Made around the same time Spielberg was shooting 'E.T. The Extraterrestrial' — the two films were released a week apart that summer — and in many ways it can be seen as that humane masterpiece’s sicko B-side.

| Nov 2, 2023

... A masterclass in creeping suburban horror.

| Oct 23, 2023

Though often remembered for its ominous catch phrase, “They’re here…”, its evil clown, and its gruesome conclusion, Poltergeist is a film brimming with strong female characters.

| Original Score: A | Feb 18, 2023

Tobe Hooper does a great job of creating a sense of suburban normalcy and playful family dynamics. Plus he delivers some really creepy scenes.

| Oct 29, 2022

One of the great anti-온라인카지노추천 movies, alongside Network and The Truman Show.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2022

The keynote of the film is O’Rourke’s eerie, ethereally pale face, illuminated by the unearthly light of the haunted 온라인카지노추천.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 21, 2022

It’s not a horror with much depth, but if you like your scares jumpy, there are plenty here.

| Oct 17, 2022

Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper have refashioned the haunted-house movie as an amusement park ride, complete with plenty of jolting motion and no small measure of hair-raising turns.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 25, 2022

A family horror movie designed to offend as few people as possible and to appeal to the majority.

| Jul 29, 2022

Poltergeist is a compelling entry that resides in a simpler, but no less effective time of supernatural horror.

| Nov 12, 2021

Fortunately, Spielberg has maintained a wry sense of humor throughout, and that makes most of this affair rather fun.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 11, 2021

Poltergeist has a humanity, a care for genuine human feeling, rarely found in scare-movies -- I left not so much afraid of nightmares, as I often am, but hoping to find a ghost of my own to mess with.

| Nov 10, 2021

The movie feels more family sensitive than Hooper's other works but includes its share of creepy moments and good reasons not to build your house on top of a cemetery. It also offers a classic phrase to raise hairs on the neck...

| Oct 15, 2021

One of the most fun haunted house movies ever made.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 3, 2020

One of the all-time great haunted-house epics.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 6, 2020

Poltergeist doesn't deserve serious attention... It lacks minimal logic and a coherent objective. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 26, 2019

The sweet, angelic face of Heather O'Rourke swirled together with viscous, ectoplasmic demons and food abominations make for an uncomfortable yet unforgettable movie watching experience

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 9, 2019

A slick, entertaining ghost story and a stomach-turning gore-fest in equal measure, the balance of Spielberg and Hooper's creative impulses blending together.

| Jan 29, 2019

[It] raises interesting psychological issues in the context of a baroque ghost story. It's a devastating commentary on the tv-oriented suburban lifestyle. Finally, it demonstrates the power and efficacy of the story told from the child's point of view.

| Apr 27, 2018

Spielberg's intent may be satirical, but I find these stereotypes even more depressing than hobgoblins, and would not have minded if they'd all been dragged off into the fourth dimension.

| Jan 30, 2018