The Frighteners

When Lucy is freezing Frank down, the dial she turns is color-coded light blue to dark blue (cold to colder).

Moments later, when Dammers turns up, the dial is on a previously non-existent red setting.

When Ray and Lucy are walking Frank out of their home, we hear the sound of Frank's toy gun being used when it is actually not.

Also at that same moment we hear the sound of shoes on a hard floor when Ray and Lucy are wearing socks and walking on carpet.

After Frank crashes through Ray's fence, he deliberately backs out over a garden gnome, crushing its head.

In the next shot, Ray is holding the intact head while screaming at Frank.

A squib can be seen on Frank's arm when Dammers shoots him.

Director 'Peter Jackson (I)' (qv) makes his cameo appearance as the pierced punk, and then disappears between shots.

Frank's breakfast cereal changes from multi-colored Lucky Charms to bluish-purple Boo Berry between shots.

Both boxes can be seen in the background.

During the scene in the museum the two guards fire at least 45 shots from their automatic pistols without reloading.

When Milton Dammers screams, "I'm wearing a lead breastplate!" and rips open his shirt, his tie is hanging nearly straight down.

When we cut back to him, his tie is tossed over his shoulder, while both of his hands are still holding his shirt open.

When Frank is recognized by the wealthy woman in the big house, the newspaper she holds, misspells "Psychic" as "Psycic.

" When the bed starts shaking with Lucy on it the lifting and shaking equipment under the bed is clearly visible.

(at around 1h 40 mins) When Frank and Lucy are hidden behind the shelf from Patricia, a wire can be spotted on the back of her dress, as she run past the screen to the left.

When Frank is in the freezer just before he "dies" he is shown from above and has on shoes.

After Dammers takes Lucy and Frank's spirit leaves his body the same downward shot has him with no shoes visible.

When Frank reaches over to pull Ray out of the grave, workers are shoveling dirt into the hole, but as Frank pulls Ray out, there is no one near the grave.

When Ray hits the possessed doll with a pillow, the stand used to hold it up is clearly visible.

Ray's ghost runs past a sign saying "Lyttelton Liquor.

" Lyttelton, New Zealand is playing fictitious Fairwater, California.

We can say that within the movie, Lyttelton is the name of the store, not the town.

Bartlett refers to Ukrainian serial killer 'Andrei Chikatilo' (qv) as "the Russian cannibal creep.

" When Frank goes to the Lynskey house he said it was 'spontaneous recurrent psychokinesis', but when he goes to another case he calls it 'recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis'.

Since he's a con man, he has no use for consistency.

When the eyes of Jeffrey Combs (Dammers) are shown in extreme close-ups, the edges of his contact lenses (which were probably used to make the actor's eyes darker) are clearly visible.

When Frank is having breakfast talking to his ghost buddies early in the film, the background (Lyttelton, New Zealand) shows the location at sunset, not sunrise.

In order to divert his audience's attention from a plot that has more holes than a sieve (including a whole scene which the hero blandly tells us in the concluding wind-up that didn't happen at all), Peter Jackson not only directs this one at a terrific pace, but throws more special effects into the pot than we've ever seen in our lives. All the players struggle with inconsistently written roles.

Wow! Just watched this movie and what a trip it was!!

Accused of murder, a small-town psychic charlatan learns that his skills in dealing with the deceased are put to the test for real when the murder spree continues despite everything he can do to stop it and must keep the spirit from harming his friends.This here turned out to be quite an infuriating and quite troubling if somewhat interesting effort.

The Frighteners is a fun little movie from the mid-90s. It has an pleasing mix of stars who hit their stride in the 80s (Fox,Wallace, and Ermey) and others who count this as among their first works (Alvarado, Busey, McBride).

Una película muy bien realizada, con una idea clara de lo que se quería lograr. Los fenómenos paranormales tan debatidos y estudiados, vistos de una manera en ocasiones divertida y en otras de forma escalofriante, se mezclan muchos temores y sentimientos al ver esta película.

This movie has the perfect balance for the keeps you on the edge of your seat and light-hearted comedy brought by well flushed out characters. Super entertaining and does not take itself too seriously even though it'll scare the shit out of you.

I remember my older brother showing me this movie when it first came out. I was younger and had a very vivid imagination so it scared the hell out of me.

The effects are VERY dated and the comedic writing feels very 90's. I got to this late admittedly, but it hasn't aged well as I've heard very good things about this movie and was excited to see it.

The special effects have not dated well. It looks full of CGI .