I love Michael J. Fox in the frighteners. It was suspensful, disturbing and hilarious at the appropriate times. The movie had a great premise and an interesting story. It was centered around Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) a man who's makes a living of the dead. His wife died 6 years earlier in a crash but, he survived. Frank is kind of paranormal detective, kinda. He has the ability to see ectoplasmic beings who still wander the earth and uses this to his advantage. They work for him haunting homes. He his town's eccentric and is treated as such by pretty much everyone, except the beautiful Lucy Lynskey (Trini Alvarado). Frank then starts seeing numbers etched in the foreheads of people. Frank must then figure what's going on and stop a phantom figure donning a sickle from kill these innocents. It was a real sleeper hit and was deserving of so much more than it got.
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I didn't like "The Frighteners" when it debuted, but that's probably because I was expecting more from R. Lee Ermey, whom I practically worshipped at that time.
A friend loaned me a videotape of it several months ago, though, and I was able to appreciate it a little more. Frankly, I don't see why there's such a big fuss about Peter Jackson directing it (for better or worse); there doesn't seem to be anything particularly "Jackson-esque" about the production.
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