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Actually I think there's a lot of themes. I don't think there is one great message to the movie, but it touches and satirizes a lot of things.

One is clash of class... you have the nice small town middle class couple's home taken over by rich out of towners with Lydia's weirdness and youth being the link between the class divide.

But ultimately it's a zany story about a sweet couple that dies and then struggle as ghosts to scare away the annoying yuppies that buy their home, only to find their big city cynicism won't allow them to be scared... so they hire a real ghoul to do the dirty work, and it backfires when the degenerate ghoul turns out to be untrustworthy and a sex pest which requires they work together to save Lydia from his clutches.