Peter Jackson may be best known as the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but before that he was a well established director of horror comedies. The Frighteners may not be nearly a gory as Dead Alive (1992) (aka Braindead) or his alien indie Bad Taste (1987), but it is just as hilarious. It also the film that made some huge technological leaps in film making when it came to special effects, and actually made the Lord of the Rings project possible! It also firmly established New Zealand as a top notch alternative place to make movies, and, for the first time, Jackson's production company WETA started getting business as go-to guys and gals outside of Jackson's own projects for all sorts of special effects and costume manufacture. All of that makes this little ghost story a pretty historical little film.
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