THE
FRIGHTENERS
With Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Jeffrey Combs, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Dee Wallace, R. Lee Ermey, Jake Busey Directed by Peter Jackson After his hilariously gory Bad Taste and Braindead (aka Dead Alive), New Zealand director Peter Jackson made a more accessible movie called Heavenly Creatures. The Frighteners is his first Hollywood effort and was produced by Robert Zemeckis. This was one of Michael J. Fox's last big roles before he retired due to his illness. Here we see him as a guy who gains the power to communicate with the dead after a car crash. He capitalizes on this by using some of his dead "buddies" in haunting scams, exorcising these ghosts from homes for a fee. But he becomes the only hope of his town terrorized by the ghost of a killer who has punched through the boundary of the living and the dead, continuing his murderous rampage in the real world. A very well made trip of humour and horror. PS. Of course we all know what Jackson went on to direct - a little series called The Lord Of the Rings. 5 / B - PB 1 2 3 4 5 6 A - B - C |
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