Comedy, Family, Fantasy |
Despite Jonas's justified skepticism, dad Kronkel insists to hold the teenagers's birthday party, using second hand Christmas-decorations, in the count's castle for sale, however run-down. Ghost Philomena van Zurenborg predicts disaster when she hears her 'vervaldag' (Durch for 'lapse day'; a spirit's death anniversary), when she must relive her gruesome end, coincides with a mortal birthday. Dad also expects another client, industrialist Van Boechout, but only his snooty spoiled daughter Bianca turns up, who is even less impressed then Jonas -none of his friends came- the star of which is the cheap bumbling 'magician' Clandestino, whose tricks would all fail if the ghosts didn't help a bit. Nevertheless Jonas, who dad hoped in vain to charm fellow teenager Biaca, is fascinated by Clandestino's girl-assistant Aagje 'Agora', but the showstopper in an unrehearsed Chinese sawing box disaster, for which the manual gets mixed-up while the ghosts chase pestering fairies accidentally released from a bottle mistaken for 1,000 years old Jerusalem wine...
Comedy, Family, Fantasy |
Despite Jonas's justified skepticism, dad Kronkel insists to hold the teenagers's birthday party, using second hand Christmas-decorations, in the count's castle for sale, however run-down. Ghost Philomena van Zurenborg predicts disaster when she hears her 'vervaldag' (Durch for 'lapse day'; a spirit's death anniversary), when she must relive her gruesome end, coincides with a mortal birthday. Dad also expects another client, industrialist Van Boechout, but only his snooty spoiled daughter Bianca turns up, who is even less impressed then Jonas -none of his friends came- the star of which is the cheap bumbling 'magician' Clandestino, whose tricks would all fail if the ghosts didn't help a bit. Nevertheless Jonas, who dad hoped in vain to charm fellow teenager Biaca, is fascinated by Clandestino's girl-assistant Aagje 'Agora', but the showstopper in an unrehearsed Chinese sawing box disaster, for which the manual gets mixed-up while the ghosts chase pestering fairies accidentally released from a bottle mistaken for 1,000 years old Jerusalem wine...