known as a member of the girl group, The Cheetah Girls, and for starring in the Disney Channel Original...
and, Noah Cyrus
Noah Cyrus
Noah Lindsey Cyrus is an American child actress. Noah Cyrus followed the footsteps of older sister Miley Cyrus also an actress, and landed her first job portraying Gracie Herbert in television series Doc at age three...
.
Plot
Max Doyle (Sterling BeaumonSterling Beaumon
Sterling Martin Beaumon, born June 2, 1995, is an American teen actor and singer. He is best known for his lead roles as Max Doyle in the 2008 film Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out? and as young Benjamin Linus in the ABC television series, Lost...
) is an 11-year-old whose love of performing magic disappoints his father (David DeLuise
David DeLuise
David Dominick DeLuise is an American actor and director.-Career:DeLuise was born in 1971 in Los Angeles, California. He is the youngest son of actor and comedian Dom DeLuise and actress Carol Arthur , and the brother of actor, writer, director Peter DeLuise and actor Michael DeLuise.His first...
) and draws ridicule from his older brother, Colin (Adam Hicks
Adam Hicks
Adam Paul Neilson Hicks is an American actor. His first leading role was in How to Eat Fried Worms. He is most notable for playing Luther in the Disney XD series Zeke and Luther and starring in the Disney Channel Original Movie Lemonade Mouth as Wendell "Wen" Gifford...
). While doing laundry in the basement, Max hears voices. While investigating the source of the sound, he sees a hand come out of the wall. A hidden tunnel behind the wall happens to harbor the evil Phears (Brian Stepanek
Brian Stepanek
Brian Stepanek is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Arwin Hawkhauser in the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody...
) and his cadre of ghosts. Phears is intent on freeing himself and his minions from the world of ghosts to inhabit the physical world, but will only be able to do so the day of Halloween
Halloween
Hallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...
.
Later, Max finds the ghosts of two children, Nicky (Luke Benward
Luke Benward
Luke Aaron Benward is an American teen actor and singer, best known for his starring role as Billy Forrester in How to Eat Fried Worms and as Charlie Tuttle in the 2008 Disney Channel Original Movie, Minutemen. He also played the role of "Nicky" in Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out? and...
) and Tara Roland (Madison Pettis
Madison Pettis
Madison Michelle Pettis is an American teen actress, best known for playing Sophie Martinez on the Disney Channel sitcom Cory in the House and as Peyton Kelly in the 2007 film The Game Plan.-Life and career:...
), have suddenly come to occupy his room. They explain that they need his help in learning who they are, how they came to be ghosts, and what has happened to their parents. Although they cannot be seen by anyone but Max, they are able to interact with objects in the physical world. This allows them to frighten a boy who has been bullying Max at school. Shortly thereafter, Tara and Nicky learn it was Phears who killed their parents and now holds the ghosts of their parents captive. During rehearsal of Max's magic show, Tara is captured by Phears.
Max tells Nicky about it and suggests Nicky throw him into the basement tunnel to find her. The same way people can't see ghosts, ghosts can't see Max. He retrieves a box from Tara that contains a ring to defeat the evil ghosts, but Phears prevents her from escaping with him. Traci (Ali Lohan), a girl Max has been crushing on, becomes his assistant for his magic show. They perform with the help of Nicky moving objects around, making it appears Max is actually moving them with his magic. On Halloween
Halloween
Hallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...
, Phears finally breaks the tunnel wall and crashes the show.
There, Max chants the spell 'From the light of earth the dark descends, should they return that all depends, when hands point up to moonlit skies, on 10-31 the darkness dies.' and Phears minions are sent back to the depths of the earth but Phears himself escapes in the form of a roach without anyone seeing him.
Cast
- Sterling BeaumonSterling BeaumonSterling Martin Beaumon, born June 2, 1995, is an American teen actor and singer. He is best known for his lead roles as Max Doyle in the 2008 film Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out? and as young Benjamin Linus in the ABC television series, Lost...
as Max Doyle - An eleven-year-old boy who is forced to keep Nicky and Tara away from their enemy, Phears. Max is the only one that can see them, for some reason. Max loves magic and insulting his older brother Colin. - Madison PettisMadison PettisMadison Michelle Pettis is an American teen actress, best known for playing Sophie Martinez on the Disney Channel sitcom Cory in the House and as Peyton Kelly in the 2007 film The Game Plan.-Life and career:...
as Tara Roland - A nine-year-old girl ghost who likes Max more than her brother, Nicky. She is the youngest. She lived in the house Max lives before the Doyles moved in. She can get Nicky to do something Max asks them to do but Nicky is unwilling to do by giving him the 'Mom Look'. - Luke BenwardLuke BenwardLuke Aaron Benward is an American teen actor and singer, best known for his starring role as Billy Forrester in How to Eat Fried Worms and as Charlie Tuttle in the 2008 Disney Channel Original Movie, Minutemen. He also played the role of "Nicky" in Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out? and...
as Nicolas" Nicky "Roland - Tara's eleven-and-a-half-year-old older brother who sometimes takes a dislike to Max. He lived in the house Max now lives in and likes to prank Max and sometimes his family. - Brian StepanekBrian StepanekBrian Stepanek is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Arwin Hawkhauser in the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody...
as Phears - An evil ghost who is after Nicky and Tara after taking their parents. Phears threatens Max several times throughout the movie. - Ali Lohan as Traci Walker - A popular girl at Max's school who he has a crush on. Traci spends too much time texting instead of studying.
- David DeLuiseDavid DeLuiseDavid Dominick DeLuise is an American actor and director.-Career:DeLuise was born in 1971 in Los Angeles, California. He is the youngest son of actor and comedian Dom DeLuise and actress Carol Arthur , and the brother of actor, writer, director Peter DeLuise and actor Michael DeLuise.His first...
as John Doyle - Max's father who wants Max to be into sports like Colin instead of magic. - Kim RhodesKim RhodesKimberly "Kim" Rhodes is an American actress, who portrayed the role of "Cindy Harrison" on two different soap opera series, Another World and As the World Turns, as well as Carey Martin in the Disney Channel sitcom The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and The Suite Life on Deck, where she played the...
as Harriett Doyle - Max's caring and loving mother. - Adam HicksAdam HicksAdam Paul Neilson Hicks is an American actor. His first leading role was in How to Eat Fried Worms. He is most notable for playing Luther in the Disney XD series Zeke and Luther and starring in the Disney Channel Original Movie Lemonade Mouth as Wendell "Wen" Gifford...
as Colin Doyle - Max's obnoxious older brother. - Sabrina BryanSabrina BryanReba Sabrina Hinojos , better known by her stage name Sabrina Bryan,is an American singer, actress, author, songwriter, fashion designer, choreographer, dancer, and television personality best known as a member of the girl group, The Cheetah Girls, and for starring in the Disney Channel Original...
as Mrs. Murray - A teacher at Max's school who is focused on helping Max. - Travis T. FloryTravis T. FloryTravis T. Flory is an American actor, who is best known for his role as Joey Caruso on Everybody Hates Chris...
as Billy - A bully who loves to pick on Max and is terrorized by Tara and Nicky Roland. - Noah CyrusNoah CyrusNoah Lindsey Cyrus is an American child actress. Noah Cyrus followed the footsteps of older sister Miley Cyrus also an actress, and landed her first job portraying Gracie Herbert in television series Doc at age three...
as trick or treater- A random trick or treater out in the streets.