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Summary: Great DVD to show off a 16 Hz / 5.1, Subwoofer
Review: I am amazed I haven't heard more about this movie. If you have a good Subwoofer and solid doors in your room you will love this DVD. The story is entertaining and keeps you involved. The special effects are extremely well done but not over done. If your Sub won't go down to 16 Hz, you won't hear, or feel, all of the quality. Buy it, you will love the story, special effects and especially the sound. This is a DVD you will want to experience over and over, if you have a good 5.1 system and Sub.
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Summary: Finally, a horror film that is scary AND fun!!!
Review: Finally, Michael Fox gets away from his usual teeny-bopper films! The horror element is still here, but it doesn't get to the point where there is so much blood and gore that you get bored. It's funny and keeps you guessing till the end. Even if you are not into horror films, check this one out, you may be surprised!!!
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Summary: Hey read my opinion
Review: What I love about this movie is it border lines scary for the first hour but never quite gets there i have never scene a movie that was scarry one second then friendly this movie rules but i wish i has the hologran cover but i dont
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Summary: Peter Jackson makes another
Review: Peter Jackson makes another New Zealand thriller with The Frightners, the horror film that gets better and better as the film progresses. This movie is NOT for everyone, but if you appreciate a good script that goes anywhere it wants to go, you'll enjoy this one. What I like, is that it starts out as a comedy.and slowly delves into a horrow movie, that gets scarier and more thrilling as the film moves on. Unfortunatly, we have to spend about 40 minutes hearing jokes from ghosts that are just not funny (REALLY not funny). But if you get through that, you'll be taken to a magical world that will take your breathe away, with spirits and killers and just about anything imaginable. Dee Wallace Stone is memorable as the psycho who finally lets lose in a fabulous ending that will blow your mind.
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Summary: Worthy of it's five star rating!!
Review: Do not be deceived in thinking that it is a typical Micheal J. Fox movie. This is one of his best films yet. This film has everything in it: suspense, drama, horror, and humor. It keeps you guessing right up to the ending with twists and turns. It is one of those films that you never want to end.
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Summary: Lost Horror Gem That NEEDS To Be Discovered!
Review: This film was released in the crowded summer of 1996, so it's box office was stale. However, it was the best film to come out of that year! The special effects are what the studio tried to sale the film with, but it's true heart lies with Peter Jackson, and wife Fran Walsh's script. The acting is also spectacular. Michael J. Fox gives a new twist as a con man who can speak with the dead. He cons the townsfolk in believing they're houses are haunted with the help of three ghosts (John Astin, Chi McBride and Jim Fyfe). But his powers are put to the test when an evil spirit appears and starts murdering people. Fox must clear his name when the clues point to him. Great paced and some very fine film making. This movie was made during a period of eight months in Jackson's homeland of New Zealand, and his direction and the look of New Zealand really give this film a definite look. Well worth the look!
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Summary: it's a recent ghostbuster movie, but better!!!
Review: This as some great affects added to it to make it look the way it looks.The director makes every ghost look as real and life like as if to be really there. If you liked the Ghostbusters movie you will love this one. M.J. Fox does a great job in this movie. If you like suspense and surprise you will love this movie. You don't find out who the killer is and when you do theres another surprise. i highly recommened that who watch this movie as soon as possible because who will love it , like I have.!!!!
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Summary: Argghhh!
Review: The DVD version of this film sucks! I mean the picture and sound quality are brilliant. However, the laserdisc version had the following: Audio commentary by director Peter Jackson
"The Making of The Frighteners", an original 4½-hour documentary on the making of the movie, written, directed and produced by 'Peter Jackson' , featuring interviews with Michael J. Fox , Trini Alvarado, Dee Wallace-Stone, Jake Busey, Jim Fyfe and Chi McBride including rehearsing, storyboarding, miniatures and extensive exploration of the special effects, motion control and bluescreens.
Also it has Deleted scenes,Bloopers,Theatrical trailer. I don't know about you, but I feel cheated.
Nevertheless..
I found this movie to be highly entertaining! Many elements came together to create not just entertainment for the duration, but a smart presentation. Beginning with Michael J Fox's boyish charm, to the beautiful leading lady. The ghost hauntings were just halarious! Not so serious as to not be enjoyable, not so silly as not to rank as a good horror flick. Maybe to smart for the average veiwer who needs his violence spelled out in blood and gore.
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Summary: CLEVER LITTLE SPOOKFEST...
Review: Funny...but until recently I never knew that it was Lord of the Rings Genius Peter Jackson that directed this film. Anyway, the movie centers on Michael J. Fox's character of Frank Bannister, a psychic investigator who can actually see ghosts. In fact...he lives with two of them! He uses the two ghosts to create psychic disturbances and then he goes in and cleans out the ghosts.
But soon people are dying in the town of Fairwater and Frank Finds himself as the accused. On the run from the police as well as a neurotic FBI agent played by Jeffrey Combs, Frank soon learns the truth..that there is a new ghost in town. It's the Ghost of Johnny Bartlett (jake Busey)...a serial killer who was executed years ago is now back and increasing his body count. Frank sees the number of each victim on them just before Johnny Kills them.
Frank is aided by Lucy, a Doctor whose husband was one of Bartlett's victims. But Johnny has an accomplice too. His girlfriend back in the 1950's (Dee Wallace Stone) is living a life in an old mansion near the hospital where Johnny began his killing spree. Long thought to be merely a victim herself, it's found she is just as crazed as he is.
This climaxes as Frank and Lucy try to get Johnny's asses to the deserted hospital's chapel to excorcise the spirits as thy are pursued by Barltett and his girl. Along the way Frank is aided by other ghosts who prove no match for Bartlett's pure evil.
This film had really dazzling special effects for the time and quite a unique view of Hell. This was Fox's best role outside of the Back to the Future movies as he played a more serious and sympathetic character.
Jackson imbued the movie with a very good mix of comedy and horror although the last 20 minutes is played purely for chills and played very well. Busey and Stone are altogether crazed and sadistic as the lover serial killers.
There are some genuinely creepy scenes, particularly those in the abandoned hospital as Frank sees visions of how the original murders happened years ago. The script, by Jackson and his wife Fran Walsh, is both strikingly original and brilliantly clever, with dashes of the truly inspired mixed throughout along with Jackson's trademark kooky weirdness. Add to this some truly impressive FX.
This movie really showed the kind of clever film-making that jackson would use years later when doing Lord of the Rings. Really a well-done movie.
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Summary: great
Review: This is one entertaining horror flick, the performance of Michael J. Fox is great as usual. The plot is far from bored and shallow. We can be terrified and entertained from the beginning til the end of the film.
I've seen the movie more than couples time but I just bought the DVD from Amazon. Too bad the cover I've received is different from the one shown on the web :(
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