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The Frighteners
Frank Panister is a masterful man in architecture. Frank may also be adept at exorcism, passing through himself as a person capable of exorcism. Frankly, Frank begins with a great mission when a demonic spirit emerges, where he is the only person who can prevent that evil spirit from killing all the living and the dead. Frank tries to stop that spirit that threatens the lives of everyone, and perhaps tries to spoil everything besides killing living.
10 January 1959, Wellington, New Zealand
16 February 1948, Missoula, Montana, USA
31 October 1961, Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand
17 August 1929, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
30 May 1964, Wellington, New Zealand
16 May 1977, New Plymouth, New Zealand
1965, New Zealand
29 January 1994, Wellington, New Zealand
24 March 1944, Emporia, Kansas, USA
23 September 1961, Chicago, Illinois, USA
13 May 1958, Saginaw, Michigan, USA
13 January 1959, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
1995, Wellington, New Zealand
30 March 1930, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
15 June 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA
July 14, 2003
An incredibly underrated scare-comedy from Peter Jackson that deserves a much wider audience.
March 18, 2003
Quirky Peter Jackson film that's half comedy and half horror/gore-fest. Mostly enjoyable results, although Fox a bit miscast.
March 07, 2003
Woulda been five stars, but the cop-out ending smacks of the test-screening process.
January 23, 2006
Despite being awful in almost every respect, The Frighteners does offer one small pleasure: R. Lee Ermey parodying his Full Metal Jacket drill sergeant character.
February 14, 2001
Fortunately director Jackson, at home with all kinds of excess, keeps everything spinning nicely, not even losing a step when the mood turns increasingly disturbing.
December 15, 2010
Violent, frenzied, foul-mouthed ghost comedy.
January 01, 2000
An object lesson in what to avoid when making the transition from low-budget films to studio productions.
January 26, 2006
At times the relentless special effects and tangled plotting veer towards visual and narrative overkill, but the final tonal swerve is shocking and effective.
December 04, 2003
It actually works up till its last few minutes.
May 20, 2003
The actors can't keep the film's mood from verging on hysteria as the story roams all over the map. "The Frighteners" has flitted everywhere, even to heaven and hell, before it's over.
January 01, 2000
A mess with sporadic flashes of creativity.
March 26, 2009
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.

