Poltergay (2006)
Directed by Eric Lavaine

Comedy / Fantasy / Horror

Film Synopsis

Marc and Emma are the epitome of young love, and they can hardly wait to set up home in their new house.  What they don't know is that their house has a dark secret.  In the 1970s, the cellar served as a gay night club and one fatal evening five men died in tragic circumstances.  Not long after moving into the house, Marc is disturbed by the ghosts of the five disco dancing gay men.   Emma in unable to see these apparitions and becomes perturbed by her partner's increasingly erratic behaviour.  A psychoanalyst diagnoses Marc's visions as the product of latent homosexual tendencies.  When Emma leaves him, the five gay ghosts decide to come to Marc's rescue...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Eric Lavaine
  • Script: Héctor Cabello Reyes (story), Eric Lavaine
  • Cinematographer: Vincent Mathias
  • Music: Grégory Louis, The Supermen Lovers
  • Cast: Clovis Cornillac (Marc Modena), Julie Depardieu (Emma), Lionel Abelanski (Salopette), Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus (Bertrand), Jean-Michel Lahmi (Gilles), Philippe Duquesne (Michel), Georges Gay (Ivan), Alain Fromager (David), Anne Caillon (Valérie), Michel Duchaussoy (Professeur de Sorgues), Christian Pereira (Monsieur Chevalier - Le père d'Emma), Héctor Cabello Reyes (Le psy), Christophe Guybet (Le dragueur), Gérard Loussine (Flic 1), Stéphan Wojtowicz (Flic 2), Thierry Heckendorn (M. Tranier), Pierre-Jean Chabert (Garçon Bar Gay), Bertrand Vinson (Franck), Stefano Cassetti (Vittorio), Marie Redot (Femme Flic)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French / Latin / Italian
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 93 min

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