I caught up with the original Poltergeist for the first time this past Halloween. It played as part of an all day marathon in a huge old local theater and I totally flipped for it. My only wish is that it had played as the last film instead of right before the midday break. That movie fucking plays, with scares and humor and and awesome mix of practical and old school optical effects. Seriously, you could put that movie in theaters every Halloween and I'm convinced it would simply never go out of style.
Instead, we're getting a remake with Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt and Irish Lane Pryce. I mean, I guess. Rockwell's great, but I doubt this movie will give him the chance to do any of the things that make me love him so. Then again, the director is Gil Kenan and he's responsible for the seriously underrated Monster House. So maybe there's hope!
What annoys me the most about this trailer is that, while it does look to stick pretty close to the original, it also looks fairly indistinguishable from a dozen other haunted house/ghost movies from the last few years. It seems like they're compensating for a lack of originality with TONS MORE GHOSTS! While that fucking clown doll is appropriately creepy, there's certainly nothing here as uniquely peculiar as the original's Zelda Rubenstein character. I'll see it for sure, but the chances that it can hold a candle to Joe Dante's version seem pretty slim.
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