Boys and
Dolls
Film: Poltergeist
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt
Directed by: Gil Kenan
Duration: 1 hr 33 mins
Rating: * *
Poltergeist is a remake of Tobe Hooper’s 1982 film (which
was co-written by Steven Spielberg) and sadly, it has nothing new to contribute
to the original film. It has partly been updated for modern times but that
doesn’t bring anything new to the table.
Haunted houses, creaking doors, strange noises in the middle
of the night, and scary looking toys in the attics - all this has been done to
death in horror films over the years. Poltergeist gives us more of the same.
The Bowen family, Eric (Sam Rockwell) and Amy (Rosemarie
DeWitt) move to a new house after he has been laid off from his job. They have
a teenage daughter and a little boy and a girl, needless to say, strange things
start happening in the house after a box of clown dolls is found.
Even if you haven’t seen the original, it is very easy to
predict what will happen next because it is all so passé. A group of paranormal
investigators are brought in and being a horror film, you know that the
‘spirits’ will have the better of them.
Surely, films have a major role to play in spreading
mumbo-jumbo among gullible people about evil spirits, haunted houses and
possessed dolls.
The climax is the only redeeming factor in this otherwise
run of the mill product.
Published in The Navhind Times on 24th May 2015
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