The Frighteners
UK Release Date: 24 January 1997
Certification: 15
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Trini Alvarado, Jake Busey, Jeffery Comb, Peter Dobson, Michael J. Fox, Dee Wallace
Rating: 26%
Review:
To date, The Frighteners is the worst movie I have ever seen. I have no idea what an accomplished director like Peter Jackson was thinking of during the making of this horrific movie. I guess everyone has to start somewhere? [This was Peter Jackson's fifth movie as a director].
The performances in The Frighteners are terrible, other than the always likeable Michael J. Fox. I especially hated Dee Wallace in the role of Patricia Ann Bradley. Her character was annoying, over the top and morphs into a psycho out of absolutely nowhere. There was near to no character development and from around 20 minutes into the movie you could guess Patricia's role in the climax.
I would definitely not recommend this movie to anyone.
Certification: 15
Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Trini Alvarado, Jake Busey, Jeffery Comb, Peter Dobson, Michael J. Fox, Dee Wallace
Rating: 26%
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| Frighteningly bad. |
To date, The Frighteners is the worst movie I have ever seen. I have no idea what an accomplished director like Peter Jackson was thinking of during the making of this horrific movie. I guess everyone has to start somewhere? [This was Peter Jackson's fifth movie as a director].
The performances in The Frighteners are terrible, other than the always likeable Michael J. Fox. I especially hated Dee Wallace in the role of Patricia Ann Bradley. Her character was annoying, over the top and morphs into a psycho out of absolutely nowhere. There was near to no character development and from around 20 minutes into the movie you could guess Patricia's role in the climax.
The actions of Trini Alvarado's character (Dr. Lucy Lynskey) made little sense. She flipped from a grieving widow to being attracted to a new man within less than twenty four hours.
The plot in The Frighteners was atrocious. It centres on Frank Bannister (played by Michael J. Fox), a fake psychic, who after his wife dies in a car crash, can actually see dead people. Frank uses the ghosts to con people and help him earn money to build his dream house. But he encounters the Soul Collector, a Grim Reaper like figure, who is killing people for fun and it is up to Frank to try and stop him. It sounds like a good idea, it should be a good idea but no it was executed horribly, which is surprising because Peter Jackson enlisted the help of legendary director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Cast Away and Back to the Future). I expected better from The Frighteners.
Trying to think of positives about The Frighteners is incredibly difficult. As I have already said Michael J. Fox is likeable, but when is he not? Frank's ghost partners are all funny and did make me laugh a little. But most of the laughs were because this movie was so bad.
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