Retro Movie: The Frighteners

This movie is actually one of my come back.  Sometimes when there is nothing on and I just want to watch a movie I will come back to this movie starring Michael J. Fox and Jeffrey Combs.  It is an interesting movie about a man and his battle with a ghost who looks like Death.  This film has a little of everything you want in a movie.  Comedy, action, horror, and adventure with a little mystery added on for good measure.

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Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) stars as an architect who after a near death experience could see ghosts.  Who uses this ability to become friends with a couple of goofy ghost and started a fake exorcism company by having his two friends haunt people and then have them call him to get rid of the ghost.  This was going well until the husband of a former couple gets murdered by a ghost.  He has a number carved in his head and this sends Frank down a path to discovering what really happened the night his wife died because she had a number carved in her head in the very same manner when she passed.  This sends Frank out on a hunt to find this ghost who has been killing people who are alive by rupture their hearts in their chest and then marking them with a number so that Frank continues his journey of discovery.

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I enjoyed this movie though it was not popular at the time.  It does blend many genres together to form a decent movie.  It has a little bit of everything so everyone can enjoy.  I hope you too will watch this movie that is an earlier version of, “The Sixth Sense,” just more comedy and murder.

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