The Frighteners 1996

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Fortunately director Jackson, at home with all kinds of excess, keeps everything spinning nicely, not even losing a step when the mood turns increasingly disturbing. Read more

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Janet Maslin, New York Times: The actors can't keep the film's mood from verging on hysteria as the story roams all over the map. "The Frighteners" has flitted everywhere, even to heaven and hell, before it's over. Read more

Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly: The Frighteners is ... that rare horror film that actually gets better as it proceeds; this scare machine has a heart and a brain. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Incredible, the amount of work that went into ``The Frighteners.'' And appalling. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: An object lesson in what to avoid when making the transition from low-budget films to studio productions. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: At times the relentless special effects and tangled plotting veer towards visual and narrative overkill, but the final tonal swerve is shocking and effective. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Story was originally conceived as an episode of "Tales From the Crypt," and that is perhaps what it should have remained, as the thinness of the conceit shows throughout, painfully so in the first half. Read more