A family whose suburban home is haunted by evil forces must come together to rescue their youngest daughter after the apparitions take her captive (www.imdb.com).
Director: Gil Kenan (City of Ember, Monster House)
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Saxon Sharbino, Kyle Catlett, Kennedi Clements, Jared Harris
Remakes are a farce. We're given a second, sometimes a third helping of the same film. Lucky us! Look at Spider-Man as an example. Three times in 15 years is disrespectful to the franchise. At least 33 years have passed since the original Poltergeist. MGM studios have ushered this film to a new generation of viewers, who perhaps aren't familiar with the 1982 classic. Unfortunately, 2015's new look isn't one to be excited, or even frightened about. Haunted houses are dull and an overused prop within the horror world. The Bowen family could leave the house at once if it weren't for their daughter's disappearance. Evil apparitions take her to a parallel universe. Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt seek the help of an expert (Jared Harris) to get her back. This composition has been rinsed and repeated many times before. The production levels are high, the dark lit interior, the creepy toys and the sound effects are astonishing, but struggle to conceive the one, desired reaction all horrors are built for. Sam Rockwell's a light in the darkness, providing a down-to-earth personality in a movie full of mundaneness.
2/5
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