Amazon.com Essentials:
One movie lover's nightmare is another's raucous joyride, and
this special effects-laden horror comedy is bound to split both camps
right down the middle. (Or, as Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video
Guide puts it, "definitely not for all tastes but a wild time for
those who get into it.") Michael J. Fox plays a psychic investigator
who can actually see ghosts, and lives with a trio of undead spirits
who scare people to promote Fox's ghost-busting business. In a town
infamous for serial killings, a new series of deaths prompts Fox to
induce his own out-of-body experience so he can battle death in a
spirit-plagued netherworld where evil reigns supreme--or something
like that. So much happens in this chaotic film that you might feel
like you're watching several movies at once--a slasher pic, a
supernatural thriller, and a black comedy all rolled into a nonstop
showcase for grisly makeup and a dozen varieties of special
effects. It's an odd but wildly inventive film from New Zealand
director Peter Jackson, who earned critical acclaim for his previous
film Heavenly
Creatures and would later create the ingenious
pseudo-documentary Forgotten Silver. --Jeff Shannon
Amazon.com Essentials:
One movie lover's nightmare is another's raucous joyride, and
this special effects-laden horror comedy is bound to split both camps
right down the middle. (Or, as Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video
Guide puts it, "definitely not for all tastes but a wild time for
those who get into it.") Michael J. Fox plays a psychic investigator
who can actually see ghosts, and lives with a trio of undead spirits
who scare people to promote Fox's ghost-busting business. In a town
infamous for serial killings, a new series of deaths prompts Fox to
induce his own out-of-body experience so he can battle death in a
spirit-plagued netherworld where evil reigns supreme--or something
like that. So much happens in this chaotic film that you might feel
like you're watching several movies at once--a slasher pic, a
supernatural thriller, and a black comedy all rolled into a nonstop
showcase for grisly makeup and a dozen varieties of special
effects. It's an odd but wildly inventive film from New Zealand
director Peter Jackson, who earned critical acclaim for his previous
film Heavenly
Creatures and would later create the ingenious
pseudo-documentary Forgotten Silver. --Jeff Shannon
