The Frighteners

Nach einem Unfall verfügt Frank Banister (Michael J. Fox) über übernatürliche Kräfte: Er kann plötzlich mit den Geistern Verstorbener kommunizieren. Geschickt nutzt er sein Talent, um als Geisterjäger Leute übers Ohr zu hauen, denn die Geister, die er angeblich jagt, sind eigentlich Kumpels von ihm (echt genial ist dieser Opa, dem dauernd die Kinnlade runterfällt!). Doch die Idylle wird jäh getrübt, als eine schreckliche Mordserie die Stadt erschüttert. Das FBI schickt Fox Mulders Stiefbruder (kleiner Scherz, sorry), Special Agent Milton Dammers (Jeffrey Combs), um den Fall zu klären. Es stellt sich heraus, daß hier dunkle Mächte im Spiel sind, gegen die Franks netten Poltergeister harmlos wirken. Als der Killer, dessen Opfer alle eine Zahl auf der Stirn tragen, auch Franks Freundin bedrohen, beginnt eine Verfolgungsjagd auf Leben und Tod... Wem der Name Peter Jackson noch nicht genügt, um für überdurchschnittliche Qualität zu bürgen, dem sei gesagt: diese geniale Parodie auf Akte X und Ghostbusters darf man auf keinen Fall verpassen, auch wenn Jeffrey Combs hier im Nazi-Look ein echt durchgeknalltes Arschloch spielt (oder gerade deswegen?)!

Jeffrey Combs über seine Rolle in "The Frighteners":

"He's [Milton Dammers] an FBI agent who specializes in cult and sects. [...] He's like the legal version of a person who get's sent to prison and is ruined. He's put himself, in the name of God and country, into some hideous situations that have truely warped him over the years. When you look in his eyes, there are just two black, beady balls. There's no color in them. Peter [Jackson] and I came to the conclusion that some time ago, while working undercover, in order to show allegiance to those cults, he participated in their activities. And he's never quite come back. He's really a troubled fellow. And very funny, too, I hope, because we've done some really funny things. Peter is absolutely remarkable at picking out details that convey a universal character. [...] He's got his demons in the closet and he's scarred for life - figuratively and literally. He's got some odd notions of how to do his job. [...] He's one of these people who's really so convinced, through his own weird algebraic parapsycholoy, that he can find a justification for why people are doing things or why things are occuring the way they are that has no basis in reality.

When I went to the audition, the first Peter said to me that he's a real Herbert West [Re-Animator] fan, which was reassuring, but I'd done everything wrong - I don't know why. I decided to wear glasses into the audition instead of my usual contact lenses, because I thought that that would give me a certain bookishness, a gawkiness or something - a little more character. The second thing Peter asked was if I could take off my glasses..."

aus: Fangoria #154

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