Ghost Graduation

Ghost Graduation

Year: 2012

Runtime: 88 mins

Language: Spanish

Director: Javier Ruiz Caldera

ComedyFantasy

A teacher with paranormal abilities helps a group of ghosts graduate high school.

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Timeline & Setting – Ghost Graduation (2012)

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Time period

Late 1980s and present day

The story shifts between a high school dance in 1987, where a ghost is revealed, and the present day when Modesto struggles to distinguish ghosts from the living. In the past, a fire set to force detention involved the five students, shaping their unfinished business. In the present, Modesto’s ongoing encounters with the spectral students drive the action as the school tries to survive the haunting.

Location

Monforte

Monforte is home to a prestigious school that has become a house of horrors due to five deceased students haunting its halls. The living teachers and Principal Tina must confront the ghosts and keep the school from shutting down. Founder's Day and the school’s corridors, classrooms, and rituals become the battleground where the living and the afterlife collide.

🏫 School 👻 Supernatural

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Main Characters – Ghost Graduation (2012)

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Modesto (Raúl Arévalo)

A teacher who sees dead people, whose career and sanity are tested by decades of ghostly interference. He must navigate being fired from multiple schools while balancing therapy and his own fragile sense of reality as he tries to help the five student ghosts graduate.

👨‍🏫 Teacher 👻 Ghosts 🧠 Mental Health

Elsa (Aura Garrido)

A living student who communicates with Jorge using Ouija boards and becomes entangled with the afterlife. She shows a desire to join Jorge in the afterlife and the Founder's Day events culminate in a dangerous pool incident.

💬 Communication 🌊 Danger 👧 Living Student

Tina (Alexandra Jiménez)

Principal who hires Modesto after witnessing his abilities and must face the consequences of the haunting at the school as leadership is tested.

🏫 School 👩‍⚖️ Leadership 🕊️ Authority

Dani (Àlex Maruny)

The rebellious student who can possess people and who started the 1987 fire to remove detention, facing guilt about his actions and their impact in the afterlife.

🎭 Rebellion 👻 Possession 🔥 Fire

Mariví (Andrea Duro)

One of the five student ghosts whose relationships and letters (like Mariví’s) influence the haunting; her presence marks the passage of time within the afterlife.

💞 Relationships ⏳ Time 👻 Ghosts

Ángela (Anna Castillo)

A student who ascends after being allowed to join the choir, symbolizing potential realized beyond the constraints of life.

🎶 Choir 🕊️ Ascension 🎭 Drama

Jorge (Jaime Olías)

A living student who engages with Elsa through Ouija boards and computers, exploring friendship and the lure of the afterlife.

🗨️ Communication 🤝 Friendship 🧭 Afterlife

Pinfloy (Javier Bódalo)

A deceased student and Pink Floyd fan who experiences a final wish journey and a lingering hangover before ascending with the others.

🎶 Music 👻 Ghosts 🪐 Afterlife

Dead Psychiatrist (Luis Varela)

The ghost of Modesto’s therapist who anchors the narrative by linking Modesto’s perceptions of ghosts to past therapy sessions.

🧠 Therapy 👻 Ghosts 🩺 Mental Health

Alive Psychiatrist (Joaquín Reyes)

A living psychiatrist who provides clinical contrast to the ghostly experiences and the therapeutic backdrop of Modesto’s life.

🧠 Psychiatry 💬 Dialogue 🧭 Perspective

Education Counselor (Elena Irureta)

A school counselor who interacts with Modesto as the haunting tests staff and student well-being.

🎓 Counseling 🧭 Guidance 🧠 Mental Health

Director instituto (José María Sacristán)

The school director who navigates administration and crisis management as the haunting unfolds.

🏫 Administration 🗂️ Policy 🕯️ Leadership

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Major Themes – Ghost Graduation (2012)

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👻 Ghosts and unfinished business

Five deceased students haunt the school until their pending issues are resolved. Modesto works to help them finish their exams so they can pass on, but graduation does not immediately resolve their presence. The haunting persists, revealing the complexity of what it means to move on.

🎓 Redemption and graduation

The students’ need to complete their education frames a path to closure. Even after they pass their exams, their relationship with the living remains tense, showing that graduation is a milestone rather than an endpoint. The living staff seek a final resolution that allows the school to move forward.

🧠 Mental health and perception

Modesto’s gift to see the dead and his therapy history shape how others interpret his experiences. The story highlights how mislabeling or misunderstanding mental health issues can color a person’s reality. The ghosts force a confrontation between superstition and psychology within the school.

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