Poltergeist

The theme of the original haunted fantasy used in a contemporary haunted house horror-movie template. Unfortunately, it is used in a lazy, unoriginal way where the volume of the sound is more important than the innovation of story clichés. The production quality is good, but the character of the exorcist required a bigger (and more expensive) actor than Jared Harris. The way to “the other side” to save someone was done better in Insidious, without the need for a load of digital effects. (06/08/2015)

An unsuccessful remake of an already flawed classic (as they say, like father like son, so it applies here infinitely). It's a great pity that a film with such an enticing and attractive trailer turned out so blandly. I was looking forward to the remake, since I didn't like the original even as a young boy. I guess at the age of 12, where I had only 30 horror movies to my name, Poltergeist was one of the worst, but the remake didn't fare much better. All those who complained the Insidious 3 had too many jump-scares, well I'm complaining here because Poltergeist only has one and there is no atmosphere to speak of. It's weirdly colourful and digital and there's not much fun to speak of either. The clown and the drill scenes were nice, the rest was worth shit. 40% (06/24/2015)

I never liked the original film and the remake shows me once again how unnecessary remakes are. This film brings absolutely nothing new to the table except more fancy special effects. But remaking the entire film just for that seems like a very weak reason to me. I wasn't having fun, I wasn't scared, but I was bored. An annoying movie I don't want to see again. (07/19/2015)