The Frighteners (1996 Dave’s Pick)

The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1996 features our producer David Rosen’s personal pick, Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners. Directed and co-written (with Fran Walsh) by Peter Jackson and starring Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Jeffrey Combs, Peter Dobson, Dee Wallace, Chi McBride and Jim Fyfe, The Frighteners was a box-office disappointment but helped launch Jackson’s career in Hollywood.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-frighteners-1996), Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-07-19-ca-25543-story.html), and Ken Tucker in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1996/07/26/frighteners/).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1996 installment featuring our future cult classic pick, David Cronenberg’s Crash.