Ghosts can be frightening or simply light and transparent, such as those of this Richard Bates Jr. movie
"Suburban Gothic" is a politically incorrect horror comedy that is not scary and that wink to the teenagers, those closest to the twenty. If we speak about goals to achieve, the director, reach his own, because this light was exactly what he wanted to give to the public.
After his debut film "Exicision" of 2012 Bates ends in the oblivion into a kind of depression. To get out of it he decides to write another script, accompanying his days watching "Scooby-Doo", "Hard Boys" and "Are You Afraid of the Dark?” All series focused on horror/mystery and dedicated to the young.  With the clear idea of William Castle’s cinema in the head, he wrote a screenplay with Mark Bruner and calls starring his friend Matthew Gray Gubler ( "Criminal Minds"), Ray Wise, Kat Dennings and can boast the presence of another his great friend: John Waters.
And from all these things, inspirations for first, born a comedy horror that has as its central figure a sociopath guy and bullied who talks with ghosts. College language, but no sex (they talks a lot about sex but we didn’t see any sex scene) and few ghosts.
The result in some ways it's nice. Bates show a good direction and can rely on a good cinematography and on the convincing performance of the protagonists. Matthew Gray Gubler is credible (but not original) as the sociopath  boy, while Ray Wise in the father's role says many bad and politically incorrect jokes dirty as possible for his character that represents the satire against the “holy American family".

The comic moments and banter follow one after another, citing blowjobs, pregnancies, stories go bad and bad luck. The entire collection of speeches good for a College that slow down the story that takes off after many minutes. A final certainly not shocking closes a film that must be, to be appreciated, categorized well. As said, not a horror, not an independent horror film, but a light episode of horror /comedy. That can be appreciated.
Bates tells the story of Raymond who despite having received MBA can’t find a work and is forced to return home to his parents. He's a strange guy, that citizenship remember him gladly ( "a fat guy, a fat guy a fat guy" they say) with his parents, especially his father, who fear his schizophrenia, as the guy says he can talks with the ghosts.
While some work in the soil of the parental home, a worker finds an 1800 coffin and steals a necklace kept in there. The thing of course triggers supernatural events and the only one who can make it through its Raymond helped by the dark bartender Becca.
The resolution of this "case" is not difficult, and the main characters apart from some grim vision have a life all in all easy.