The Frighteners 1996 123movies

Watch: The Frighteners 1996 123movies, Full Movie Online – After a car accident in which his wife, Debra, was killed and he was injured, Frank Bannister develops psychic abilities allowing him to see, hear, and communicate with ghosts. After losing his wife, he then gave up his job as an architect, letting his unfinished “dream house” sit incomplete for years, and put these skills to use by befriending a few ghosts and getting them to haunt houses in the area to drum up work for his ghostbusting business; Then Frank proceeds to “exorcise” the houses for a fee. But when he discovers that an entity resembling the Grim Reaper is killing people, marking numbers on their forehead beforehand, Frank tries to help the people whom the Reaper is after!.
Plot: Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his “special” gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 89,686
	67% | RottenTomatoes
	52/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1252 Popularity: 30.988 | TMDB

Reviews:

Has maybe not aged flawlessly, but it’s very silly and very involved in a good kind of way. Kind of feels like a spoof but I’m honestly not sure what of, so I think that it’s maybe just a light toned take on some pretty dark subject matter. It’s been about 20 years since I last watched The Frighteners and I think I could probably go about that long before I watch it again, but I still do think it’s worthwhile.

_Final rating:★★★ – I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._

When a man’s jawbone drops off it’s time to reassess the situation.

Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners is an odd blend of outright comedy and supernatural thriller, if able to get onside with that then there’s a whole lot to enjoy. Plot essential has Michael J. Fox as a psychic who really can see dead people, so much so in fact that he has befriended three ghosts and makes a living out of setting up hauntings and charging people to exorcise the spirits. However, things turn decidedly deadly when he encounters a grim reaper like spirit that is killing people and putting a number on their foreheads. It seems there is a serial killing spirit on the loose.

Frank Bannister (Fox) is grieving from the death of his wife and he has become a conman, this is an interesting characterisation for Fox to play and he does so with relish. Initially the pic is all about the comedy, with Bannister’s interactions with the three ghosts devilishly funny. Ok, the effects work now look a bit crude, but there’s a vibrancy on offer both visually and orally.

Come the second third the pic shifts into a serial killer investigation and the narrative gets dark. Oh there’s still fun in the mix, but Jackson and his team are toying with the very real facet of a celebrity serial killer (ebulliently played by Jake Busey). Trini Alvarado (what happened to her?) is playing what ends up as Bannister’s side-kick and love interest and the pair of them are thrust into a frantic final third of a life and death battle with Busey’s psychotic spirit Johnny Bartlett. Bartlett in turn is aided by mentally ill Patricia Bradley (horror icon Dee Wallace Stone), while an outrageously over the top Jeffrey Combs is in the mix as a damaged FBI agent intent on destroying bannister and all he stands for.

When you strip it down it’s a live action horror comedy cartoon, which when you look in context to Jackson’s early work is not surprising. It’s also not surprising that The Frighteners has become a cult movie of some standing. The bonkers plot, the close to the knuckle humour and choice narrative threads make it a fascinating viewing experience. 7.5/10

Indulgent But Impressive
This one has received mixed Reviews. It’s hard to imagine that anyone could be critical of the imagination that went into this entertaining, if overblown, Movie. It has enough energy and creativity for three Films. But it doesn’t know when to quit. It just goes on and on, almost, but not quite, draining the fresh flourishes from the Film.

There are Artistic touches that impress and it looks very much like the Cartoony Movies that Jackson had made up to this point. But this may have suffered from too much Zemeckis and too much Money. The Director never needed a lot of Money to make Cool, Off-Beat, and Artistically rewarding Stuff.

Just one example, in the opening Scene we see an Evil Entity haunting a Women and it is shown protruding from behind walls and carpets. It is different and diabolical. But it won’t be the last time this effect is used. Suffice to say that repetition is the bane of this really good Film.

There are Plots on top of Plots and not just in the Cemetery. It could be just a bit too much for some, and yet it is so charming that others may say, give me more.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min), 2 hr 3 min (123 min) (director’s cut) (USA)
Budget 30000000
Revenue 29359216
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Director Peter Jackson
Writer Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson
Actors Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson
Country New Zealand, United States
Awards 3 wins & 17 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, DTS-Stereo
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arriflex 35 BL-III, Arriflex 35 IIC
Laboratory Film Unit, Avalon, New Zealand (color)
Film Length 3,018 m (Sweden), 3,071 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman)
Cinematographic Process Super 35 (common-top)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)