Ghost Fever

Ghost Fever

Year: 1987

Runtime: 93 mins

Language: English

Directors: Alan Smithee, Lee Madden

ComedyHorror

Sherman Hemsley plays a hard‑headed city detective determined to capture a group of mischievous ghosts. When two officers are dispatched on a routine eviction‑notice delivery, they find themselves tangled in supernatural chaos, turning a simple job into a bizarre, ghost‑filled ordeal.

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Timeline & Setting – Ghost Fever (1987)

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Time period

Location

Historic plantation, Greendale County, Georgia

Greendale County's historic plantation forms the central setting, a sprawling estate with a storied past. The mansion houses a hidden laboratory from the era of enslaved people, hinting at brutal experiments. The plantation’s haunted atmosphere drives much of the supernatural action and the residents’ connection to the land.

🌿 Georgia plantation 🏚️ Historic site 👻 Haunted location

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Main Characters – Ghost Fever (1987)

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Linda (Deborah Benson)

Linda is one of the two sisters linked to the plantation. She reveals that she and her sister have been dead for years and remain tied to their home, guiding the living through the estate’s dangers. Her connection to the land underscores the blending of history and haunting that drives the plot.

👻 Ghost 🏠 Plantation tie 🌙 Haunted history

Lisa (Diana Brookes)

Lisa is Linda's sister and another long-vanished resident who confirms the house’s spectral links. She helps explain the plantation's past and stands as part of the ghostly chorus guarding the estate. Her presence deepens the sense that the land's memory cannot be easily erased.

👻 Ghost 🏠 Plantation tie 🌙 Haunted history

Buford

Buford is a Georgia police officer tasked with serving eviction notices on the plantation. He uncovers a hidden laboratory and faces escalating supernatural events as the past asserts itself. He is killed in a car crash orchestrated by the spirits, joining the afterlife alongside Benny.

🕵️ Police 🧭 Investigation

Jethro

Jethro is a ghostly figure, a former slave who haunts the plantation alongside Andrew Lee. Though his presence is tied to the land’s history of oppression, he allies with the living to protect the estate and oppose the malevolent forces at play.

👻 Ghost 🗝️ Legacy

Andrew Lee

Andrew Lee is the former owner of the plantation and a ghost who remembers the brutal history of the property. He, along with Jethro, acts to defend the land from new violence and to stop the current foreclosures from erasing the estate’s legacy.

👻 Ghost 🗝️ Legacy

Benny

Benny is Buford’s partner, a police officer who joins the fight to save the plantation. He participates in the boxing match that provides the crucial prize money and is ultimately killed in the road accident, joining the afterlife with Buford and the other guardians of the estate.

🕵️ Police 🥊 Boxer

Madame St. Esprit

Madame St. Esprit is the spiritual medium called to conduct a séance. She channels supernatural forces, triggering a powerful confrontation that reveals the extent of the ghostly danger and the need for cooperation between the living and the dead.

🧿 Medium 🔮 Seance

Terrible Tucker

Terrible Tucker is a famed boxer who appears in the plantation’s boxing match. His presence anchors the film’s climactic sport-driven sequence, where prize money becomes the instrument to save the estate.

🥊 Boxer 🏁 Championship

Terrible Tucker's Manager

The manager handles the boxing career of Terrible Tucker, orchestrating moves around the match and contributing to the dramatic payoff that funds the plantation’s rescue.

🎩 Manager

Terrible Tucker's Trainer

Terrible Tucker's trainer coaches the fighter through the key bout, guiding him toward victory that facilitates the plantation’s financial salvation.

🏋️‍ Trainer

Ring Announcer

The ring announcer introduces the climactic boxing event, setting the pace for the match that becomes a turning point in the plot.

🎤 Announcer

Referee

The referee ensures the boxing match adheres to the rules, providing the formal structure around the sport-based resolution of the story.

⚖️ Referee

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Major Themes – Ghost Fever (1987)

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👻 Supernatural

The story centers on a haunted plantation and restless spirits who influence the living. Ghosts Andrew Lee and Jethro interact with the eviction and foreclosure plot, complicating human plans with otherworldly forces. Séances and spectral events reveal that not all threats are mortal, and the living must reckon with the past.

🗝️ Heritage

The plantation’s history of slavery and exploitation permeates the present, embodied by the ghosts and the hidden laboratory. The past is not distant; it actively interferes with contemporary attempts to take the land. Preserving the estate becomes a fight to honor the land’s true history rather than erase it.

🏆 Redemption

Resolution comes through unlikely alliances between the living and the dead. Benny’s boxing victory, aided by the spirits, provides the funds to save the plantation, symbolizing a reclamation of community and home. The ending frames redemption as a communal effort rather than a solitary victory, even as tragedy unfolds.

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