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The Frighteners (NZ/US 1996) |
Humour and horror. Set in the small US town of Fairwater, Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) exorcises houses that his three ghost friends have haunted.
Director: Peter Jackson
Original music by Danny Elfman
The Mutton Birds - "Don't Fear The Reaper" (D. Roeser)
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Soundtrack album |
from: amazon.com album soundtrack listing CD, 1996
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Other albums |
Appears on Australian, Canadian and Japanese releases of "Envy Of Angels"
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Singles |
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"Don't Fear The
Reaper", Aus, 1996, EMI, 7243 8 74096 2 0 |
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"She's Been
Talking" NZ, 1996, EMI, 8770432 |
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Notes |
There is a minor character called Harry Sinclair played by Desmond Kelly. (The real Harry Sinclair appeared in Peter Jackson's Braindead (1992))
Peter Jackson, who had worked on a Front Lawn film, asked the Mutton Birds to record a cover of the Blue Oyster Cult song for the end of the movie. See: (Real Groove)
Filmed in Lyttelton, near Christchurch, (Fairwater) and Wellington, New Zealand.
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Video - PAL, NTSC,
widescreen
DVD - widescreen
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Classification |
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The Frighteners (NZ/US 1996) - The Frighteners soundtrack (Internet Movie Database)
amazon.com album soundtrack listing
Frighteners - 1996 (New Zealand Films on VHS tape and DVD)
Weta Ltd - special effects for The Frighteners
The Real Groove interview describing how the Mutton Birds came to record "Don't Fear The Reaper" is no longer online, but it is available at All Our Times Have Come
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Sources of information |
links; New Zealand Film 1912-96
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