aka Robert Zemeckis Presents: The Frighteners.Frank Bannister (Michael J Fox) is a broken man since he was blamed for his wife's death. He's given up his architectural practice and is now a psychic, using a couple of friendly ghosts to con people into spending money on phony exorcisms. In the course of one of these cons he meets Lucy, whose husband dies mysteriously. Then others start dieing and it's up to Frank to stop a deranged killer from beyond the grave.
This was Jackson's first big budget, effects laden film, and he pulled out all the stops to impress. The plot is inventive, with the usual horror narrow escapes, twists and turns. A personal favourite of mine, I know it's not the best film in the world, but it is peppered with some great characters, especially Jeffrey Coombs fantastically deranged performance as a shell-shocked undercover detective, who has witnessed one too many occult happenings.
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