Peter Jackson packs two-and-a-half movies worth of plot into one movie with this horror/comedy about psychic investigators that plays like a Coen Brothers adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story.
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WEIRD VIEW CREW, HALLOWEIRD SERIES: “THE FRIGHTENERS” (1996)
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Here’s what I was trying to say: 👻 Peter “LOTR” Jackson followed some of his early hits with an underappreciated screwball ghost suspense thriller, with Michael J. Fox as an end-of-his-tether ghostbuster who brings his own ghosts along, just in case you haven’t got any of your own. He gets in trouble with a ghost who’s bumping off the citizens of his seaside town. Fine special effects on top of special effects, a funny script, no slack moments, and Jeffrey “Re-Animator” Combs is a standout as a psycho FBI agent. Plus, Jake Busey channels his old man, and R. Lee Ermey shows you can’t get away from your drill instructor, even after he’s dead. Recommended by the American Mothers’ Horror Appreciation Society.