Corrected entry: When the Ragdoll grabs onto Lucy's shirt, you can see it's hands have been sewn to the shirt, it seems this was done to make it look like it's gripping and pulling it.
Super Grover
14th Nov 2004
The Frighteners (1996)
2nd Apr 2004
The Frighteners (1996)
Corrected entry: In the posh woman's house Frank is shown a newspaper with a picture of him at a funeral on the front. You'll have to be quick but you can see that the picture is of him and Lucy at Ray's funeral, which of course hasn't happened yet.
Correction: The photograph on the front page of the Gazette that Mrs. Waterhouse holds up is the photo that Steve's partner snapped at the funeral for Chuck Hughes at the start of the film, as Frank handed out his business cards to the mourners. The actual photo shows Frank wearing a blue dress shirt and tie, giving his business card to a brunette with a hat - but it is clearly not Lucy Lynskey, with a man behind them holding an umbrella, as it was raining during that funeral. That brunette is also visible at the funeral, as Ms. Rhys-Jones says in voiceover, "..Thirty years later as the death toll steadily rises, it appears the grim reaper has once again..." To further stress the point, the day of Ray Lynskey's funeral, Frank was wearing a tee shirt under an open collar red shirt, unlike the photo.
27th Aug 2001
The Frighteners (1996)
Corrected entry: When Frank goes into the freezer he is wearing shoes. Then when he's a ghost he is barefoot for whatever reason. Then he goes to heaven and he has shoes. Then he goes back to his body and he's barefoot again.
Correction: You're confusing two separate events. When Frank walks into the freezer at the laboratory he's wearing shoes, but by the time Frank's spirit leaves his body (many shots later) his shoe is visible in the bottom right corner of the screen, which means he took off his shoes before he lost consciousness. Since he 'died' with his shoes off, that is why he is barefoot the entire time he's a spirit the first time and still barefoot when Lucy revives a much frozen Frank with the defibrillator on the lab floor. Later, when Frank (alive) and Lucy go to the Fairwater Sanatorium to sprinkle Bartlett's ashes in the chapel, Patricia kills Frank and he dies for the second time. So, since he wears shoes when he dies, his spirit wears shoes when he drags Patricia's spirit as he goes towards heaven. When he descends back towards earth and after he opens his eyes with Lucy, he is, of course, still wearing shoes.
2nd Apr 2004
The Frighteners (1996)
Corrected entry: Director Peter Jackson makes a cameo as the punk Frank bumps into coming out of the newspaper office. A nice touch, but Jackson actually vanishes and reappears between the following camera angles.
Correction: When pierced Peter Jackson bumps into Frank, it is only in this close-up shot that he and his Grim Reaper tee shirt, are visible. In the next shot facing Frank, after he stares at the tee shirt, Frank starts to cross the street. In the third shot facing the Gazette newspaper building, the pierced guy is gone, though he did have enough time to 'mysteriously' vanish up the block between shots and he does not reappear in any other shot.
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Correction: This would be a great mistake, but for one fact, when Raggedy Anne's hand is attached to Lucy's pajama top we do not see any thread or safety pin joining the hand to the top, not even a bit of it. Though we know that is what the crew did to achieve the effect, since nothing is actually visible it cannot be a deemed a legitimate mistake.
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