Movie of the Day – Dead Alive

To think, there was a time before The Hobbit, before King Kong and before The Lord of the Rings Trilogy when Peter Jackson wasn’t making this major blockbusters and employing half of New Zealand  he was actually making schlocky, over the top horror movies.  I mean I loved The Frighteners, like a lot, but it’s is amazing to see Peter Jackson’s earlier work, something a lot of people wouldn’t associate with his current body of work.  But for me, he will always be the guy who made a priest kick ass for the lord.  Today’s post is the ultra bloody affair, Dead Alive.

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Movie of the Day – The Frighteners

A forgotten gem, which happens to be one of my favorite Michael J. Fox movies (next to Back to the Future series, obviously) is the horror, comedy movie The Frighteners.  Along with Michael J. Fox, this was also Peter Jackson’s fifth movie before going off to make the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.  Sadly, this movie ended up being bittersweet as it was Michael J. Fox’s last leading role in a live action movie.  The Frighteners is one of those movies that almost just flat out didn’t get made.  The production of the movie was marred with time constraints and up until that time, it required a large amount of effects shots done for the movie.  The distributors wanted the movie out early, but a series of fortunate events ended up helping out the movie and giving us what we see today.

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