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| The Frighteners | 
| Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  150 reviews
Sales Rank: 2692
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video Download
Running Time: 111 minutes
ASIN: B000ID37LS
Theatrical Release Date: July 18, 1996
Release Date: June 13, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 excellent June 9, 2008
Now this was a really funny movie! Not to mention features some incredibly good and ahead of their time special effects. The ghosts are all very unusually and frighteningly charming, and the way they move around almost looks life-like at times.
The story is exciting and family friendly, and intended as a family comedy I believe (so the kids can watch it). It probably has the same kind of zany storyline direction that the Back to the Future series did, but not quite as good as those movies (they were, and always will be, classics).
Just a total coincidence- I just checked out a Michael J. Fox website and found out I'm actually typing this review on the same day as his birthday. He's 47 today!
Anyway, I highly recommend this very entertaining movie.
 Fun, slightly creepy, and imaginative good time May 11, 2008
I had never seen this movie until this past October, and that was only a portion. Still, I must say I was intrigued enough to order the DVD. And then I thought, hey, I'll go for the director's cut. So I really have nothing to compare that to, but let's just that I truly enjoyed it.
I understand that the movie is something of a cult classic and it is easy to see why. I hate to call it pure horror as it is much funnier and sweeter than that, but it does have the stuff of such. In truth, it is a movie about ghosts rather than a scary movie and the tortured man who works a con operation with them.
I'm a huge fan of Michael J. Fox and I think he does pretty good in this. His character is a little more sensitive than what I have seen him and he pulls it off, but he most comes to life as the stalwart and brave soul we all know he is.
The tale itself is really quite imaginative, especially those fascinated by the fun ghosts can offer. In fact, most of the ghosts we meet are nice and funny rather than scary. And hey, someone was actually to make ghosts work with objects in a logical way!
This is a great Halloween movie and if this had extra scenes I liked them. The extras are also plenty of fun, featuring the making of, interviews, and even a bit on real ghostly experiences.
 Entertaining, but not really a horroe film April 24, 2008
I caught this movie on TV, and it was entertaining enough for me to sit through the whole film. I would have liked to give it a 3.6 stars if I could. I think it has a spark of something which makes it a little better than average, but I hesitate to call it excellent (4 stars). Since I knew nothing about this film, I was quite amazed to find people categorize it as a horror-comedy when I later looked it up here on Amazon.
I am an easily terrified person, so I generally stayed away from horror or gory movies. I remember when I finally gathered enough courage to watch "The Shining" because it is said to be such a classic, I had to turn my head away every time I sensed something potentially scary coming up. In the end, my total viewing time of that movie was less than 5 minutes. I suppose this explains how much I can stomach a horror movie. When I watched this movie, the word "scary" never came into my mind. I though it was fun, the special effect nice, and it was nice to see Michael J Fox again after a long while (although I wished his character weren't so headstrong, as usual). The plot could have been a little more unpredictable. But it was fun, entertaining, but no horror movie.
Two or three different movies in one April 22, 2008
The director's cut of The Frighteners doesn't help the film's awkward shifts of tone much, but then this always seemed like two or three good ideas that never really gelled into the same movie. The idea of Michael J. Fox's paranormal investigator running a scam with a trio of real ghosts who haunt the houses he charges to exorcise is never given enough of a comic workout, just as the inspired idea of an undead serial killer trying to beat the competition in the body count stakes because "the title should be held by an American" never becomes a genuinely chilling figure. There are a few neat twists, but the film still feels more like it had a pitch and a treatment rather than a solid script, offering only a third as much fun as it really should. Still, no complaints about the lavish extras on this flipper disc (theEuropean release spreads the same extras over a 3-disc set) - aside from the usual deleted scenes and trailer there's even a four hour documentary produced by Jackson!
GREAT HD DVD IN PERFECT CONDITION/ FAST SHIPPING April 10, 2008
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ITEM ARRIVED IN PERFECT CONDITION AND VERY FAST SHIPPING. I WOULD DEFINATELY ORDER FROM SELLER AGAIN!!!!!
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