I feel that the biggest attribute of The Frighteners lies on the fact that it's a movie that is as serious as it is ridiculous. You see whenever you are about to say that this movie is pure fun something happens and gets deep and vice versa. And I think that this is the epitome of comedy horror. Because that's what comedy horror means. A movie that stays a bit ambiguous. You don't know when to laugh and when to get scared. And thus The Frighteners tell a story that is a wonderful, brilliant mishmash of funny and scary moments. On the surface there is laughter, but underneath there is sadness, grief and terror. Peter Jackson might be the king of comedy horror, he has done it again back in 1992 with his terrific zombie splatter comedy Braindead. He knows the recipe for the good comedy horror, because he is a great bartender who mixes the correct doses of the ingredients so his movie become an inseparable cocktail of pure and untamable cinema art.
The Frighteners is a movie that plays with you constantly. As a matter of fact I would put it, it fucks with you constantly. The one moment is making you happy and the other you feel that you are watching another film. That game, that brilliant, playful act that Peter has build make the journey something that you don't forget the time the film ends. Because The Frighteners is from the movies that you take with you when you go to sleep and you think loudly, "what the fuck did I see?" Jackson is a man of indisputable talent and while most people know him from The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit, his career before them, shows that he is a filmmaker who is not afraid to really play with the audience. Because if there is one thing that the audience asks from the filmmaker is to really take them on a ride with a roller-coaster, from the ones that you find in amusement parks and they are called "the train of horror".
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