The Frighteners
 

I recently re-watched The Frighteners (on the fantastic Director's Cut DVD with almost an almost 4 hour long making-of documentary) and I couldn't help but really enjoy it this time around. I think the first half of the movie is an alright CGI-goofball comedy but by the last hour, it veers into a dark and demented horror flick that works on many levels.

I don't think The Frighteners had its due, technology and quality-wise, when it was first released. Peter Jackson sure knows how to make some fun flicks.

I havent seen any special features, but i remember seeing it when it came out on video and wondering how it didnt do better.I LOVED it.

i loved it....i still got it on vhs.....i am now a peter jackson fan.....someone who can do that and heavenly creatures and braindead is fine by me

The Frighteners is a favorite of mine.

Great flick.:D

how could people not like it....a melanie lynskey cameo in it too

http://www.nndb.com/people/922/000043793/melanie.jpg

My all-time favourite movie, bar NONE.

I just bought the Director's Cut last week. Haven't watched this one with the bonus features yet but I really loved it when it first came out.

I saw it a couple of times a long time ago and never got into it, I'll see it again sometime on latenight tv perhaps.

This is one of those films that makes me crazy.

The elements are all there...comedy, horror, cool fx, an interesting premise... but this one never really clicked with me.

I'm gonna have to lay this one at the feet of the actors. MJ Fox is so likable and benign that you never believe that he Could have killed his own wife (like the townsfolk think)

And Jake Busey plays the whole movie like a cartoon character - and it sort of takes me out of the film.

Don't get me wrong, I like it, but don't love it.

Gotta agree with you on MJF... I could walk in on him slashing someone to pieces and probably wouldnt buy it...

Can somebody tell me how the lift was supposed to work in that
old abandoned ..mental hospital when there was 'ahem'.........
NO FUCKEN POWER!!!

but you are cool with a ghost crushing people's hearts and Michael J Fox seeing the dead? ;)

among my oldest friends i'm notorious for bad predictions (such as: "madonna will be a one-hit wonder - opps). one of my big bad predictions came after seeing the Frighteners that "this will be bigger than ghostbusters". damn, i suck!

If guys pick up the Director's Cut DVD, definitely watch the commentary. Even though he's talking to himself, it's really one of the best out there. Peter Jackson is just an all around awesome guy.

whatever happened to her?
 

Whatever happened to Trini Alvarado (The Frighteners)? And how come Trini Alvarado is a girl, while Trini Lopez (singer, "Lemon Tree") is a guy?

Looking at Trini Alvarado's face was the only thing I enjoyed about Frighteners. I really didn't like it. I didn't think it was funny, so that's pretty much it, cause besides nice looking FX, it was extremely cliché. I'm almost always bored or annoyed with the wacky runaround town films.

That guy from REANIMATOR. Jeffrey Coombs? He was HILARIOUS in it.

like many
 

Like many child stars, Trini Alvaredo wasn't as good as an adult.

I'll bet it was a blast for Dee Wallace to act in, because she must have been sick of always playing good girls.

I really really like the film, but im a huge fan of both Fox and Jeffrey Coombs. I wasnt suprised to hear that at one point this was possibly going to be a Tales from the Crypt film, it really feels like one to me.

One of my fave things is the bloopers theres parts where Fox forgets what film he is in and starts shouting ''DOC''

Despite there being some dark dark stuff in it the film feels very very like a introduce the kids to real horror sort of thing.