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The Frighteners [videorecording] / Robert Zemeckis presents a Wingnut Films production ; a Peter Jackson film a Universal release.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 20286 : | Universal Home VideoLanguage: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Universal City, CA : Universal Home Video, c1996.Edition: Widescreen edDescription: 1 videdisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 078322799X
  • 9780783227993
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Executive producer, Tim Sanders ; editor, Jamie Selkirk ; produced by Jamie Selkirk, Peter Jackson ; directed by Peter Jackson.
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Dee Wallace Stone, Jeffrey Combs, Jake Busey, Chi McBride.Summary: Con man Frank Bannister (Fox) has a unique scam-- he works with a group of ghosts who haunt a home until Frank comes along to drive them out, for the right price. But the small town of Fairwater is plagued by a serial killer's evil spirit and Frank and his spiritual cronies face the challenge of getting rid of the ghost before the police decide to get rid of Frank.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD HORROR FRIGHTEN Available 33111009508165
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Charlatan Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) has genuine psychic powers, but he doesn't use them to help people. Rather, he generates cases for his supernatural private-eye firm by harassing a group of hapless ghosts (including a dearly departed Wild West outlaw and an undead judge played by John Astin) into staging hauntings and poltergeists in the homes of likely marks. Bannister's world turns on its head when he starts noticing real hauntings around town -- ghostly assassinations that seem to be tied to the execution 20 years earlier of a brutal serial killer. Lucy Lunskey (Trini Alvarado), the wife of one unlucky victim, teams up with Bannister to get to the bottom of the killings and find out what shut-in Patricia Bradley (Dee Wallace Stone) and her witchy mother (Julia McCarthy) have to do with the sinister spree. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi

Originally released as a motion picture.

Title from disc.

Executive producer, Tim Sanders ; editor, Jamie Selkirk ; produced by Jamie Selkirk, Peter Jackson ; directed by Peter Jackson.

Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Dee Wallace Stone, Jeffrey Combs, Jake Busey, Chi McBride.

Con man Frank Bannister (Fox) has a unique scam-- he works with a group of ghosts who haunt a home until Frank comes along to drive them out, for the right price. But the small town of Fairwater is plagued by a serial killer's evil spirit and Frank and his spiritual cronies face the challenge of getting rid of the ghost before the police decide to get rid of Frank.

Rated R.

DVD player required.

DVD; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby surround; single layer.

Closed captioned.

In English, Spanish and French.

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