A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter.... (Full plot summary below)
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A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter.
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| Common Sense MediaM. FaustOne of the all-time great haunted house movies. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrThough the shocks are well conveyed, it's the sweetness that lingers, making this the first cute and cuddly entry in the genre. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordPoltergiest is no nonstop scream express; at times it pulls its punches (Spielberg wants that PG rating), and at times its effects are bigger than life and less than terrifying. But like Spielberg's Jaws, which was a perfect genre movie, Poltergeist does what it's supposed to do about as well as it can be done. |
| TimeRichard CorlissAt first and final glance, Poltergeist is simply a riveting demonstration of the movies' power to scare the sophistication out of any viewer. It creates honest thrills within the confines of a P.G. rating and reaches for standard shock effects and the forced suspension of disbelief only at the climax, when we realize that the characters are behaving with such obtuseness precisely because they are trapped inside a horror movie. |
| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasMake no mistake: Poltergeist is a Spielberg film, no matter what the credits say. His stylistic fingerprints are all over the movie, never more so than in the opening third, which turns a suburban haunting into an occasion for Spielbergian movie magic before the ghosts get down to business. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullHooper's skill with gore combined with Spielberg's ability to sanitize anything into family-friendliness makes Poltergeist a smash horror hit -- and it's rated PG. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonIt's a highly effective and uncommonly emotional horror film, and in the summer of 1982, I preferred it to Spielberg's more universally admired E.T. |
| Cinema SightWesley LovellA frightening, supernatural horror film that defined a generation. |
| People MagazineRalph NovakHooper and Spielberg have worked long and hard to bring the ghost story to its fullest potential. They have succeeded. |
| Slant MagazineEric HendersonPoltergeist's most canny conceit is how it takes the concept of a haunted house—up to that point a gothic, remote icon (you practically had to accept a dare and then drive halfway across the state to ever find yourself in one)—and plops it in the middle of the most mundane of all possible locations: American suburbia. |
