The Hollywood remake machine has just cranked out the trailer to another pointless remake - Poltergeist. The original movie was a classic and one of Spielberg's best films from the 80's (no, Toby Hooper did NOT direct it). Here is the new trailer, cover shot by shot everything that was in the original movie. Why? Why?
Everything but the "They're heeeeeeeere" line. Seems pretty unnecessary. Why not just spin the 1982 film?
I was going to ask "why". But it actually looks like it could be OK. So I will not partake in irrational remake hatred.
A lot of stuff seems to have been retained, including an aspect that doesn't really make sense given modern technology (the snowy tv screen), but they also seem to have added quite a bit of modern "horror" tropes in order to update it. Honestly that aspect of it is what annoys me the most, which the gripe I have about remakes in general has more to do with the fact there seem to be so many that have been made, are being made, or are in development at this time. That and a general sense of fatigue.
Huh. I just saw the trailer for this today. If the original wasn't a thing, this would have looked pretty good. But since we have the original, this looks like a big sack of "why bother?"
Interesting side note: in Poltergeist their house was built on top of an ancient indian burial site. My house is built near (or on) an ancient slave burial ground. We've had weird things happen from time to time. Last night one of my cats woke me up by "play biting" me. Coincidence or something more sinister? You be the judge!
It wasn't ancient burial site, it was a regular cemetery. The contractors that built the neighborhood moved the tombstones but not the actual graves, and at the climax of the film, some of them even pop out of the ground as the family flees the home/neighborhood.
