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| Directed by | Peter Jackson |
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| Edited by | Jamie Selkirk |
| Music by | Danny Elfman |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures[1] |
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Running time | 110 minutes[2] |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $26 million[4] |
| Box office | $29.3 million |
The Frighteners is a 1996 supernatural comedy horror film directed by Peter Jackson and co-written with Fran Walsh. The film stars Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Dee Wallace Stone, Jeffrey Combs, R. Lee Ermey and Jake Busey. The Frighteners tells the story of Frank Bannister (Fox), an architect who develops psychic abilities allowing him to see, hear, and communicate with ghosts after his wife's murder. He initially uses his new abilities to befriend ghosts, whom he sends to haunt people so that he can charge them handsome fees for "exorcising" the ghosts. However, the spirit of a mass murderer appears posing as the Grim Reaper, able to attack the living and the dead, prompting Frank to investigate the supernatural presence.
Jackson and Walsh conceived the idea for The Frighteners during the script-writing phase of Heavenly Creatures. Executive producer Robert Zemeckis hired the duo to write the script, with the original intention of Zemeckis directing The Frighteners as a spin-off film of the television series, Tales from the Crypt. With Jackson and Walsh's first draft submitted in January 1994, Zemeckis believed the film would be better off directed by Jackson, produced by Zemeckis and funded/distributed by Universal Studios. The visual effects were created by Jackson's Weta Digital, which had only been in existence for three years. This, plus the fact that The Frighteners required more digital effects shots than almost any movie made until that time, resulted in the eighteen-month period for effects work by Weta Digital being largely stressed.
Despite a rushed post-production schedule, Universal was so impressed with Jackson's rough cut on The Frighteners, the studio moved the theatrical release date up by three months. The film was not a box office success, but received generally positive reviews from critics. The film gained a cult following and is considered an overlooked work in Jackson's catalog.[5][6][7][8][9]
- ^ a b "The Frighteners (1996)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
- ^ "THE FRIGHTENERS (15)". British Board of Film Classification. January 10, 1997. Retrieved November 21, 2012.
- ^ a b "The Frighteners (1996)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on April 3, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
- ^ Pryor, Ian (2003). Peter Jackson: From Prince of Splatter to Lord of the Rings. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. pp. 204–205. ISBN 0-312-32294-1.
- ^ "How Peter Jackson's the Frighteners Brought the Personification of Death to Life". December 14, 2018.
- ^ "Peter Jackson's 'The Frighteners': An Unjustly Forgotten Gem". May 8, 2018.
- ^ "Peter Jackson's the Frighteners: The Best Movie You Never Saw". October 20, 2020.
- ^ "'The Frighteners' is the Perfect Bookend to Peter Jackson's Horror Period". July 21, 2022.
- ^ "The Frighteners, Peter Jackson's Precursor to Lord of the Rings, Still Scares and Surprises". May 11, 2018.