The Frighteners

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Year:	1996
Country of origin:	New Zealand / USA
Director:	Peter Jackson
Genre:	Zany horror comedy….apparently
Starring:	Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado
Rating:	1/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116365/
Tagline:	No Rest for the Wicked.
Favourite line:	None worth mentioning

Right, before I begin I have a confession to make:
I only got twenty five minutes into this, and I had to turn it off.
I had no choice.
It was unbearable.
So the 1 skull rating you see above is only a reflection of the first 1500 seconds, not the duration.
And why did I turn it off?
Because it was painfully, woefully, shockingly bad.
And this is a Peter Jackson movie.
And I love everything else I've seen by him.
But this was dreadful.
Dreadful.
Dreadful.

Here's what I gleaned:
Michael J. Fox is a paranormal investigator who is actually friends with a selection of deceased individuals, who he convinces to haunt people's homes so that they calll him for help.

And that's it.
That's as far as I got.
The ghosts turned up, and I couldn't tolerate it anymore.
If I just use the words wacky and zany, maybe you'll get the idea.
Horrid.
Just horrid