Wow, I can not believe that I have never seen this movie in full before.I had seen pits of here and there now and again.I love this movies It one the most fussiest horror movies of all timeI loved the p'ot the movie as it started of the word go,This was a really fun movie to watch and it was not scary at all , I don't think it wanted to be!I could not stop laughing at what some of the ghost were doing One think did bug me in this movie was , that some ghost ending going though thinks but some ghost can land on a car and not go though As i was wacthing this time flew as it was really fast pace and the acting was really good of the whole castAnd the effects for ghost were really done well
... View MoreA movie that Robert Zemeckis proves that he finds Michael J Fox very correct.without Michael J Fox playing Frank Bannister, my friends and I would not even have any interest to watch Frighteners.Now even our throne rush team call "Frighteners" see how much I love this movie. yes it's true. my throne rush facebook game team is called this movie. Maybe to some people who admire Johnny Depp, they think that Johnny Depp would be able to play a better frank Bannister than Fox. but to we MJF fans, MJF is better. even Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise (I am a Tom Cruise fan) can not even have what MJF influenced people on this movie. everyone would hope their idols inside this movie. me too. My idols are Tom Cruise and Michael J Fox, but since Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman divorced I throw tom Cruise away. *talk back to MJF as it's Michael's movie*Yes I would speak that, you love Johnny Depp, just like how we love MJF, of course everyone would want every movie contain their favorite actor. Mentioning/remembering the times this movie was displayed in cinemas, NOT MANY PEOPLE were in cinemas. because MJF popularity was still weak (not really influenced enough in Hong Kong) around hong Kong. only back to the future that played in 1995 in TVB or ATV in Hongkong, then no more. that time people do not watch much English films. we only watch how funny and how the story goes, we don't even notice which actors play BTTF Marty mcfly, but Marty Mcfly is very remarkable in hongkong, we don't know that he is Michael J Fox. When Frighteners comes to Hongkong, my mom Sandra Ng. (facebook URL BingNg7, I am facebook URL Olivie.lo) and I went cinema watching frighteners, we were really delighted that not many people were watching. because the screen was clear enough to watch the whole movie, unlike pulp fiction times that a lot of people sitting in cinemas covering the screen bottom part, maybe you may think bottom part does not cover a lot of things, but some subtitles (we read Chinese subtitles when watching English movies) are covered. I don't have good English that time . that was why I am happy when frighteners was so outstanding and NOT MANY PEOPLE, I repeat, NOT MANY PEOPLE in cinemas. NOT MANY PEOPLE in cinemas as if this movie is junk/crappy/rubbish. but they were stupid, this movie is very remarkable, no wonder this movie is called "being highly-underrated". yes it's true, seriously underrated. people were stupid that they lost an opportunity to watch such a great movie. HOW STUPID. I am not being mean but those who had not watched this movie in cinemas must now be regretting when they watch this movie's DVD HAHA
... View MoreAccused of murder, a small-town psychic charlatan learns that his skills in dealing with the deceased are put to the test for real when the murder spree continues despite everything he can do to stop it and must keep the spirit from harming his friends.This here turned out to be quite an infuriating and quite troubling if somewhat interesting effort. Most of this is due to the fact that the film is far more of a fantasy effort that a straight-forward horror effort which is strange considering the subject matter at hand. This is mainly found in the finale at the hospital about the subject being sent into a heavenly arena and all the different after-effects on the body being adjusted to life back on Earth, all this just makes for a rather confusing time being that the main purpose is to stop the rampage of the ghostly figure throughout the town that only he can see and believe, so the sudden influx of mystical elements that this does at the very end makes for a confusing time. As well, the fact that these scenes force the film along far longer than it really should as the lengthy running time here really kills this one in that last section, not only with the sudden influx of fantasy but the mindless need to pay off far more plot- threads than it needed. Overall, this really could've used a few minutes shaved off here by deciding to abandon a few of these plots. That said, there's a lot to like here especially the scenes of the hooded ghostly menace in action, most notably the kinetic sequence in the holding cell where the good ghosts go fight the hooded ghost and take the fight between the walls and they good barreling through the different sections of the room as the humans watch and wait for them to appear and disappear, as well as a couple stellar attacks on a moving car that look absolutely amazing, an ambush in a graveyard and finally the hospital confrontation that makes for a lot of fun, so as an action film and horror film it definitely works wonders. As well, the CGI used is actually well-done and doesn't look cheap or fake at all, and gives the ghosts a fluidity that actually comes off nicely and makes up for some of the other flaws.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.
... View MoreThis 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.
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