Poltergeist | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper have refashioned the haunted-house movie as an amusement park ride, complete with plenty of jolting motion and no small measure of hair-raising turns.

A family horror movie designed to offend as few people as possible and to appeal to the majority.

Poltergeist is a compelling entry that resides in a simpler, but no less effective time of supernatural horror.

Fortunately, Spielberg has maintained a wry sense of humor throughout, and that makes most of this affair rather fun.

Poltergeist has a humanity, a care for genuine human feeling, rarely found in scare-movies -- I left not so much afraid of nightmares, as I often am, but hoping to find a ghost of my own to mess with.