directed by: Tobe Hooper
written by: Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais, Mark Victor
starring: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke
seen: 28th September, 2017
I don't know if it's because I watched "Poltergeist" entirely out of its cultural context, but it seem to me that only a few things really work in this film. It's basically just a copy of "The Exorcist", copied without that sense of "something" that made "The Exorcist" extraordinary, and a lot more B-movie-like. Half the dialogue feels like unintentional comedy and about a third of the material could be cut entirely, and it would only improve things. Some of those cult shots are cool, but given the film is two hours long (!) there is not quite enough of them. (My favourite part - the excavator working on a pool digging up the box with a burried bird.) The strike of me not liking majority of Spielberg's creations continues.
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