I really must resist the temptation to watch trailers; basically I've just watched the short version of the film, so going to see the full movie seems rather pointless.

You never saw the original version from the (19)80s? It's basically that.

Also, another trailer with different scenes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u2KUpPNIf4 from http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/35713/second-teaser-poltergeist ...

I don't know about this... It looks like a wait and see. Some of those scenes look like they are trying too hard...like WAY too hard; essentially they are trying to scare us using all of the extremely stupid ideas that have been used in all horror films since 2000...

Poltergeist was inventive, and awesome. Not only was it NOT a rated R film, but it STILL imposed a sense of dread that you don't get from many horror movies--because they all rely on two things: the "gotcha" scenes where something unexpected happens too fast for your senses to comprehend...thus it creates fear; and second, make something normal look absolutely not normal (the little girl in the closet for an example).

I hope they can pull it off, but it looks to me like they failed to grasp the reason WHY the first film did do so well. The beginning of the show was hard to even tell it WAS a horror film, and when things start to happen, the family was more in awe and ready to experiment with it...at first (and other signs were passed off as natural phenomena).

This looks like it is straight up: horror. I really hope that is not the case. Poltergeist spent a long time to setup it's scary moments, many of it's most scary moments are actually psychological--because you can see them coming, they never jump out at you (except when things go crazy at the very end). I hope they realize this at least...but as I said, it sure looks like they didn't.

BTW, anyone with the info on it, who is writing it, producing it, and directing it? Otherwise I'll go look it up (and see how bad it is; it already said it was from the producers of Evil Dead...like that is something to be proud of...it wasn't a good remake...).

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