Poltergeist - remake

Noooooooooo!!! Can't they just leave them alone? What ever happened to spruced up Anniversary releases?
They'll never recreate the magic of the original film. The chemistry between all the actors in that movie was extraordinary.
 
That might happen,sooner than you think.A remake of Cronenberg's The Fly has been in development hell for 5 years,but could be moving closer to happening.


After watching Suspiria last night of Film4,I'm amazed Michael Bay and Natalia Portman have the audacity,to even plan to remake such a work of art.
 
but back on topic...I always thought that Poltergeist was more than a bit over-rated. Much preferred The Amityville Horror that came out 3 years before (also subject to a dreadful remake).
 
Yuck, 'all are unwelcome!'. It'll be a 12a I reckon.
I guess Dakota Fanning's too old to be up for the part of Carol Anne. They could always twist the plot to have a kid (maybe a boy this time?) getting messages from his console instead. Xbox (not) Live!
Maybe they could replace Zelda Rubenstein and co with the team from Most Haunted ;-).
 
I always raved about Poltergeist. Hadn't seen it for years so bought the dvd a few weeks ago and gathered a few frienRAB around. Well, to say i was embarrassed was an understatement! God, it hasn't aged well and was nowhere near as good as i remembered.
 
Yeah, I was absolutely obsessed with the Poltergeist and Amityville films in my teens. Unfortunately I only really liked Poltergeist 2. Poltergeist was quite painful to watch. Even with great special effects for their time.

The film would have been a PG if they removed the face ripping and pot scene.
 
I disagree with both of you. Poltergeist deserves its "classic" status. It's a great film, I watched it last week on a huge screen with brilliant sound to boot. It has barely dated at all. The second was decent, not at all better than the first, but the third film is damn right abysmal.

I can safely say right now without any doubt in my mind whatsoever "This remake will be better... than Poltergeist III"

Nothing more, not even remotely. It's like remaking Jaws. All that would do is make Jaws 2 look flawless in comparison, let alone the superb original.
 
I cannot stand Dakota Fanning either. However, please get your facts straight, regarding Heather O'Rourke. She didn't die on set, at all.

Heather had an undetected acute bowel obstruction (intestinal blockage) which merely accumulated, causing her intestines to burst. This happened during the morning of February 1st 1988 in her home. Complications arose and she couldn't be saved. She died on the operating table at 2:43pm the same day aged 12.
 
So what is so good about the original? It's just a family that move into a house who lose their child to the TV. Then they get her back. Hardly groundbreaking. The tornado which apparently whisked Carol-Anne away was the most stupid looking special effect I've ever seen, even for 1982.

Poltergeist also stole so many ideas from The Amityville Horror it's not even funny. That house was built on an burial ground too, and that series also dealt with the "the ghosts followed them" premise. Not to take away anything from Heather O' Rourke, but the fascination with her is quite frankly disturbing (just had a look at the link).

Frankly the best haunted house/ghost film is The Entity, which blows the socks off anything in the genre. That was scary, and was also based on a true story.
 
You see, that's why opinions and views differ.

I think The Entity is an extremely poor film, and The Amityville Horror, regardless of who stole what from where.

I could explain why I think Poltergeist is a great film, but I'm not going too as I have done so many times already in the past. As I said also, opinions and views differ.

I don't find any horror films to be scary at all anymore, regardless of their time period. I did for a brief period when I was a child though. I find such notions now to be nothing more than a generic excuse used merely as a form of crediting or discrediting the particular film in question. How scary it is has never appealed to me in the horror genre. A film can scare the living daylights out of somebody else, yet still retain a horrible script, editing, music, etc, like The Entity (I had to chuckle when you are bashing Poltergeist and then go and regard one of the worst in the genre of that decade as the best). It's everything else that intrigues me about this genre. Film is an art, one in which to be analysed and studied. I find the horror genre to be particular fascinating where the material calls for it. I understand when something is scary, I'm just not scared by it. There is a difference.

I agree with what you said about Heather O'Rourke however. I've made my feelings very clear about these types of people on many occasions. It is indeed quite disturbing.
 
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