The Frighteners (1996) ****

Take an idea or two from "The X-Files", add a touch of "Twin Peaks", borrow a motif from "The Terminator" and mix it with a large dose of "Natural Born Killers". Then put it in competent hands of Kiwi director Peter Jackson and you've got a masterful horror film - riotously funny, genuinely frightening, constantly surprising and incredibly innovative.