Before he made 'The Lord of the Rings', Peter Jackson cast Fox in a horror-comedy, and the two had a ghostly good time.
There are many roles that come to mind when it comes to the topic of Michael J. Fox's acting career. He is, of course, most recognized for his leading role as Marty McFly in the iconic Back to the Future trilogy: three films released between 1985 and 1990, with all standing as some of the most beloved sci-fi comedies of all time.
As previously mentioned, the film has Jackson finding some middle ground between the kinds of movies that defined his early filmmaking career throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and those that defined his 2000s and onwards output. It plays around with the kind of tone found in movies like Bad Taste and Braindead: a very distinct balance of horror and comedy.
Fox ends up being a big reason why The Frighteners has endured and now holds up as one of the best horror movies of the 1990s. Before this 1996 film, he'd essentially done a little bit of everything. He'd led a comedic sci-fi trilogy with Back to the Future, been a lead character in a long-running sitcom, had starred in another supernatural movie already with 1985's Teen Wolf, and had proven himself capable of less comedic roles with Casualties of War.
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