An impressionable young man finds himself enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy’s parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
Part Michael J. Fox comedy, part gruesome ghost story, Peter Jackson’s 1996 cult classic 'The Frighteners' flopped at the summer box office—but built the foundation for Weta and 'The Lord of the Rings'. Here is why it still rips.