Hysterical (1983)

Hysterical was one of a bunch of horror spoofs made in the early 1980's and to be fair to it not many of these films were actually any good. Some have gained a kind of cult status over the years and are remembered with great affection but taken on their own merits few if any of them could actually be considered to be good films. So Hysterical has good company... If you'll excuse the use of the word "good". The film revolves around an author who writes sordid novels but who is tired of the popularity of the work of which he is secretly ashamed. He decides to moves away and take on a new life in order to write The Great American novel... He finds himself taking up residence in a lighthouse on the edge of a small fishing town unaware that a woman's ghost inhabits it. The ghost raises the long dead body of her lover to wreck havoc on the town in revenge for her own death many years before.