[Michael J.] Fox seems to be trying to get hip in the movies, and he's lost his way here.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 23, 2017

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.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2009

At times the relentless special effects and tangled plotting veer towards visual and narrative overkill, but the final tonal swerve is shocking and effective.

| Jan 26, 2006

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 12, 2002

Full of special effects, but still strangely 'indie', the movie has a unique sensibility ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2001

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2001

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

An object lesson in what to avoid when making the transition from low-budget films to studio productions.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

A thoroughly preposterous movie that's as outrageously entertaining as it is relentlessly chaotic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Huge ghostly fun, and a fine achievement from the early days of CGI.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A mess with sporadic flashes of creativity.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Incredible, the amount of work that went into ``The Frighteners.'' And appalling.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The Frighteners is ... that rare horror film that actually gets better as it proceeds; this scare machine has a heart and a brain.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 19, 1996