Reviews for this film from our members:
- José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Un remake tan intrascendente como era de esperar. El respeto/temor al clásico y la irrelevancia industrial de una propuesta de fin de semana convierten el conjunto en un pim, pam, pum discotequero correcto, pero más bien sosete y amigo del ridículo en ocasiones.
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: The essential paradox of the remake has seldom been as explicitly — and often frustratingly — actualized as it is in Gil Kenan’s new ‘Poltergeist,’ which 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.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Poltergeist, a condensed remake of Tobe Hooper’s 1982 horror film, is doubly redundant.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Creepy and contrived, it’s a nostalgic yet totally unnecessary remake.
- [New – 8/6/15] | Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Mark Harris @ About.com
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: If you have any inclination to see this, just rewatch the original. You will lose nothing, and you’ll have a far better time.
- Ben Kendrick @ Screen Rant
- Excerpt: Poltergeist (2015) is a forgettable diversion – one that may satisfy casual viewers looking for a mildly eerie (and sometimes humorous) ghost story.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: 2015’s “Poltergeist” doesn’t do much wrong; it just doesn’t do much that stands out or distinguishes itself beyond the competent, nor is it particularly scary.
- Daniel Lackey @ Cinema Axis
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Poltergeist isn’t one of those remakes that totally pisses on the corpse of the original, but it doesn’t do much with the framework either.
- Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- João Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Um remake mediano de um clássico icónico
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: The remake feels like a rush through paces we’ve been over before brought to you by filmmakers who never bothered to understand why they worked in the first place. Spielberg and director Tobe Hooper worked to create a sense of magic and life and energy. That movie was also fun. This one, directed by Gil Keanan (Monster House), feels like a checklist. There’s no time for anything, no time for characters, no time to establish tension or mood.
- Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Doesn’t improve on Hooper’s film, or equal it, but at least it doesn’t bastardize it. But…why settle for a respectable retread when you can still savor its superior model?
- Sarah Ward @ Trespass Magazine
- Goerge Zervopoulos @ Movies Ltd. [Greek]
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