Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, Jim Fyfe, Chi McBride, Dee Wallace Stone, Jeffrey Combs. The long and the short of it is this; throw away any previous version of this films you may have (especially the one released a few years ago with the horrible cover) and get this DVD now. DVD from $15.59 Additional DVD options: Edition Discs Price New from Used from DVD "Please retry" Director's Cut — — — $15.59: … Then you flip the disc over and get to the meat of this Special Edition: “The Making of I cannot begin to tell you how happy that made me on Wednesday night when I sat down to watch this and it just kept going, and going, and going. It's the perfect scam...until Frank finds himself at the center of a dark mystery. Jackson seems to have a knack for knowing exactly what aspects of making a film the audience is interested in, and focuses on those aspects with just the right amount of geek wisdom to keep people hanging on every word.
The Frighteners (Director's Cut) Format: DVD. A brilliant mixture of comedy, horror, and drama filled with (at the time) cutting edge special effects and a brilliant cast all combined to create one of the greatest examples of how right a studio picture can be if it’s in the hands of a genius (i.e., Peter Jackson…). 5.0 out of 5 stars 2 ratings. For Frank Bannister (Michael J.
But he's in cahoots with the very ghosts he promised to evict!
This is the version of Get the latest horror news straight into your inbox!Get the latest horror news straight into your inbox! The storyboards themselves were fantastically drawn, however, so I’m sure you’ll get a kick out of sitting through it. One strange anomaly I found within is the footage they use in clips.
We’ll pretend that, for whatever reason, you’re not familiar with the story…Frank Bannister (Fox) is an empty shell of a man. Okay, I’ve sung the praises of this DVD long enough, I think.
Not the bloopers, not the interviews with the stars, not the deleted scenes… it’s all here, and it’s all done with a crystal-clear new transfer… for the most part. Fox (Actor), Trini Alvarado (Actor), Peter Jackson (Director, Producer, Writer) Frighteners, The: Director’s Cut (DVD) Starring Michael J. That’s partly because the extra 14 minutes or so found in the “Director’s Cut” flesh … But does the ghost story hold up a decade later?
The Frighteners (Director's Cut) Michael J. In fact the only reason I mention it is that it’s the only thing (other than the rather lame DVD menus) that I had any issue with on the DVD.
Sometimes it’s crystal clear, which you can tell came from the DVD anamorphic transfer, while other scenes look as if they’re laserdisc (or worse) quality. The truth of the matter is a bit more complicated, however, and has to do with the spirit of a long-dead serial killer come back to finish the “good work”, as he calls it, and Frank’s the only one who can stop him. I didn’t see Frighteners again until I watched the “Director’s Cut” on laserdisc when it arrived in 1998. The film failed at the box office but has since then gained a cult following.
Not long before director Peter Jackson headed to Middle-earth with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy he directed the horror comedy The Frighteners. Any minute I expected something to be cut out of it (as I had just seen the entire thing from a laserdisc port a few months ago), but nothing is. I managed to convince at least one or two of my group to come along, and of course they loved the hell out of it like pretty much anyone who’s seen has.
Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time.Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time.Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.That’s because not only did Universal give it a new anamorphic transfer, meaning the film has never looked better, but they also brought Peter in to film brand-new intros for both the movie, which now includes the extra 14 minutes of footage that was taken out of the theatrical print, and “The Making of I’m so glad this film has finally gotten the kind of DVD release it deserves, not only because it’s great to finally have a definitive version of it on disc, but because it allows me to talk about just how much I love I remember I was one of the only people among my group of friends that had any interest in seeing it at all when it was released back in 1996. Director’s Cut (122 min.)