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Title:Movie Reviews and Discussion
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Created:Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1249
Total number of notes:16012

1125.0. "The Frighteners" by POLAR::LARABIE (Slinky's kinked) Fri Jun 28 1996 10:13

    
    
    
    Anyone out there hear about a new movie starting July 19, 1996 called
    The Frighteners?  It stars Michael J Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson,
    John Astin, Dee Wallace Stone, Jeffrey Combs, and Jake Busey.
    
    Any info would be appreciated.
    
    Rick
    
    It does have a pretty cool looking poster!
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1125.1Nice Ghosts Suck!POLAR::TYSICKHe who hesitates...masterbatesFri Jun 28 1996 15:013
    I saw a preview for it a little while ago and it kinda looks like
    "Casper" meets the "Ghost Busters"...it probably won't make my summer
    list!
1125.2BOOKIE::chayna.zko.dec.com::xanadu::eppesNina EppesFri Jun 28 1996 16:3015
I heard about it for the first time the other night in an interview with
Michael J. Fox on "Entertainment Tonight" or some such show.  Apparently
he plays a guy who has some ghost pals - he gets them to haunt a house and
then he goes to the house owners and offers to get rid of the ghosts for a
hefty fee (what the ghosts get out of this arrangement, I don't know).  

From the clips they showed, it looks like at some point Fox's
character becomes (or starts to become or seems to become) a ghost himself,
but it wasn't clear how that happened (i.e., whether he actually dies or
what).

That's about all I could tell of the movie.  The effects looked pretty
good.

-- Nina
1125.3WMOIS::LYONS_SFri Jun 28 1996 16:3711
    
    
    What little I recall from an article in EW is that MJ Fox plays a con
    artist who somehow is able to "connect" with the spirits and with their
    help he manages to con folks, but then at the end he or one of the
    spirits gets to feeling guilty about doing it.
    
    This isn't much I realize but I guess it just wasn't high enough on my
    list of summer movies to pay that close attention to the article.
    
    
1125.4time for comeback????????????????HOTLNE::S_COLLINSMon Jul 01 1996 05:566
    
    
    maybe this will be Fox's comeback........
    
    
    S_COLLINS
1125.5Comedy?????POLAR::LARABIESlinky's kinkedMon Jul 01 1996 07:179
    
    So I take it this is supposed to be a comedy???  If it is,
    it's got one helluva cool lookin poster.  
    
    Too bad, I was thinkin of seeing it, til I found all this
    out.
    Ah well.........thanks for the info anyways.
    
    Rick
1125.6WMOIS::LYONS_SMon Jul 01 1996 13:2410
    
    
    I saw a preview for this on the tube this weekend and it didn't look
    anything like what EW wrote.  EW made it seem like a comedy and yet the
    preview made it look like a scary movie.  ????? I don't know.....
    
    It doesn't make it to my must see summer movie list anyways....
    
    
    
1125.7Not worth a cent.ABACUS::PENNELLAMon Jul 29 1996 17:205
    I saw this movie over the weekend.  One thing to say about:
    
    SAVE YOUR MONEY!!! UGHHHHH!
    
    tp
1125.8Not bad, but not a full price movieTNPUBS::NAZZAROAin't no one gonna dog me downMon Jul 29 1996 20:038
    Interesting, nice special effects, average story.
    
    Michael J. Fox does a nice job of acting.  This couldn't have been an
    easy role to play.
    
    Catch it at a matinee or on video.
    
    NAZZ
1125.9It's different....HOTLNE::SHIELDSThu Jan 23 1997 03:3615