The Frighteners (Peter Jackson's Director's Cut)

It is really good movie to watch. I highly recommend it to anyone

Nothing else to be said… love the movie! Arrived on time, w/o damage.

There’s so many movies that I loved years ago and I watch now kind of horrified at what we thought was funny. A lot doesn’t hold up in today’s landscape. Little of it had malice back then, it’s so weird how things change. This movie was still enjoyable and the special effects held up. MJF is always a charmer. The movie might have scary elements for the light hearted but it’s otherwise a fun ghost movie.

Just what I ordered!

Festival of lights explain heart of this film . Comic con collection of care .

I remember seeing this movie as a kid, but watched it again this Halloween after seeing the Corridor Crew mention it on an episode of "VFX Artists React".This movie is a Halloween classic! Produced by Robert Zemeckis, Directed by Peter Jackson, effects by Weta, starring Michael J. Fox alongside other great actors like Jake Busey, Jeffery Combs, and Dee Wallace to name a few!A compelling story with great acting. The effects have aged exceedingly well considering this was made in 1996. It's got those good old school horror-comedy vibes that any 90's kid will immediately recognize.

I just got through watching the Director's Cut of "The Frighteners." I have to say first off that this is one of my favorite films of all time. I don't particularly like horror films (I don't like to be scared) and so when this movie came out at the theater my sister tried to get me to see it and I refused because I thought it would scare me.Needless to say when it came out on VHS she talked me into watching it and I regretted not going with her to see it in the theater. The story is unique and well told.I have to admit that there are some small gaps in the plot that may leave questions in your mind if you watch the original release (especially if you watch it more than once because you always catch more the second time around), but I never found it enough to be that distracting. Part of this comes from them trying to cut the film down to less than two hours. The Director's Cut answers a lot of these questions and I watched the entire thing. It was definitely worth buying and I enjoyed it. All the behind the scenes stuff was fantastic.I could go on about the story, but I'm more of a Visual Effects person and so I think that for me, that's also why I like this movie so much. At the time the effects that they used were revolutionary. Many of the effects, such as the ghost crawling under the carpet in the beginning utilized proprietary code that was written specifically for this movie. Also the compositing was awesome. There were only a couple of spots in the movie where I could tell that the lighting wasn't quite right, and that was out of well over five hundred visual effects shots. To keep this in perspective, this movie was being filmed around the same time the first "Toy Story" was released, so that was the level of computer generated imagery that they had to work with. I think that they had fewer errors in their work than "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" that was just released. I saw more incorrect lighting and bad animation in "Narnia" than in "The Frighteners." It just goes to show you that advanced technology does not always make a better movie.Also, the release of this movie was pushed up by four months, which caused them to rush with wrapping up production. The DVD is also well worth buying if you're at all interested in film making, visual effects or any similar field. The documentary has a ton of behind-the-scenes footage, a tour of the early WETA computer and props department, and three full compositing breakdowns that show how they put the special effects together.I wouldn't say that you should buy this movie if you haven't seen it because everyone's tastes are different, but I would definitely borrow or rent it so you can decide whether you want it or not. Before the Director's cut was released, the original release on DVD was selling on eBay for thirty dollars or more because it was out-of-print and people were desparate to find it. I wound up paying nearly twenty for a used copy. Obviously this movie has a big cult following at any rate and that makes me happy, because I think that this film has been overlooked and underrated. It is definitely on my list of best movies of all time.

My friend has a copy and we watched near Halloween. I’d never seen it before! It’s pretty good!

Very good.

good video

Although I was slightly annoyed with the packaging (though I'm a neat freak with DVDS and any risk of scratches is on my radar) the set is incredibly impressive, the behind the scenes documentary is incredibly detailed and fits perfectly with a film more people should know about.

must say this steelbook is very nice the back is brill, the film its self is top pitcher and sound with dc running 10 mins longer recommend for any collection, m j fox is brill in this none stop action comedy.

Good product, arrived in good condition except the inside it was written. But in general a good purchase!