The Scream Team

📅 آخر تحديث: ٢ أغسطس ٢٠٢٦
✍️ نُشر في: ٢ أغسطس ٢٠٢٦
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The Scream Team is a 2002 American comedyhorrortelevision film directed by Stuart Gillard from a story by Robert Short and Dan Berendsen, who also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Mark Rendall, Kat Dennings, Robert Bockstael, Eric Idle, Tommy Davidson, and Kathy Najimy and premiered on October 4, 2002, on Disney Channel as part of the network's series of original movies.

Plot

Two children, Ian and Claire, move into a town where their grandfather has just died. Ian thinks his grandfather's spirit is trying to tell them something, finding some library news clippings about a man named Zachariah Kull, who was accused of burning his home with his wife in it. Later, Ian and Claire capture a ghost named Jumper (a dead skydiver) who ends up freed by his partner, Coffin Ed (a Revolutionary soldier). They follow them and other ghostly wisps of air into the forest, where they find an abandoned building. Entering, they find arriving ghosts entering a mirror, which leads to the afterlife. Ed and Jumper's boss, Mariah (a dead bride) isn't too pleased with this. Ian and Claire learn that they look for souls that don't want to cross over, and are dubbed the "Soul Patrol" by Jumper; they ended up with these jobs while waiting for their turn to cross over.

In exchange for letting their grandfather complete anything he wants finished before moving on, the children discover that Zachariah has kidnapped him to increase his powers. The children join forces with the Soul Patrol, to destroy Zachariah and release all the captured souls. They confront Zachariah at an abandoned mine, where Mariah is able to parry his fireballs, but finds he's gained new powers; Jumper ends up captured, further increasing Zachariah's strength. In the end they discover Zachariah was really a misunderstood inventor experimenting with natural gas, and one of his inventions accidentally burned his wife to death. When he was killed, Zachariah told his wife to wait for him, knowing he wouldn't be able to cross over due to desiring revenge against his injustice. At the festival that honors the villain everyone thinks him to be, Zachariah emerges from a burning effigy. However, Claire and Ian reveal the truth, reminding Zachariah that his wife is still waiting for him to cross over. Zachariah releases all of the trapped spirits and finally moves on.

يعود الأطفال ووالدهم إلى المنزل ليجدوا روح الجد بانتظارهم؛ فقد أوفت دورية الأرواح بوعدها بالسماح له بإنجاز ما لم يُنهِه. يُفصح الجد عن مدى فخره بابنه، وهو أمر لم يفعله قط في حياته؛ وعندما سُئل إن كان عليه الرحيل فورًا، أجاب الجد قائلًا: "يمكن للأبدية أن تنتظر قليلًا"، ويقضي بعض الوقت في الحديث مع ابنه قبل أن يرحل. تُقرر العائلة البقاء في المدينة، التي بدأت تتغير من مهاجمة الشبح الشرير سابقًا إلى كشف الحقيقة عنه.

خلال النهار، يزور إيان وكلير دورية الأرواح، فلا يجدان سوى جامبر وإد، اللذين يشرحان أن ماريا تتحدث مع رؤسائهم في العالم الآخر. تعود ماريا، موضحةً أن المشهد الصغير الذي أحدثوه لإنهاء رعب زكريا كشف حقيقة وجود حياة أخرى بعد الموت؛ تشعر ماريا بالألم الشديد لأنها كانت على وشك إنهاء عملها لديهم، والعقاب هو تمديد وظائف ماريا وجامبر وكوفين إد. يزورهم إد بينما ينحتون القرع باختراع جدهم، متجنبين الإصابة بالحطام بفضل كونهم أشباحًا - "هناك بعض المزايا للموت".

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