“We’re in the mood for a little vivisection.”
We’ve all heard the saying “less is more.” Marie Kondo championed this minimalist sentiment when convincing us to rid our homes of unwanted items and Coco Chanel lived by the rule of taking one accessory off before leaving the house. We’re not sure Peter Jackson has ever heard this saying as his films tend to be extravaganzas filled with lavish plotting, eccentric characters, and over-the-top effects. And we’re not mad about it. Years before he wowed the world with expansive adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and a mammoth remake of the 1933 classic King Kong, Jackson honed his delightful excesses in the horror genre culminating in the 1996 splatstick comedy The Frighteners.
Michael J. Fox stars as Frank Bannister, a widower blessed – or cursed – with the ability to see the dead. When he runs afoul of a ghostly killer and his surprising accomplice, Frank must team up with his ghoulish buddies and a crush-worthy doctor to stop the numeric killing spree before the body count grows any higher. With perplexing roles by horror royalty and a cartoonish approach to the world of the dead, The Frighteners charms with its 90s nostalgia, perplexes with indulgent characterization, and wins us over with its stunning and sexy female killer.
In a new episode of The Lady Killers, co-hosts Jenn Adams, Sammie Kuykendall, Mae Shults, and Rocco T. Thompson dust off their Ouija boards and rush their ashes to the chapel as they discuss aspirational crones, creepy manors, supernatural kink, and off-putting sidekicks. Is Patricia a villain or the victim of an older man? Why are we so attracted to a murderous Jake Busey? What’s going on in that opening scene and what movie does Jeffrey Combs think he’s in? They’ll count off each of these questions and more as they carve numbers into their foreheads and hop on the express bus to hell in a “more is more” episode on a smokin’ hot killer couple.
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