UPDATE: First Trailer & Poster For The POLTERGEIST Remake

UPDATE: First Trailer & Poster For The POLTERGEIST Remake

It's heeeeeeere! We like to cover the occasional horror movie here at CBM, and Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist is a bonafide classic. Can this Sam Raimi produced remake live up to it? Not likely, but it does look decent. Updated with a different, English version of the trailer.

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By MarkCassidy - Feb 05, 2015 06:02 AM EST
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Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi (producer) reimagines and contemporizes the classic tale about a family whose suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

Poltergeist will be with us on July 24th.
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MonsterSquad35
MonsterSquad35 - 2/5/2015, 6:49 AM
no no no it's all wrong.
Pigdango
Pigdango - 2/5/2015, 6:49 AM
French trailer? Why?
Nick56
Nick56 - 2/5/2015, 6:52 AM
So excited for this. Also according to bloody-disgusting its actually more of a reboot/sequel than a remake. Similar to the new Evil Dead
SuperCat
SuperCat - 2/5/2015, 6:53 AM
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 2/5/2015, 6:53 AM
What is the difference between a reboot and a remake? I'll tell you: There isn't one.
COREY6487
COREY6487 - 2/5/2015, 6:54 AM
people are crying its in PG... well idiots the original was PG too
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 2/5/2015, 6:55 AM
I loved the original Poltergeist.

Fun Fact...It was Gusto's mom's last acting gig before she retired to a life of cocaine and sheep humping.
ManThing
ManThing - 2/5/2015, 6:56 AM
the French aside, yeah it seems pretty lackluster. That's one that they probably shouldn't have touched.

I think that basically Poltergeist, Close Encounters, and The Exorcist should never be remade.
COREY6487
COREY6487 - 2/5/2015, 6:58 AM
i wonder how they managed to get it in pg.
TheClemster
TheClemster - 2/5/2015, 7:00 AM
SACREBLEU!!!!!!
batz11
batz11 - 2/5/2015, 7:00 AM
Je ne parle pas français , visser ce ...
brilaneb
brilaneb - 2/5/2015, 7:05 AM
I want the braces scene from the second one. That was crazy good effects for an 80's movie.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 2/5/2015, 7:05 AM
@Rormachine

I wouldn't say there isn't a difference. Let's look at comic book movies for example. Is Batman Begins a remake of Batman 89? Is The Amazing Spider-Man a remake of Spider-Man? Is Man of Steel a remake of Superman? I would say no to all.

Remakes aren't too bad. Scarface for example is a remake. Star Trek is a reboot. The Spike Lee Oldboy is a remake. A Nightmare On Elm Street is a bit of both but was meant to mostly reboot the Nightmare On Elm Street series. The Ben Hur film in development is a remake. I would say Star Trek Into Darkness is a remake of Wrath of Khan.

Remakes mostly focus on remaking a single film while a reboot is making a new series of a character that doesn't necessarily follow the previous series besides the characters in it.
MonsterSquad35
MonsterSquad35 - 2/5/2015, 7:05 AM
@TheLastSonofEl...

Yeah seriously. RIP.

Great idea for plot...Ghost of Carol-Ann?

Would actually be interesting...also, remember how freaky this guy was?
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 2/5/2015, 7:07 AM
By the way the whole remakes aren't too bad, I was talking about Scarface. Oldboy was shitty.
batz11
batz11 - 2/5/2015, 7:08 AM
Clowns creep me the [frick] out...
StarkAnthony
StarkAnthony - 2/5/2015, 7:10 AM
The original was PG because it came out in 1982, which was before the PG-13 rating existed but the movie wasn't R material.
SpiderFraud
SpiderFraud - 2/5/2015, 7:13 AM
Oldboy remake was one of the most disgusting things I ever seen in the theaters.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 2/5/2015, 7:15 AM
The word reboot has only been applied to remakes for a few years, and was coined by studios who were sick of getting flak for revisiting so many older properties. Spider-Man, Star Trek etc -- if there were films carrying the same title before them, then they are remakes of older movies, no two ways about it. Because they are franchises and there are many ways the characters and stories can be interpreted, means there's an argument there, as we all use the word reboot now, but as far as Poltergeist is concerned, it is DEFINITELY a full remake, no matter how many little tweaks they make to it.
Dotanuki
Dotanuki - 2/5/2015, 7:16 AM
Please stop. Every one of these remakes convinces me that the creative well has run dry. After watching Birdman this past weekend, it reminded me that we really need better films.
grif
grif - 2/5/2015, 7:19 AM
this movie should not have been remade. oooooo from the people who made the grudge and evil dead. well theres two reasons not to watch it. i bet they have the tree that comes alive and shit too. what a joke.
SuperCat
SuperCat - 2/5/2015, 7:22 AM
MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 2/5/2015, 7:25 AM
@LEVITIKUZ

Scarface wasn't a remake, it would be a reboot. It has nothing to do with the original.
MightyZeus
MightyZeus - 2/5/2015, 7:25 AM
So this is really happening? Well i can admit i'm disappointed, i wonder what else Hollywood is going to remake, they already ruined Evil Dead which was a disappointment, same with Total Recall and Conan.

The only good reboots/remake in my opinion are Dawn of the Apes and Dawn of the Dead.
MightyZeus
MightyZeus - 2/5/2015, 7:28 AM
@SuperCat

Holy crap that gif is hilarious.
Dotanuki
Dotanuki - 2/5/2015, 7:29 AM
@TheLastSonOfEl

I think that the ending is open to interpretation. Some people may not like movies that aren't tied up neatly. I don't mind because it then becomes interesting to discuss.

The hate for CBMs also didn't bother me. I wouldn't call it a hate but rather it acknowledged that CBM make a lot of money, can be very successful and, for an actor, are attractive for those reasons.

I thought it was a multi-layered movie and I'd enthusiastically recommend it.
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 2/5/2015, 7:32 AM
Did this really need a remake? No… Damn you FOX! Sam Raimi needs to go back and make some of his own original horror films or just make one of the million Stephan King novels thats not a movie yet.

MercwithMouth
MercwithMouth - 2/5/2015, 7:32 AM
@MightyZeus

I loved Momoa's Conan. But then again, I HATED Ahnuld's Conan movies.
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