: Ghosts like Muriel are essentially employees "assigned" to properties to ensure they remain vacant. Their "haunting" is a job performance metric.
In the 2020 film , the narrative revolves around an unconventional relationship between a handyman named Jack and a "spectral agent" named Muriel . The film's standout "feature" is its portrayal of the afterlife as a mundane, corporate-style bureaucracy. The Corporate Afterlife Feature A Ghost Waits
Director Adam Stovall utilized several stylistic features to reinforce this unique premise: : Ghosts like Muriel are essentially employees "assigned"
: When Muriel struggles to remove Jack, the bureaucracy sends in a "reinforcement" ghost named Rosie . Rosie represents the "modern" haunting style—snappier and more aggressively terrifying—contrasting with Muriel's more "classic" or traditional methods. A Ghost Waits