The Frighteners

After a car accident in which his wife, Debra, was killed and he was injured, Frank Bannister develops psychic abilities allowing him to , hear, and communicate with ghosts. After losing his wife, he then gave up his job as an architect, letting his unfinished dream house sit incomplete for years, and put these skills to use by befriending a few ghosts and getting them to haunt houses in the area to drum up work for his ghostbusting business; Then Frank proceeds to exorcise the houses for a fee. But when he discovers that an entity resembling the Grim Reaper is killing people, marking numbers on their forehead beforehand, Frank tries to help the people whom the Reaper is after! Written by Anthony Pereyra The Frighteners is a 1996 English-language Comedy Fantasy movie starring Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Dee Wallace Stone, Jeffrey Combs and Jeff Slaven. WingNut Films was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Peter Jackson and Jamie Selkirk. The Frighteners is written by Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson and it is directed by Peter Jackson. Universal Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the film. The Frighteners was released on 19th July 1996 and takes a screen time of 110 minutes. The Frighteners was made on a budget of $26 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $29 million. Cinematography was done by John Blick and Alun Bollinger and editing by Jamie Selkirk. The music was composed by Danny Elfman.
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