School Spirit

School Spirit (1985)

This is one ghost who should be busted

The only thing keeping Billy Batson from the girl of his dreams is one little condom—or rather the lack of one. Lucky Billy finds one at an all-night roadhouse—but speeding back to his girl, he is killed in a head-on collision. Now invisible, Billy must find his sweetheart and rekindle her fire.

Date of release
1985-10-30
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (48)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Alan Holleb

Casting

Interesting facts

School Spirit is a 1985 American supernatural sex comedy film directed by Alan Holleb, and starring Tom Nolan, Roberta Collins, and Larry Linville. It follows a college student who is killed in a car accident and returns as a ghost to haunt his school.

Production

The film was based on an idea of Geoffrey Bare called College Ghost about a campus Casanova who comes back as a ghost to help a nerd get laid. He pitched it unsuccessfully, but director Allan Holleb felt it had possibilities. They adjusted the script and ended up selling it to Roger Corman, who had worked with Holleb on Candy Stripe Nurses. Corman agreed to help make the film.

Holleb says one of his inspirations was the Italian film Il Sorpasso (1962).

Some of the finance came from a consortium of Indian doctors. It had been arranged by Ashok Amritraj, who became a successful producer.

Scenes at college were filmed at a veterans' hospital in Brentwood.

The special effects were done in the style of old Topper movies due to the low budget.

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