Poltergeist remake


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Just saw this... can't sleep, clown will eat me...

Actually a pretty damn good remake though. Solid performance from Sam Rockwell as the dad, and I always enjoy seeing Jarred Harris show up. The little girl really reminds me of the girl who played Matilda in the film adaptation of that as well for some reason. Obviously not her, but makes me think of her.

Anyway, solidly made, not too creepy for me but still weirded me out while I was watching it (not going to need the light on while I sleep tonight like I did with It Follows). Not as creepy as the original though, at least what I remember of the original. I'm going to have to go back and rewatch for the sake of comparison.


As someone who is pretty familiar with the original movie and someone who doenst autohate remakes and sequels, I didnt care for this particular remake.

While I'll pretty much watch Sam Rockwell in anything this remake was definitely lacking in intensity and scares. It felt like a weak grade school production of a Broadway show.


Oh yeah, like I said, definitely not as creepy/scary as the original, but I wasn't going into this expecting pure horror. I got what I wanted, a creepy supernatural haunted house story with a bit of fun in the form of Jarred Harris as the ghost hunting reality TV host.

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Think of this first. How old were you when you saw the original? And how desensitized to scary have you become in the following years?


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Haven't seen the original since I was 14 or so.

As for being desensitized to scary... not really at all. It Follows made me sleep with the lights on for a couple of nights. That said, jump scares generally don't worry me beyond the initial shock, I have far more trouble with creepy atmospheric horror.


I've seen the original POLTERGEIST well over 20 times since I saw it in the theaters as a kid. About the only thing in the film that still rattles me a little bit is that DAMN CLOWN. No matter how many times I've seen that scene and I pretty much know the EXACT BEAT of the reveal? Still gives me the shivers...

I think some horror is more effective when youre an adult than when youre a kid. Especially anything that puts children in danger. The Exorcist is a movie that I loved as a kid but has completely different meaning watching it after youre a parent. It terrifies you for completely different reasons.


I'll leave this 1:41 of scary right here.

If yr up to it, Ninja Clown Monster has something close to that same clowny-clown-clown goodness

or The Easter Bunny is Eating My Candy . They're by a little company called Fewdio, that has seems to have disappeared.

I LOVED the first couple Poltergeist movies. I will probably watch this one too, but I'm going in cautiously optimistic and will probably be mildly amused.

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