A.C.’s Review: 1982
is wildly regarding among movie fans as one of the best years for
films including THE THING, BLADE RUNNER, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH,
the highest regarded
Star Trek film-STAR TREK II-THE WRATH OF KAHN and Spielberg’s classic
E.T…and then there was the OTHER Spielberg film that
summer...POLTERGEIST.
Jumping
ahead to 2015 a remake has just hit the screens once again telling the
story of a mother, father and their three children who move into a new
home which
turns out to have been built atop a cemetery where the tombstones have
been removed but not the bodies. Now the restless spirits need someone
to “lead them into the light” to escape the purgatory and they abduct
the young child…a little girl into their spirit
world. The race is now on to save the little girl before she is lost
forever. Aiding the family is a team of paranormal experts/enthusiasts.
The
names and the characters have changed slightly but it’s all pretty much
the same as the 1982 original. The effects are more sophisticated but
that is about it.
The movie was neither remarkable or unremarkable. On the positive side
there are some atmospheric over head shots of the neighborhood the
family resides in next to some menacing looking power lines that may or
may not have something to do with what is going
on in their house and it was nice to see MAD MEN’s Jarred Harris turn
up in the role of the lead paranormal expert. One the down side it was
kind of ridiculous during the big climax when the house is destroyed not
one neighbor comes out to see what’s happening.
Best Scene: Once the little girl is lured into her closet she looks back
and sees her room far away through the closet doors as she is trapped in
the spirit realm.
A.C.’s Rating: DVD
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