Description: THE FRIGHTENERS (BLU-RAY 2011) BRAND NEW - 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - INCLUDES 2 VERSIONS OF THE FILMPETER JACKSON'S DIRECTOR'S CUT & THEATRICAL VERSION - HORROR - SCI-FI - COMEDY - MYSTERY - THRILLER - FANTASY PRODUCT INFORMATION PROVIDED BELOW~ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Frighteners is a 1996 supernatural comedy horror film directed by Peter Jackson and co-written with Fran Walsh. The film stars Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Dee Wallace Stone, Jeffrey Combs, R. Lee Ermey and Jake Busey. The Frighteners tells the story of Frank Bannister (Fox), an architect who develops psychic abilities allowing him to see, hear, and communicate with ghosts after his wife's murder. He initially uses his new abilities to befriend ghosts, whom he sends to haunt people so that he can charge them handsome fees for "exorcising" the ghosts. However, the spirit of a mass murderer appears posing as the Grim Reaper, able to attack the living and the dead, prompting Frank to investigate the supernatural presence. Jackson and Walsh conceived the idea for The Frighteners during the script-writing phase of Heavenly Creatures. Executive producer Robert Zemeckis hired the duo to write the script, with the original intention of Zemeckis directing The Frighteners as a spin-off film of the television series, Tales from the Crypt. With Jackson and Walsh's first draft submitted in January 1994, Zemeckis believed the film would be better off directed by Jackson, produced by Zemeckis and funded/distributed by Universal Studios. The visual effects were created by Jackson's Weta Digital, which had only been in existence for three years. This, plus the fact that The Frighteners required more digital effects shots than almost any movie made until that time, resulted in the eighteen-month period for effects work by Weta Digital being largely stressed. Despite a rushed post-production schedule, Universal was so impressed with Jackson's rough cut on The Frighteners, the studio moved the theatrical release date up by three months. The film was not a box office success, but received generally positive reviews from critics. The film gained a cult following and is considered a cult classic in Jackson's catalog. Plot In 1964, in the town of Fairwater, California, orderly Johnny Bartlett is executed for killing 12 people at a sanatorium, driven by his ambition to become the most prolific serial killer. His teenage lover, Patricia Ann Bradley, is treated as an accomplice and sentenced to prison. Many years later, she is released into her mother's care and kept under strict house arrest. In 1990, Frank Bannister, a successful architect, is a self-centered husband to his wife, Debra. During an argument, an inebriated Frank crashes his car, and police later find Debra dead nearby with the number '13' carved into her forehead. Frank has no memory of the event, but the trauma grants him the ability to see the spirit world. Five years later, Frank lives in the unfinished remnants of the dream home he was building for Debra. Wracked with guilt over her death, Frank has become a cynical con man, using his abilities to "exorcise" hauntings staged by ghosts in his employ: street gangster Cyrus, nerdy Stuart, and The Judge, an Old West gunslinger. While exorcising the home of physician Lucy Lynskey and her self-absorbed husband Ray, Frank notices the number "37" glowing on Ray's forehead. Ray later dies of what seems like a heart attack. As Frank helps Lucy communicate with Ray's ghost at a local restaurant, he witnesses a Grim Reaper-like entity crush the heart of a man marked "38". Panicked, Frank flees and follows a heavenly light to the museum, where he discovers the number 39 victim and the Reaper's next target, newspaper editor Magda Rees-Jones. Frank fails to save Magda from the Reaper, who also kills The Judge. Realizing the murders are pointing to him, Frank turns himself in to the police. He is investigated by Milton Dammers, an eccentric and unstable FBI agent traumatized by years of torture and sexual abuse while working undercover with Satanic cults. Dammers is convinced that Frank killed Debra and is responsible for the high number of unexplained heart attack deaths in the town. Lucy visits Frank in jail and they bond over their shared losses. The Reaper attacks Lucy, the number 41 victim, and Cyrus and Stuart are killed defending her and Frank while they escape. Aware he cannot protect her from the Reaper as a human, Lucy induces a near-death experience in Frank using drugs to slow his heart. Dammers captures Lucy, intending to let Frank remain dead, but Frank's spirit rescues her and inflicts enough damage on the Reaper to destroy his disguise, revealing him as the spirit of Bartlett, who seeks to raise his murder count even higher after death. Though poised to finish Bartlett, Frank is resurrected before landing the final blow, allowing Bartlett to escape. While Frank recovers following his revival, Lucy warns her patient, Patricia, of Bartlett's return. Patricia reveals she is still in love with Bartlett and summoned him from Hell to continue their murder spree. Patricia kills her mother, while Frank and Lucy trap Bartlett in his urn and flee to the abandoned sanitorium, intending to take his ashes to the chapel and banish him back to Hell. While Patricia and Dammers each pursue the pair through the sanitorium, Frank experiences visions of the 1964 massacre, showing Patricia was actively involved in the murders. This helps Frank recall that Bartlett's ghost killed Debra after the crash and Patricia carved the number into her forehead. Dammers manages to corner Frank in front of the chapel and takes the urn, unwittingly releasing Bartlett before being killed by Patricia. Patricia fatally strangles Frank before moving on to a restrained Lucy, but as a spirit, he pulls her soul from her body and ascends to Heaven, dragging Patricia's spirit with him and forcing Bartlett to give chase. Although Bartlett frees Patricia and attempts to return to Earth, they are consumed by a demonic creature and taken to Hell. Frank arrives in Heaven where he is reunited with Cyrus, Stuart, and Debra, who sends him back to Earth, telling him to be happy. Sometime later, Frank demolishes his incomplete house and starts a relationship with Lucy, who, following her own close encounter with death, can now see ghosts as well. The FrightenersTheatrical release poster Product details Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1 MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated) & R (Rated R) Director : Peter Jackson Media Format : Blu-ray, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen Run time : 3 hours and 53 minutes Release date : September 13, 2011 Actors : Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs, Peter Dobson Producers : Robert Zemeckis, Jamie Selkirk, Peter Jackson Studio : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Writers : Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson Country of Origin : USA Number of discs : 1TriviaIt was during filming this on location in New Zealand that Michael J. Fox made up his mind that he'd had enough of being away from his family making movies, and decided to head back to the small screen and star in a new sitcom (Spin City (1996)). 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Video Format: NTSC
Music Artist: Danny Elfman
Case Type: Blu-ray Case
Subtitle Language: English, French, Spanish
Rating: NR
Sub-Genre: Devils/Demons, Ghosts, Gore, Occult/Supernatural, Supernatural, Comedy Video, serial killer, haunted house, psychopath, violence, supernatural power, evil spirit, creature feature, poltergeist, demon, dark comedy
Director: Peter Jackson
Studio: Universal Studios
Edition: Anniversary Edition, Unrated Edition
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Type: MOVIE: HORROR - COMEDY - SCI-FI
Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...)
Format: BLU-RAY
Language: English, French
Release Year: 1996
Producer: Robert Zemeckis, Peter Jackson, Tim Sanders, Jamie Selkirk, Fran Walsh
Actor: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs, Dee Wallace, Jake Busey, Chi McBride, Jim Fyfe, Troy Evans, Julianna McCarthy, R. Lee Ermey, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Angela Bloomfield, Desmond Kelly, Jonathan Blick, Todd Rippon, John Sumner, Peter Jackson
Features: Commentary, Widescreen, With Subtitles, and more!, 2 VERSIONS - RATED R & UNRATED
Run Time: 2 HOURS 3 MINUTES
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Psychological, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Traditional, serial killer
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Season: The Frighteners
Movie/TV Title: The Frighteners
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