Pjtaylor-96-138044 'The Frighteners (1996)' balances its comedic and horrific elements well, with the picture getting surprisingly dark towards its final act and the mystery that propels its plot forward being a rather interesting and occasionally enigmatic one. There's a number of moments where the CGI doesn't hold up so well, but for the most part the piece still looks remarkably good. It also helps that the world is a uniquely off-kilter one filled with odd-ball characters that are a joy to watch. Michael J. Fox gives his best performance outside of his iconic 'Marty McFly' role, with a turn that's incredibly unique and wholly believable. The infrequent, almost slapstick inspired gory moments add a gritty and darkly funny punch to the flick, too. It does sometimes seem to get a bit too dark for its own good, likely a result of the numerous clashes with the MPAA that resulted in Jackson stopping aiming for the 'PG-13' and going straight for the 'R', but becomes a more distinct and compelling picture for it. 7/10

begob Overblown and noisy, but a clever comedy ghost story with a serial killer element.The cast plays it well, with Fox nice and laid back, and the direction keeps the pace and plot bubbling over. One flaw I guess is that the scary reaper is defeated and replaced with a lesser menace well before the final conflict - I'd reserve the best till last. Also the FBI guy is a bit of a plot convenience.The effects are very good, but one thing that annoyed me is almost every minute is filled with dramatic music. I suppose it was the last fling for '80s cheese so no way to avoid it.Overall it's a bit long and busy, but amusing and entertaining all the same.

atinder 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

OlivieLo A movie that Robert Zemeckis proves that he finds Michael J Fox very correct.without Michael J Fox playing Frank Bannister, my friends and I would not even have any interest to watch Frighteners.Now even our throne rush team call "Frighteners" see how much I love this movie. yes it's true. my throne rush facebook game team is called this movie. Maybe to some people who admire Johnny Depp, they think that Johnny Depp would be able to play a better frank Bannister than Fox. but to we MJF fans, MJF is better. even Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise (I am a Tom Cruise fan) can not even have what MJF influenced people on this movie. everyone would hope their idols inside this movie. me too. My idols are Tom Cruise and Michael J Fox, but since Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman divorced I throw tom Cruise away. *talk back to MJF as it's Michael's movie*Yes I would speak that, you love Johnny Depp, just like how we love MJF, of course everyone would want every movie contain their favorite actor. Mentioning/remembering the times this movie was displayed in cinemas, NOT MANY PEOPLE were in cinemas. because MJF popularity was still weak (not really influenced enough in Hong Kong) around hong Kong. only back to the future that played in 1995 in TVB or ATV in Hongkong, then no more. that time people do not watch much English films. we only watch how funny and how the story goes, we don't even notice which actors play BTTF Marty mcfly, but Marty Mcfly is very remarkable in hongkong, we don't know that he is Michael J Fox. When Frighteners comes to Hongkong, my mom Sandra Ng. (facebook URL BingNg7, I am facebook URL Olivie.lo) and I went cinema watching frighteners, we were really delighted that not many people were watching. because the screen was clear enough to watch the whole movie, unlike pulp fiction times that a lot of people sitting in cinemas covering the screen bottom part, maybe you may think bottom part does not cover a lot of things, but some subtitles (we read Chinese subtitles when watching English movies) are covered. I don't have good English that time . that was why I am happy when frighteners was so outstanding and NOT MANY PEOPLE, I repeat, NOT MANY PEOPLE in cinemas. NOT MANY PEOPLE in cinemas as if this movie is junk/crappy/rubbish. but they were stupid, this movie is very remarkable, no wonder this movie is called "being highly-underrated". yes it's true, seriously underrated. people were stupid that they lost an opportunity to watch such a great movie. HOW STUPID. I am not being mean but those who had not watched this movie in cinemas must now be regretting when they watch this movie's DVD HAHA