Think of it more as a fun-ride than a horror movie.
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10/11/08
Poltergeist (1982)
85 %
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Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 39
Rotten:7
Average Rating: 7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Ghosts invade suburbia in this 1982 horror film from director Tobe Hooper (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) and producer Steven Spielberg. Life in the Freeling family's tract home is comfortably bland, but frisky poltergeists soon put a little... [More]
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Dominique Dunne
Director: Tobe Hooper
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Reviews for Poltergeist
After a quarter-century, Poltergeist remains one of the most popular movies whose reputation rests almost exclusively on behind-the-scenes diversions.
10/23/07
It's a highly effective and uncommonly emotional horror film, and in the summer of 1982, I preferred it to Spielberg's more universally admired E.T.
10/18/07
So darn good it makes me wish Spielberg hadn't given up on the horror genre.
10/12/07
At first this takes the form of your classic poltergeist activity (moved furniture, that kind of thing), but it becomes weirder.
09/25/07
A surprisingly yet successfully restrained lesson in how to haunt a house.
09/25/07
Top Critic
Given the talents, Poltergeist is an annoying film because it could have been so much better.
09/25/07
Top Critic A vapid, silly horror movie with occasional moments of promise that ultimately fails due to an overdose of cuteness.
09/25/07
Though the shocks are well conveyed, it's the sweetness that lingers, making this the first cute and cuddly entry in the genre.
09/25/07
It is consistently redeemed by its creator's dazzling sense of craft.
02/09/06
Hooper's skill with gore combined with Spielberg's ability to sanitize anything into family-friendliness makes Poltergeist a smash horror hit -- and it's rated PG.
10/01/05
That it's all hokum gets washed aside by the believable and perceptive family value story set in bland suburbia.
06/20/05
J’aurais préféré voir quelque chose de plus sombre et de plus sérieux. Dommage.
02/25/05
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