Synopsis
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
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Cast
- Michael J. FoxFrank Bannister
- Trini AlvaradoLucy Lynskey
- Peter DobsonRay Lynskey
- John AstinThe Judge
- Jeffrey CombsMilton Dammers
- Dee WallacePatricia Bradley
- Jake BuseyJohnny Bartlett
- Chi McBrideCyrus
- Jim FyfeStuart
- Troy EvansSheriff Perry
Recommendations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
The Frighteners is also that rare horror film that actually gets better as it proceeds; this scare machine has a heart and a brain. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Saucy, scary and pleasantly unsettling. - 67
Austin Chronicle
A thoroughly preposterous movie that's as outrageously entertaining as it is relentlessly chaotic. - 63
ReelViews
Following director Peter Jackson's powerful, true-life matricide tale, Heavenly Creatures, The Frighteners falls short of expectations by being just one of many in the long line of 1996 summer movies. - 50
Chicago Tribune
A dreary, needlessly violent and ugly comic thriller about a psychic hustler (Michael J. Fox) who gets more than he bargained for with his latest scam. Fox seems to be trying to get hip in the movies, and he's lost his way here. - 50
Variety
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. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Smothers whatever merits it may have had in a rush of bells, whistles, bombast and smoke. - 50
San Francisco Examiner
The Frighteners is a gooey pastiche of Casper, Ghost, Poltergeist, Back to the Future (it's produced by Future director Robert Zemeckis), Ghostbusters, and episodes of Columbo.
