(Kennedi Clements), are dealing with problems fostered by Eric's recent loss of his job at John Deere (how's that for somewhat odd The general outlines of the original Poltergeist are still largely intact in this version, with a few relatively minor variations (like nameįamily, father Eric (Sam Rockwell), mother Amy (Rosemarie DeWitt), and kids Kendra (Saxon Sharbino), Griffin (Kyle Catlett) and little Madison Vis the supposedly traumatized Bowen family, or (more importantly) with regard to the audience, some of whom may feel they've been Director Gil Kenan showed his facility with haunted manses in his wryly amusingĪnimated film Monster House, but while this live actionįeature wisely eschews a blatantly cartoonish ambience, there's precious little actual fear being engendered, either on screen vis a Their children has been abducted by-well, something. Really working up the requisite angst that should accrue once a picture perfect family discovers they're in a hostile environment and that one of Stretch, and it certainly doesn't stoop to the mimicry Gus Van Sant employed in his remake of another horror staple, Alfred Hitchcock's iconic Psycho, but the film is surprisingly docile a lot of the time, never Poltergeist, but the central one which may be most prevalent may well be a simple, "Why?" Why remake the 1982 Poltergeist to begin with, especially when the remake doesn'tĪttempt to do much updating or renovating, let alone innovating? This new if not exactly improved Poltergeist isn't horrible by any There are any number of questions which may occur to various viewers as they watch the 2015 reboot of the venerable horror outing Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, October 1, 2015
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