Poltergeist
Eric and Amy Bowen are looking to buy a new house. They are haunted by evil forces must come together to rescue their youngest daughter after the apparitions take her captive. The family begins to leave but they are stopped by the poltergeists, who drag them back into the house and attempt to abduct Maddy again.
1 May 1988, Long Island, New York, USA
26 October 1971, Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
24 August 1961, London, England, UK
21 March 1962, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
1 April 1965, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
5 November 1968, Daly City, California, USA
11 June 1999, Lewisville, Texas, USA
19 November 1982, Georgia, USA
15 February 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
May 28, 2016
'Poltergeist' assembles a very gifted group of people to go through another movie's paces, a cover band you wish would just play their own songs.
May 24, 2015
There's little doubt that nostalgia played a part in Fox's decision to remake Poltergeist, but that's a poor reason for any film's existence and no excuse for how uninspired Gil Kenan's re-imagining of this one turned out.
May 22, 2015
Poltergeist does benefit from briskness-it's actually 20 minutes shorter than Hooper's film-and there is a nice, Evil Dead 2-esque sequence involving a power drill.
May 06, 2016
It's not a fresh re-telling that takes the story to a new level, but there's enough here that's unnerving to keep horror lovers happy.
September 21, 2016
I'm not a hardcore horror fan, so I can't say whether hardcore horror fans will like this movie. But I can say that I think Poltergeist has potential outside the group of people who normally see horror movies.
May 28, 2015
Director Gil Kenan ruins the pacing with too many half-baked, awkwardly staged horror set pieces, but the cast acquit themselves well enough.
May 22, 2015
It's not exactly a scary film, but it does provide an enjoyable ride. It's good fun. But it left me befuddled. A little sad. And a little angry.
June 02, 2016
Poltergeist 2015 is too weak to stand up to the original.
April 06, 2016
Despite [its] reverential treatment, Kenan and producer Sam Raimi manage to serve up an effective supernatural horror film that's capable of standing on its own feet.
May 22, 2015
The new "Poltergeist" might well be the scariest movie 13-or-unders have yet seen, just as the original was for their parents back in 1982.
April 16, 2016
The techno-centric storyline does little to separate it from the last decade of subpar horror.
May 22, 2015
The original film was promoted with the tagline "It knows what scares you." If there was a truth-in-advertising law regarding films, this movie's ad copy would read: "Poltergeist: Meh."
