10 Craziest Ways Horror Movie Characters Have Returned From The Dead
9. The Frighteners - By "Being Happy"
While he had already directed offerings such as Bad Taste, Braindead, and Heavenly Creatures, it was 1996's The Frighteners that put Peter Jackson on the radar of many casual moviegoers. A horror-comedy headlined by Michael J. Fox, The Frighteners ticked so many of the right boxes on its way to becoming a true cult classic.
Jackson would become synonymous with The Lord of the Rings and his epic six movies set in that world, yet a certain section of people still hold The Frighteners on a pedestal as the New Zealand filmmaker's finest achievement.
After Jake Busey and Dee Wallace's twisted twosome are finally sent packing to Hell during the film's final acts, The Frighteners finds Michael J. Fox's Frank Bannister in the afterlife, talking to his deceased wife. It's a poignant, heartfelt moment, and it's the instructions of his dead partner which see Frank being able to return to the land of the living.
Angela Bloomfield's Debra instructs her husband to simply be happy. And with that, Frank is resurrected and able to move on with a life alongside his new partner, Lucy Lynskey.