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The Worst Film Ever

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The Frighteners has a fun story with interesting characters and excellent performances, but it seems sloppy and thrown together at times. The scary moments work well, but the humor falls flat. Still, it's enjoyable to watch.

Fun movie which, as another reviewer commented, seems like it's out of the 80s when it was actually made in the mid-90s, although, for me personally, that is not a bad thing, since I enjoy a lot of stuff from 80s. This movie is a light action/comedy/horror mix and it plays very well with decent acting, production values and special effects. The unusual and pretty unpredictable story keeps moving, and I liked that the horror was not extreme, unlike so much that is produced today. (True horror fans aren't even going to acknowledge this movie as horror, but it's not far short of as much as I myself want to experience.) Whereas I can't really imagine watching this movie at a theater, since it really doesn't have that blockbuster vibe, it is perfect for a slow night at home on a big screen TV with popcorn and a coke.

There is a rash of heart attack deaths in Fairwater. The town is still haunted by a psychiatric hospital orderly Johnny Bartlett who killed 12 people 32 years earlier. Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) is a psychic investigator. Ever since being in a car accident which killed his wife, he has developed psychic abilities. He has befriended some ghosts who haunt houses allowing him to perform exorcisms at a nice profit. Lucy Lynskey (Trini Alvarado) is the new doctor in town. She treats Patricia Ann Bradley (Dee Wallace) but her mother won't let her leave the house. She was the underage girlfriend-conspirator of Johnny Bartlett. Lucy's husband is a boorish brute who got into a fight with Bannister. Bannister sets his ghost friends on the Lynskeys. During the exorcism, Bannister notices a ghostly number marked on Ray Lynskey's forehead. Soon Ray is dead from a heart attack.There is an annoying factor about this movie. It's trying so hard to be weird and funny. The fact is Peter Jackson is not good at writing comedies. Michael J. Fox had never been one of those broad comedic actors anyways. He's a little jittery and playing a slightly annoying character. The ghosts are too aggressively ugly and really aggressively annoying. Ray is definitely annoying. There are a lot of annoying things going on in this movie. I can appreciate Peter Jackson's attempt here. The CGI is quite advanced. The wild ghostly ways are done with quite a specific vision. It's an interesting idea but not that funny and really unappealing.

Wow, I can not believe that I have never seen this movie in full before.I had seen pits of here and there now and again.I love this movies It one the most fussiest horror movies of all timeI loved the p'ot the movie as it started of the word go,This was a really fun movie to watch and it was not scary at all , I don't think it wanted to be!I could not stop laughing at what some of the ghost were doing One think did bug me in this movie was , that some ghost ending going though thinks but some ghost can land on a car and not go though As i was wacthing this time flew as it was really fast pace and the acting was really good of the whole castAnd the effects for ghost were really done well