The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1996 features our producer David Rosen’s personal pick, Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners. Directed and co-written (with Fran Walsh) by Peter Jackson and starring Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Jeffrey Combs, Peter Dobson, Dee Wallace, Chi McBride and Jim Fyfe, The Frighteners was a box-office disappointment but helped launch Jackson’s career in Hollywood.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-frighteners-1996), Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-07-19-ca-25543-story.html), and Ken Tucker in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1996/07/26/frighteners/).

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