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The Frighteners

Name: The Frighteners
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Duration: 110 min
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs

1996110 minHorror · Comedy

★ 7 / 10 TMDb rating · 1,815 votes

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IMDb: 7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 65%
Metacritic: 52/100

Awards

3 wins & 17 nominations total

OMDb · Sep 14, 2026

What is The Frighteners about?

Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.