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  • noun A show that involves spooks (ghosts).
  • noun rare, derogatory An organisation or situation that involves spies.

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spook show

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • For a format that frequently flails about aimlessly, this CG spookshow is an adventurous, amiable attraction.

    Filmcritic.com Movie Reviews 2009

  • 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!

    San Francisco Bay Guardian: Top Stories 2009

  • 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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