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Title: The Frighteners (1996)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Michael J. Fox | ... | Frank Bannister | |
| Trini Alvarado | ... | Dr. Lucy Lynskey | |
| Peter Dobson | ... | Ray Lynskey | |
| John Astin | ... | The Judge | |
| Jeffrey Combs | ... | Milton Dammers | |
| Dee Wallace | ... | Patricia Ann Bradley (as Dee Wallace-Stone) | |
| Jake Busey | ... | Johnny Bartlett | |
| Chi McBride | ... | Cyrus | |
| Jim Fyfe | ... | Stuart, Bannister's Ghostly Assistant | |
| Troy Evans | ... | Sheriff Walt Perry | |
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Julianna McCarthy | ... | Old Lady Bradley |
| R. Lee Ermey | ... | Sgt. Hiles | |
| Elizabeth Hawthorne | ... | Magda Rees-Jones | |
| Angela Bloomfield | ... | Debra Bannister | |
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Desmond Kelly | ... | Harry Sinclair |
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! Written by Anthony Pereyra <hypersonic91@yahoo.com>
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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.