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Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) is a con man whom poses as a paranormal investigator whom cons people to thinking they're being menaced by ghosts so he can finish constructing his unfinished house. But, what everybody doesn't know is that Frank has the ability to communicate with ghosts and with help from the ghosts, he uses them as part of his con game by spooking Frank's victims and forcing them to call him. As snobbish newspaper editor Magda Rees-Jones (Elizabeth Hawthorne) sets out to bring Frank down. Eccentric, mad and paranoid FBI agent Milton Dammers (Jeffrey Combs) arrives in town to assist the local police in investigating the random deaths of local residents whom appear to be dying from fatal heart attacks and Dammers believes they did not die of heart attacks, but were murdered by Frank and he believes Frank is a killer and that Frank murdered his wife Debra (Angela Bloomfield) whom died in a tragic car accident 6 years earlier. As Magda-Rees Jones also dies from a fatal heart attack and Frank is arrested and interrogated by Dammers whom doesn't believe Frank's claim that he can communicate with ghosts. Dr. Lucy Lynskey (Trini Alvarado) one of Frank's victims whose arrogant and hostile husband Ray (Peter Dobson) also died from a fatal heart attack believes Frank is innocent and believe Frank can communicate with ghosts visits Frank. But, Frank and Lucy soon discover that deceased serial murderer Johnny Bartlett (Jake Busey) has returned as a Grim Repeaer-like demon and is continuing his legendary murder spree and is behind the fatal heart attacks of Ray Lynskey, Magda-Rees Jones and the other residents and with help from his ghost friends, Frank sets out to stop Bartlett and protect Lucy whom is one of Bartlett's intended victims and Patricia Bradley (Dee Wallace), Johnny's mentally unstable lover, whom is under house arrest and is frequently haunted and tormented by Bartlett.

Technically, no. But he's clearly supposed to be the same character. In Full Metal Jacket, the character's name is Hartmann. The character's name in this film is Hiles. Also, if as a ghost, you're wearing what you wore when you died, he'd be wearing a tank top and shorts. Not his uniform.

Cyrus is a small-time gangster who died in the 1970's, and Stuart is a young nerd who died in the 1950's.

First of all, there's the well-known R-rated theatrical version but in the UK Peter Jackson's cult classic was censored in order to avoid the BBFC 18 rating. Two scenes were slightly altered. Unfortunately, this master was used for several European DVD releases as well. All cuts were waived for the Director's Cut release.

After it's cinematic release, Peter Jackson created a special Director's Cut that was for many years only available on a special Laserdisc version. Fortunately, this version was later released on DVD and features a cut that runs around 12 minutes longer and offers several extended story sequences and character beats.

Both the Blu-Ray and the 4K UHD restoration contain the theatrical cut and director's cut of the film.