Poltergeist (2015)

Every time there is a remake of a classic alarm bells will ring. There's always something sacred about an established franchise that makes us want to hold onto it dearly and any attempt to put that out again for the masses will have us storming to movie land with burning torches and pitchforks.

So when I first heard about the remake of Poltergeist my first instinct was "don't let it suck!" I'm quite sure those words or variants thereof were your thoughts too.

Did it? No. Was it awesome? Also, no.

It did do its job of remaking a movie, but it didn't really bring anything new to the table or give us anything that we didn't expect. It didn't try to transport us into 2015 by doing anything daft and stuck to the plot but also it didn't jump out of the screen (pun intended) and shock us.

Several plus points for not trying to re-cast that annoying medium woman with someone equally annoying (like Lin Shaye) but instead almost seeming to borrow from the original Fright Night.

Summed up - yeah, it's pretty good, just not great,

6/10 Masks

Initial release: May 21, 2015 (Netherlands)
Director: Gil Kenan
Running time: 1h 41m
Adapted from: Poltergeist
Producers: Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, Roy Lee, Nathan Kahane