The Frighteners
As reviewed by Miguel Cowering Kesey
Michael J. Fox. What more can I say really? Although, he has a severe haircut in this badboy. His $6 haircut is no more, it's evidently a $1 shave. Anyway, it's about a paranomal investigator and eliminator, Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox of Family Ties and High School USA superstardom), who fools people into believing they have ghosts by making his own pet ghosts haunt their houses...and then, voila, he gets rid of them and makes a sly buck.
The J Fox can see ghosts since he was in a car crash years before when he had a $16 haircut which looked like Mon's on a bad day. In this car crash his wife had died, and he'd been able to see ghosts ever since.
Anyway, he starts to see numbers on people's heads, and then sooner or later, they die. Eventually, J Fox works out that people with numbers on their heads are about to be killed by a ghost (which is quite scary really since it's in the formation of the Grim Reaper versus computer technology), and he has to fight it.
This is a Peter Jackson film, but it isn't really like Bad Taste or Braindead at all; in fact, it's quite filtered. It isn't that good to be honest...it's watchable, and relatively enjoyable, but I wouldn't say it was all that interesting. Even the production from Robert Zemeckistionism (or whatever his name is) of Back To The Future fame and the music from Danny "Same tune every film" Elfman can't save this from pure mediocrity. Scarier than most horror films, but not quite as scary as the big hairy guy from "Green Ice".