Poltergeist 2015 Movie

Initial release: May 21, 2015 (Netherlands)

Director: Gil Kenan

Running time: 1h 41m

Adapted from: Poltergeist

Producers: Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, Roy Lee, Nathan Kahane

Cast: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Kennedi Clements

Poltergeist Movie Review

Poltergeist 2015 is a remake of an old film that my mother used to talk about to me and my brothers in my childhood; the film was first shown in1982 and was a classic horror of that time. I still remember how my mother talked about it, she said “There’s a monster inside the closet of a room in the movie, the monster opens its mouth and sucked everything inside it; I really liked the design of the closet.” Well she clearly didn’t understand the concept; the concept shown in the movie is very unique and never shown before in a horror film because it’s not really a monster that sucks things in, it’s a “Wormhole” to another dimension, the interesting thing is that you can even call it “Science Fiction Horror” because of the wormhole. The movie has many qualities that others don’t, it grasps the viewer unlike any other horror ever seen while it lacks the show of supernatural beings that do supernatural stuff in the movie. There is no specific demon that haunts the house, it’s a “Poltergeist” or simply a mob of supernatural beings, there are so many of them in that house that you can’t star any one specific being. The actors in the movie are Sam Rockwell (as the father), Rosmarie DeWitt (as the mother), Saxon Sharbino(as their eldest daughter) and two adolescents(Kyle Katlett and Kennedi Clements) named Griffin and Madison. It’s directed by Gil Kenan, written by David Linsday-Abaire and produced by Sam Raimi.

The story starts when Eric and his wife Amy buy a house in their budget range which has a very ancient tree beside it. The house was built on top of a cemetery, a very old cemetery. Unlike other horror movies the horror moments in poltergeist are very unique, they don’t show any supernatural entity but moving objects make all the fun in it, for example as Griffin one day enters a room following a baseball, he sees toys rising and sitting in an unusual manner, looking at him; and when he looks back his comic books are arranged in mid air remarkably, triangles supporting each other like an intellectual design that lasted horrifyingly for one second. But who would listen to a kids experience with comic books. After this the horror starts in a flash like an explosion (not gradually like other horror films), as Amy and Eric are at a dinner enjoying the conversation with their new neighbors. When they come back their youngest child is nowhere to be found, in my opinion the actors in the movie were too chill after the child’s disappearance, well she just vanished inside a closet what is there to worry about huh? They act too calm in the movie, especially Eric. Now little Madison is inside another dimension with the mob and can communicate through a TV screen, what does the poltergeist want from the little girl? Who helps them? How does he help them? Find that out by watching the movie, oh and another thing; the light show in the movie is pretty epic (you’ll know when you watch it).