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The Frighteners

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New Zealand, United States · 1996
Rated R · 1h 50m
Director Peter Jackson
Starring Michael J. Fox, Jeffrey Combs, Jake Busey, Chi McBride
Genre Comedy, Horror

After his wife's tragic death, former architect Frank Bannister gains the ability to see and communicate with ghosts. He makes friends with a few of the ghosts and runs cons with them. However, when a serial killer's ghost begins committing murders in his town, Frank will have to put his powers to good use.

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The A.V. Club by

An overlong, overstuffed mess with only sporadic moments of clarity and purpose.

50

Chicago Tribune by Gene Siskel

A dreary, needlessly violent and ugly comic thriller about a psychic hustler (Michael J. Fox) who gets more than he bargained for with his latest scam. Fox seems to be trying to get hip in the movies, and he's lost his way here.

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ReelViews by James Berardinelli

Following director Peter Jackson's powerful, true-life matricide tale, Heavenly Creatures, The Frighteners falls short of expectations by being just one of many in the long line of 1996 summer movies.

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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.

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Variety by Todd McCarthy

Story was originally conceived as an episode of Tales From the Crypt, and that is perhaps what it should have remained, as the thinness of the conceit shows throughout, painfully so in the first half.

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