Ghost Team One

Profane, randy, oversexed, and wonderfully juvenile.

It’s not the derivative scares and rudimentary effects that keep this low-budget effort percolating but the improvisational energy of Mr. Santos and Mr. Villarreal, whose ease, chemistry and humor never flag.

Ghost Team One may be the scariest picture this Halloween season, demonstrating that material so blatantly offensive can still be acquired by a major studio, and released mostly without comment.

An aggressively obnoxious tone undermines a decent concept and appealing cast.

Thanks to the shakiest of shaky-cams, you don't know whether to wince or lose your lunch.

The makers of this high-concept comedy lack the courage of their gross-out convictions. Being loud, and tasteless can also be funny, but if all you've got to offer is bad racial humor, and dopey sex jokes, then you are the F@4k-You Man Eddie Murphy jokes about in "Raw," the guy who cluelessly tries to make people laugh by cursing a lot. Ghost Team One also panders to viewers, and does a lousy job of it, too.

It's frustrating that the filmmakers could only think to enrich the characters of one race by demeaning those of another.