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The Bowen family moves into a new house but soon realizes that their new dream house is haunted. This remake of the Hooper/Spielberg 1982 classic looses almost everything. Oh and this review contains SPOILERS! Well soon their little daughter is kidnapped to the other side by restless spirits. The Bowdens must take help from a ghost reality show to get her back.

Now, first off all the family's reaction on their daughters abduction is mild to say the least. They aren't hardly showing sadness or concern. They pretty much joke and act normal! Second, remember Tangina and the eerie ghosts from the original? These are replaced with A funny jokester and samey looking CGI generated zombies/Ghosts which looks basically like Jack Skellington! The pool of corpses? Gone! The face ripping? Gone! And why exactly are these ghosts so evil? Sure, they talk about the cemetery on which the house was build early on but why isn't anyone else experiencing these activitys! And without "The Beast" from the original this seems even more silly! Nope, no Beast, just a bunch of angry Jack Skellingtons who seems stuck in some pile of purgatory-zombie- mass! So don't expect any "they don't know that they have passed on.." Are there other people in the neighbour hood? We never know.. We only see The Bowdens. Jerry Goldsmiths both eerie and beautiful score is replaced with something i don't even remember. Now, i Could rate this as a stand alone horror flick.. And then i would give it a 5. BUT it bears the poltergeist title and must be treated as a remake. And as such this movie actually is worthless! It does not improve anything, just cuts outs the good stuff! I pray Gil Keenan never touches horror again. And Raimi should prob stick to splatter comedys! The acting is okayish but a bit wooden. I do like Carrigan Burke (Harris) and Maddy.. But otherwise.. Nah! Keep with the original this is just plain bad!

I really loved this movie despite hating the found footage genre. First off its NOT a found footage movie. Nobody finds this footage.. So, young archaeologist/adventurer Scarlett sets out on a quest to find the philosophers stone, which is believed to be in the deepest parts of the Paris catacombs. She and her crew must evade traps, solve riddles and ultimately face hell itself! Luckily Scarlett is an expert tomb raider who also know self defense which comes in handily when she must climb, run and fight off "stone demons"! As you can see this basically sounds like a Tomb Raider game? And thats what it basically is, its an adventure movie with a hefty dose of mythological horror. Perhaps a bit misdirected in the posters and trailers? Anyways, loved it and felt it was something different than all other gloomy horror films where everybody dies/it was just in their heads. A big surprise which i really recommends to everybody who loves Indiana Jones/Lara croft/demons and adventure! Thumbs up!

OK, so this is actually not a sequel, but a remake of the first Fright night from 1985. But the twist this time is that the vampire Jerry is a she, Gerry. I wont go into detail about the story since i bet everybody with the slightest interest already knows about Charlie, Amy , Peter Vincent and Evil Ed. So, is it as horrid as people say? Well, yes and no. For once, Evil Ed is much closer to Geoffreys portrayal in the original. Charley is okayish, Amy too. But Vincent comes of as pretty humorless and boring, which is a shame, since both Roddy McDowall and David Tennant made the character pretty cool. Wish they could have gone with a British actor. The movie itself is at least not boring. And the vampire is OK. NOW...to the best part! The effects! Remember those horrible cgi effects in the remake? Even the blood was cgi for Christs sake! Here practical effects is used with a minimum of cgi. Crosses rammed into eyeballs, throat slashings...etc..everything looks great! The only bad thing is actually the demise of Gerry.. Which is a let down.. A combination of these effects, this versions Ed, Farells Jerry, Tennants Vincent and Brad Feidels music from the original would had make the perfect remake. And please, next time You will remake this, have Jerry have his ghoulish day guard! Well, its much more fun then to stare at a concrete wall for 90 minutes. But cant top the original, although its a bit better the the remake when it comes to effects. Sorry for my bad spelling, I'm Swedish and i wrote this on my ipad early in the morning..

Went in with no expectations att all regarding this. And i must say i was positively amazed. The story centers on a couple moving into a new house. Soon weird things start to happen, things which can only be described as a haunting. Seems like the boyfreind was part of an experiment that went awry. They tried to contact an entity from the other side and succeeded with catastrophic consequences. One of the team was sucked in to the other side. Anyways, now the apparition is out to get the rest of the team, which unfortenatly includes the girlfriend. (I mean what the heck? Why say no to an extra snack) As far as the movie goes its pretty standard haunted house business. But its pretty well done. Jumpscares galore, sure but it does it pretty well. The acting is OK to, fun to see Tom felton again. The effects are sparse but executed well, including spooky shadows and otherwordly noises. SPOILERS! The end reminded me of Kairo, other spirits uses the rift the team created and seem to bring on the end of days! So, I know this movie has taken a lot of crap, but really, how whiny can you get! Its a fun horror flick, no more no less, and i sure recommends it to fans of haunted house movies.