The Frighteners (1996)

Cast

Michael J. Fox
as Frank Bannister
Melanie Lynskey
as Deputy
Peter Jackson
as Man with Piercings
R. Lee Ermey
as Sgt. Hiles

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Genres & Description

Comedy Fantasy Horror

7.1 / 10

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!

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Comments on this trailer
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Marcus Chan

Loved this film!! - @Thursday, May 31, 2018 8:23 AM

AstanaxKnight

I just bought this movie yesterday, April 16th, 2018 in honor of Gunny R. Lee Ermey. May his real ghost be just as bad ass as the character he portrayed here. - @Wednesday, April 18, 2018 12:11 AM

Allison Davis

i did love this movie - @Wednesday, April 11, 2018 1:28 AM

Ali Fatima

this movie is pretty good but doesn't success for boxing recond a cinema - @Sunday, March 25, 2018 4:53 PM

davsny5

1:44 ow that sweet ass on Magda Reece Jones loved her character shame she died halfway through the film. Elizabeth Hawthorne is such a talented and gorgeous woman. Great effects, great movie, lots of fun remember it when I was a teenager. - @Monday, February 5, 2018 8:21 AM

Boss Battle Royale

The voice-over for this trailer is just EPIC! Back when trailers were done right! - @Thursday, January 18, 2018 10:51 PM

rose petal96

Need a remake this is a good movie - @Tuesday, December 26, 2017 8:03 PM

OBIWANJABRONI

They did trailers right back in the day. Just enough information to keep me interested but the entire movie and best parts haven't been spoiled. - @Tuesday, November 7, 2017 5:09 PM

Samuel Leonam

Can't believe I finally found the name of this movie. - @Sunday, November 5, 2017 6:42 PM

Brynley Jones

This doesn't look like it should be rated R! - @Sunday, August 20, 2017 6:09 PM

DragonGuy GTO

I wonder where prvt. Pyle was, he was probably being called a worthless piece of crap that killed his own DI, while sgt. Hartman AKA Gunnery sergeant R. Lee Ermey, was making Pyle suck his thumb like a baby again just like in Boot camp - @Thursday, June 29, 2017 7:41 PM

cutie 82

who watch this movie in 2017 - @Sunday, January 29, 2017 4:37 PM

Thomas Fay

If the fact that PETER JACKSON DIRECTED THIS FLICK is not a selling point, I don't know what is. - @Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:01 AM

Dusty Partition

I had to look this up cause funhaus - @Friday, January 20, 2017 12:27 AM

Diego Kapfenberg

I was 13 nice days for sure!! - @Wednesday, January 4, 2017 7:05 AM

Glen Smith

Love this movie funny and frightening at the same time a lot like the ex actually. - @Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:09 AM

Paulsgirl28 R

The frighteners is my all-time favourite movie I watched him when I was 11 years old - @Thursday, October 13, 2016 1:39 AM

ZombiePowder

It's interesting to note that this movie, along with Death Becomes Her and From Dusk Till Dawn, feels more like a Tales From The Crypt movie than the Tales From The Crypt movies did. - @Tuesday, September 13, 2016 4:05 AM

Jacko Jew Jr

Starts as a comedy and ends as a thriller - @Wednesday, July 20, 2016 12:25 AM

Jacko Jew Jr

Love this movie - @Wednesday, July 20, 2016 12:24 AM

liquidcactus

hahaa wow i remember watching this in 1999 with my mum on austar - @Tuesday, June 7, 2016 2:43 PM

stonebrooks 12

When your #'s up...That's it. - @Saturday, April 30, 2016 6:47 PM

Andrew Bjork

I know it's not the same film, but Bobby Brown's "On Our Own" or MC Hammer's "Addams Groove" would have fit in well with this trailer. - @Wednesday, April 13, 2016 4:04 AM

GLITCHED MATRIX 2.0

love this movie - @Tuesday, April 12, 2016 11:52 PM

Stocko

One of Michael J Fox's best.... - @Wednesday, March 16, 2016 8:08 PM

Sven Scherner

Selbst Casper ist gruseliger wie dieser Grotten Schlechte Streifen. - @Sunday, March 13, 2016 1:39 AM

Doomsday Princess

Awe this move is the best, I love it - @Sunday, January 24, 2016 9:06 PM

planetbintang

just realized, peter jackson was the director, yay!! - @Wednesday, December 9, 2015 5:54 AM

Miranda

it is supposed to be a comedy?? i was frightened as shit when I was a child :( - @Sunday, August 23, 2015 11:33 AM

DeepEye1994

Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, The Frighteners... Best ghost movies ever - @Monday, June 29, 2015 11:25 AM

KipperBill

400th like! - @Friday, April 3, 2015 5:21 AM

Dan S M

I remember loving this movie, does it hold up? - @Sunday, March 8, 2015 8:12 AM

esathegreat

This movie sucks - @Wednesday, February 25, 2015 9:15 AM

Alison Blaire

This movie is totally badass!! - @Saturday, January 24, 2015 6:36 PM

Nellenox

one of the best - @Thursday, January 1, 2015 5:18 PM

Saurian Scapes

Wow the special FX are so real!!! - @Saturday, October 25, 2014 12:48 AM

Heba Tallah

old is gold :D - @Friday, August 1, 2014 8:49 PM

One L3gend

I love how they took some of the music from Mortal Kombat, over all a good movie - @Sunday, June 15, 2014 7:03 AM

ninjazoner

this movie feels and mirrors beatle juice, man. - @Saturday, May 24, 2014 3:46 AM

Chex LeMeneux

The trailer contains some spoilers... - @Friday, May 9, 2014 1:29 AM

SrmthfgRockLee

Hahaha this film was awesome! Had it on video casette once as a rent or something.. it's a gr8 commedy/a little horror film :P xD childhood.. g00d 0ld times - @Wednesday, May 7, 2014 6:17 PM

Riley Nolan

Best movie, waves of nostalgia too right now! - @Wednesday, March 26, 2014 2:58 PM

Coronel Aureliano Buendia

Anyone know the name of the song that hears Milton Dammers before take to Lucy to the cemetery? - @Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:33 PM

camila love

its even scarier concidering the school is really haunted. - @Friday, January 24, 2014 9:05 AM

abrianna

As much as i love this movie, the best movie Michael J Fox has been in is Back to the Future. - @Friday, January 10, 2014 10:41 PM

Peg Peg

This movie was epic! - @Monday, November 18, 2013 10:54 PM

Claire Delray

michael :) - @Sunday, October 6, 2013 9:47 AM

mystiemyth

Because it's the same actor Jeffrey Combs. - @Sunday, September 1, 2013 4:48 PM

Hat Guy

Those very first words. Is it just me or does it sound a lot like The Question from Justice League Unlimited? - @Friday, August 23, 2013 10:06 PM

cornemuz

on the internet - @Thursday, August 22, 2013 6:10 PM