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The Frighteners
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2414
- IMDb #1972
- Google retired #2003
- Rotten Tomatoes #2598
- Metacritic #2481
- Letterboxd #2291
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3066
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2491
- Metacritic Critics #3233
- Metacritic Audience #1120
- Criticker #1537
- Douban #1605
- Kinopoisk #992
- AlloCiné #1764
- Trakt #2137
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 51, highest is Google on 86. Critics average 58, everyone else 72.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →After a tragic car accident, a man gains the ability to see and communicate with ghosts. He uses this talent to run a small-time ghostbusting scam. His life takes a dark turn when he discovers a supernatural force is killing people and marking their homes with a number. Teaming up with a skeptical woman, he must use his unique skills to stop the spectral killer.
Details
- Director
- Peter Jackson
- Writers
- Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson
- Studio
- WingNut Films, Universal Pictures
- Released
- 19 July 1996
- Country
- New Zealand, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $29.4M
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