I'm sure you all remember Steven Spielberg's Poltergeist from 1982, well at least the parts you haven't blacked out from your memory, like the evil clown doll, the guy peeling off his face, or creepy girl talking to the television. The original Poltergeist film was of what nightmares are made. Well, get ready because Sam Raimi (director of The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead 2 (1987), Army of Darkness (1992), Drag Me to Hell (2009)) is producing the upcoming remake of Poltergeist along with children's film director Gil Kenan (Monster House (2006), City of Ember (2008)) in somewhat of a re-imagining of the film. Poltergeist will star Sam Rockwell as Eric Bowen as he and his family are terrorized by evil spirits until his daughter, Madison, played by the convincingly creepy Kennedi Clements, is taken, forcing the family to come together in an effort to retrieve her.
Poltergeist will be released in theaters on July 24, 2015.
To many people's surprise, the film has been branded with a PG-13 rating, which can only mean it probably won't include as much graphic bloodshed and gore as the original film, which, ironically, was only rated PG. You see kids, in olden times, there was no PG-13 rating, and if a film didn't definitely deserve an R rating, then it was rated PG, and Poltergeist flew in just under the ratings radar. Nowadays, if a film has is rated PG-13 then it means the filmmakers have to try that much harder to make the film suspenseful and scary, and all without the gore. Personally, I think having Sam Raimi team up with a children's film director to create this movie is a very interesting idea. The inclusion of Sam Rockwell and the news of a PG-13 rating is only more good news.
I can't wait.
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