So many elements of the original have been pillaged since 1982, the shiny remake comes off as third-rate.

'Poltergeist': EW review

The key difficulty in talking and writing about movie remakes is simple: it’s very hard to not just spend 500 or so words asking, over and over, “Why?”...

They're here. Again...

Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt co-star in Fox and MGM's reboot of the '80s haunted-house classic.

Within Hollywood's ongoing remake cycle, the 1982 hit "Poltergeist" is a choice both obvious and challenging.

It doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but Poltergeist is a solid, surprisingly effective chiller that’s respectful towards its 1982 predecessor while acquitting...

“Poltergeist” is heaving with the scariest things you can possibly imagine: The mad clown doll that comes alive. The undead seeking revenge. The bitchy t...

This new movie gets technological upgrades in a nostalgic remake of the 1982 horror film about a family whose house is menaced by ghosts.

This new movie gets technological upgrades in a nostalgic remake of the 1982 horror film about a family whose house is menaced by ghosts.

Upon its 1982 release, a single notable characteristic could be attributed to Poltergeist: in an era when horror was increasingly being dominated by R-rated ...

Rarely has a remake felt more contractually obligated than the 2015 version of Poltergeist.

Well, the little girl gets it. Kennedi Clements plays Maddy Bowen, the child trapped between the real world and the afterlife in the new version of “Polter...

Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt star in this remake of the ’80s classic about a haunted house in the suburbs.

Dir. Gil Kenan. US, 2015, 93 mins

A faithful but uninspired retread of the 1982 horror film that can't really answer the question 'why?'

Gil Kenan’s faithful rehash of Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg’s 1982 family-friendly horror smash about a haunted house in the suburbs is ...

This remake pales next to the 1982 original, of course, but also in comparison to movies like "The Conjuring" and "Paranormal Activity," which already stripp...

Generally entertaining yet fundamentally unnecessary, this tribute-band take on one of the genre’s greatest hits should score decent opening weekend number...

The new Poltergeist is not the raging hellfire of sacrilege many of us feared it might be, but, well ...