Synopsis
A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.
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Cast
- Sam RockwellEric Bowen
- Rosemarie DeWittAmy Bowen
- Saxon SharbinoKendra Bowen
- Kyle CatlettGriffin Bowen
- Kennedi ClementsMadison Bowen
- Jared HarrisCarrigan Burke
- Nicholas BraunBoyd
- Jane AdamsDr. Claire Powell
- Susan HeywardSophie
- Karen IvanyMrs. Stoller
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
While Hooper favored shock value and jump scares, Kenan and cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe construct far more fluid sequences as the camera glides and hovers over its subjects, reserving the most impactful shots for the climactic scenes, particularly a concluding sequence that’s particularly thrilling. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
The only really frightening thing about the 2015 version of Poltergeist is how haunted it is by the original. - 60
Variety
Less a steadily escalating thriller than a guided tour through a county-fair-style haunted house, Poltergeist offers some quality jump scares, and Kenan has a knack for staging solid individual setpieces. But he proves weirdly incapable of modulation or mood setting here. - 60
Total Film
Very tame, but saved from the remake scrapheap by Sam Rockwell's surprisingly touching performance and a final reel that – briefly – takes the material somewhere new. - 60
Time Out London
Poltergeist, while entertaining, has more in common with slick, audience-goosing spookers like "Insidious" and "Sinister" than with the imaginative original. - 60
The Telegraph
Mostly it’s a scare machine, and in this respect Kenan’s is the more efficient telling, its VFX lubricating all that now creaks about the original. - 50
Screen Daily
A good cast including Sam Rockwell and Jared Harris wander around sincerely in what feels, at times, almost a shot-by-shot remake, and at others, an obstinately wrong-footed exercise in dabbling with the narrative. - 40
Empire
A disappointingly tame and unimaginative effort, which throws away much of what was best-loved about the original and fails to find worthy replacements.
