Poltergeist, 2015 - ★★★

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Why did they remake Poltergeist???

I think I didn't like this because it's by far worse than the original. The main story is the same: A family of 5 moves into a new house. And from the start the house is a little weird. Madison (Kennedi Clements), the youngest daughter talks to someone. Griffin (Kyle Catlett), the son realises the first that there is something wrong, but no one believes him. One night when the parents go out for dinner, everything goes crazy...

I have to say this movie has some good scenes. The horror scenes are sometimes well done. For example when we see the clown dolls and we just see a little movement (just check the trailer). Scenes like that build a scary mood.

But the rest of the movie annoyed me. Mostly the dad character and the son character annoyed me. The dad in this movie is shitty. They don't have any money left and he goes to spend probably very much money on stuff they don't really need. I loved the first movie because they were a happy family with no problems. The first part of the original movie was just a happy family movie. And here nothing is happy from the start.

And I don't know if it's just me but I hate little kid characters that behave like they are the only grown ups. And in the dub I watched this boy also talked weird, like neither child nor grown ups would talk like that. Everytime I watched that I had to try not to cringe. I really hated that character.

So I had major problems with this movie that made me not like it even though it has, as I see it, pretty good scares.
That's why I still give it 3 stars, because as a standalone movie it is accaptable, as a remake of such a classic it's shit though.