The Frighteners
Alvarado's next film was 1995's "The Perez Family", co-starring Alfred Molina, Anjelica Huston and Marisa Tomei. The next year saw the release of "The Frighteners", Peter Jackson's horror/comedy film about a con artist who sees ghosts, and "The Christmas Tree", the directorial debut of actress Sally Field. Alvarado is better known for the first, but "The Frighteners" wasn't hugely popular during its initial release. In the making-of documentary included with the revamped DVD, Alvarado admitted to enduring bruises because of the active, violent scenes in the movie and to being "cursed"; an ice cream truck from a local New Zealand vendor would go by playing "Greensleeves" every time Jackson did a close-up on her and make her break character.