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Poltergeist

TSG Entertainment

Ghost House Pictures

Vertigo Entertainment

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Fox 2000 Pictures

United States of America

English

Sam Rockwell

Rosemarie DeWitt

Saxon Sharbino

Kyle Catlett

Kennedi Clements

Jared Harris

Nicholas Braun

Jane Adams

Susan Heyward

Karen Ivany

Patrick Garrow

Soma Bhatia

L.A. Lopes

Doug MacLeod

Eve Crawford

John Stoneham Jr.

Kathryn Greenwood

Molly Kidder

Emily Brobst

Larissa Stadnichuk

Gil Kenan

David Lindsay-Abaire

John Powers Middleton

Harold Parker

Becki Cross Trujillo

Victoria Burrows

Andrea Wertheim

Lisa Chandler

Scot Boland

Kalina Ivanov

Martin Gendron

Drew Longland

Barbara Szeman

Delphine White

Robert Tapert

Bob Murawski

Laird McMurray

Marco Bianco

Roy Lee

Jeff Betancourt

Sam Raimi

J.R. Young

Javier Aguirresarobe

Skyler Wilson

John A. Amicarella

Helga Rossi

Kurt Van Der Basch

Mark Lawton

Michael Innanen

Patricia Larman

Simeon Wilkins

Alex Armbruster

Ross Norcross

Nicolas Hernandez

Kerry Joseph Blackman

Bryan Godwin

Owen Carroll

Charles Baden

Marc Streitenfeld

Duncan Campbell

Dana Howes

Miro Dziwik

John Mackenzie

Krista Burbidge

Carol Hartwick

Leslie Sebert

Vincent Sullivan

Ken Clark

Burton J. LeBlanc

Rebecca Field

Sorin Popescu

Michael Galbraith

Kerry Hayes

Corinna Schmitt-Porsia

Chris M. Jacobson

Steve Tushar

Violaine Roussel-Bongiovanni

Brian van de Valk

David Williams

Ele Bardha

Robert Cochrane

Glen Goodchild

Samuel Craven

Mongo Andrews

Nick Spadafora

Vic Rigler

Christina Wise

Karina Benesh

Dean Wright

Tim McElcheran

Dan Wladyka

Marti D. Humphrey

Angèle Buffin

Jennifer Renaud

Nicholas Elwell

Richard 'Rico' Emerson

Cameron Steenhagen

Ariel Velasco-Shaw

Tom Starnes

Roy Obermeier

Russell Farmarco

Jussi Tegelman

Martin Allan Kloner

Christian Drennan

Roslyn Hanchard

Steve Switzer

Greg Winhall

Adam Burnett

Sebastian Meyer

Jason Hurst

Jackson Yu

Tony Haspel

Lars Vinther

Angelo Colavecchia

Pat Cassin

Willard Overstreet

Zevi Wolmark

It’s not the worst remake of all time, but it’s just ordinary. It’s bland, lifeless, vanilla, and feels like what the Lifetime Channel in America would do to a remake of the Tobe Spielberg classic haunting film. I think the only reason Gil Kenan was hired for this movie was because the movie is based around a monster house and he depicted a monster so well in his last film that the job only seemed like a no brainer. The problem is Kenan forgets to produce likable characters and interesting scares during the process of producing an evil possessed house. - _Zevi Wolmark_

Reno

> Would have been a better film if it was an original.

Unnecessary to compare this with the original and I tried, but impossible to avoid it since it's an official remake. Everything, from the house to frame by frame, all the scenes looked the same, except the cast and it's set in the present world with the daily life's modern gadgets. If you had not seen the 80s film, then there's a little chance you might like it. Though it was not a serious horror movie, or a scary movie to consider, still quite enjoyable like a dark comedy in parts. But I recommend the old one.

Really? Sam Rockwell? He did not fit in the role, just okay though. And the kids, did not impress me as like the original movie. The only upgrade in this new version was the technology, CRT monitors to LED kind of stuffs. I expected a major, at least a bit alteration in the story or the screenplay that sets in a different circumstances and the location. That could have been a lot better. Disappoints for those who loved the first version. However, that movie deserved to be remade, and I did not think it would end like this. Hoping for a better sequel, but I'm already feeling that would end in the hands of the second string cast and crew which could be a cheap horror-thrill.

5/10

I had huge reservations about watching this remake, which I felt was completely unnecessary. It wasn't as bad as I had anticipated, and that the bad reviews at the time gave me the impression I should fear or avoid watching it. The special effects were pretty good, and Sam Rockwell, Jared Harris and Jane Adams (how wonderful it was to see her again, after her exceptional work in 'Happiness'!) sold the film for me. I knew what to expect after liking, but not loving, director Gil Kenan's earlier animated 'Monster House', but I was intrigued how his energetic directing would transfer to live-action work.

I think they could have made it more suspenseful and scary, but I'm not really sure that was their intention. I think they were going for a family experience with some thrills, chills and laughs...such as the recent 'Ghostbusters' remake was going for. If that was the case, then in that regard it was quite successful. I'm looking forward to re-watching this eventually with my 13-year-old son, horror-film aficionado, Julian, who like me adored the original.

If I was to make the perfect 'Poltergeist' film, I would have taken the same exact Steven Spielberg script and simply updated the special effects. I think that would have been a more successful approach.

Per Gunnar Jonsson

The movie blurb is written by some 20th Century Fox representative. I would guess that the person in question has not even watched the original movie. “Legendary film makers”? What a load of bull! These people have not produced anything really worth watching and this movie certainly do not improve on that score. I mean, how dumb are these people from 20th Century Fox? I certainly hope the audience are not dumb enough to fall for this obvious lie. Judging from the, well deserved mediocre score on various review sites I guess they did not.

Anyway, as for the movie. It is a bleak (cheap) shadow of the original. It has absolutely zero of the charm that the original movie had and, most importantly, none of the characters had anything of the charisma that the original characters had. The father is a total dumbass and an irresponsible at that. The mother could by just any Hollywood style housewife.

When you finally think that something interesting would happen, that is when the ghost hunter enters the scene, it just falls flat again. He is just totally lacking in appeal. He is neither a bad ass nor is he mysterious or anything else that makes him worth watching.

There are just so much things wrong with the story as well. How can this guy afford and get a one for a house when he apparently do not seem to have a job? He even manages to go for another house in the end after his original one apparently got shredded. How bloody dumb is the script writer? In the original it was a new neighbourhood which explained the “troubles”. In this one it is not which means that the script writer obviously had zero understanding of the original plot which brings us back to the same question again. What the f…?

There are some half decent CGI scenes in this movie but the same can be said for a lot of things coming out of the movie industry nowadays (well with the exception of SyFy productions of course).

I would say that as a TV-movie it would have been above average. As a remake of a classic it totally falls flat. I am happy that I watched it at home and did not spend time going to a theatre watching it.

Lame horror.

<em>'Poltergeist'</em> offers nothing. It may not be an absolutely awful watch, but there's nothing about this that's good unfortunately. The story is largely predictable and plain, none of the cast give anything close to a performance that's worth remembering. There aren't many, if any, scares either - not great for a film in this genre.

As for the onscreen talent, it's slim pickings... not even Jared Harris' late appearance could save things. If I had to pick a standout, away from Harris, it would be Sam Rockwell. The two youngest kids, Kyle Catlett and Kennedi Clements, aren't terrible in fairness.

Not one I'll be revisiting. Yawnful.

Poltergeist Official Trailer #1 (2015) - Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt Movie HD

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