From 2008 to 2009, filmmaker Vadim Perelman has already been tapped to direct the remake of the 1982 film of the same name, with Juliet Snowden and Stiles White reportedly on-board to write the screenplay. The project was initially set to be released on November 24, 2010. However, Bloody Disgusting reported that the remake has been pushed back from its original November 2010 release date to an undetermined date in 2011.
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Poltergeist
(2015)Country | |
Runtime | 1 hr 33 min |
Budget | $35 000 000 |
Premiere: World | $95 437 994 May 18, 2015 |
USA | $47 425 125 |
Other countries | $48 012 869 |
Box Office – Budget | $60 437 994 |
Premiere: USA | $47 425 125 May 22, 2015 |
first day | $9 347 332 |
first weekend | $22 620 386 |
rollout | 224 days |
Digital: World | September 4, 2015 |
Parental Advisory | Frightening & Intense Scenes, ... |
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A family whose suburban home is haunted by evil forces must come together to rescue their youngest daughter after the apparitions take her captive.Сast and Crew
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Critique: 26
There’s little doubt that nostalgia played a part in Fox’s decision to remake Poltergeist, but that’s a poor reason for...
Though Rockwell and DeWitt give the material their own likable spin, most of the story mechanics will be familiar to anyone who has seen the origin...
Monster House director Gil Kenan doesn’t desecrate the grave of the original, but nor does he offer any convincing reason to raise it from th...
…makes largely cosmetic changes to the material without offering much in the way of distinctive frights.
The original film was promoted with the tagline "It knows what scares you." If there was a truth-in-advertising law regarding films, this movi...
There are some jumps but few legitimate scares, unlike director Tobe Hooper’s original, which, although similarly bloodless, still stands as...
Poltergeist is an update of the 1982 horror of the same name and remains faithful to its story: spirits terrorise a suburban family and m...
This remake is over 20 minutes shorter than the original "Poltergeist," and it saved most of that time by sacrificing the beginning and end.
If viewers can look past the sheer audacity of attempting another Poltergeist, they’ll find a solid modernization.
[A] professionally executed yet bloodless film … an act of homage that hews reverently to its source material while missing the essential spirit an...
Rarely has a remake felt more contractually obligated than the 2015 version of "Poltergeist."
This new spooky-house chiller never escapes the shadow of its predecessor, but it also pales next to the scores of subsequent movies – "The Co...
This new Poltergeist isn’t anything special … But it’s not a travesty, and that feels like cause for brief celebration.
It doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but Poltergeist is a solid, surprisingly effective chiller that’s respectful towards its 1982 ...
Leaving behind the youth-skewing perspectives of Monster House and City of Ember, director Gil Kenan not only delivers on the promise of Hooper&rsq...
Remaking the 1982 horror film Poltergeist wasn’t necessarily a bad idea, but this new version feels like too little, too late.
Just as the original was one of the scariest PG movies ever, the reboot has about as much gruesomeness as you can possibly stuff into a PG-13.
'Poltergeist' assembles a very gifted group of people to go through another movie’s paces, a cover band you wish would just play their o...
It’s a shame Kenan can’t muster his own bit of gothic shorthand for post-credit crunch America, but the film still has a flui...
The remake has been engineered in broadly the right carnival spirit. It should shift a lot of popcorn, if nothing else.
Poltergeist does benefit from briskness-it’s actually 20 minutes shorter than Hooper’s film-and there is a nice, Evil Dead 2...
Director Gil Kenan ruins the pacing with too many half-baked, awkwardly staged horror set pieces, but the cast acquit themselves well enough.
Alongside the shock tactics, Kenan’s Poltergeist also works well as a study of a squeezed middle-class American family struggling to survive...
Yet another pointless remake that pales in comparison to the superior original.
The new "Poltergeist" might well be the scariest movie 13-or-unders have yet seen, just as the original was for their parents back in 1982.
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