MJF Pick of the Day: Frighten Yourself

In my opinion, The Frighteners (1996), is an extremely underrated movie. I've picked it for MJF Week to try to encourage more people to go out and rent it...oh, I mean NETFLIX it. (Or stream or borrow or whatever it is that you do.)

The Frighteners is perfectly eerie, spooky, and gets down right...um, well...FRIGHTENING. After losing his wife, MJF is able to see ghosts, befriends them, and then gets them to haunt unassuming people, so he can make money "ghost busting" their homes. Seems stupid, right? Well, then it gets downright creepy and gruesome, when the ghost of a mass murderer comes back to continue his work. The flashbacks are rather terrifying, too. It's MJF at his unassuming best: Who would ever guess that Alex P. Keaton would play a con-man who sees ghosts and has to return an unleashed serial killer to hell?

The movie also boasts a stellar cast. In addition to MJF, you'll also find:

• flipping scary Jake Busey (seriously, he shouldn't be allowed on screen with his freaky visage)


• E.T.'s Mom (as she's described in another Halloween staple, Scream), Dee Wallace


• John Astin, the father of another 80s idol I may have met


• Oh, and it's directed by Peter Jackson...yes, THAT Peter Jackson.

Please, check this one out if you're an MJF fan and love a good ghost story, like I do.