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POLTERGEIST

2015 • US HMDB
mayo 20, 2015

Cuenta la historia de una familia que, tras mudarse a una nueva casa, se ve azotada por los espíritus de los que la habitaron en el pasado. El foco del ataque sobrenatural se centra en la hija más pequeña del matrimonio. Remake del clásico de 1982.

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Produccion: John Powers Middleton (Executive Producer)Roy Lee (Producer)Sam Raimi (Producer)Robert Tapert (Producer)Becki Cross Trujillo (Executive Producer)J.R. Young (Executive Producer)Audrey Chon (Executive Producer)
Guion: David Lindsay-Abaire (Screenplay)
Musica: Marc Streitenfeld (Original Music Composer)
Fotografia: Javier Aguirresarobe (Director of Photography)

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La familia Bowen, compuesta por Eric y Amy y sus tres hijos Kendra, Griffin y Madison, pasó en poco tiempo de una situación próspera a una grave crisis económica, provocada por el despido del cabeza de familia y el estado de desempleo de su esposa. Esta situación les obliga a cambiar de casa y mudarse a una casa más pequeña y menos cómoda que la anterior, lo que crea incomodidades y malestares, especialmente en la hija mayor Kendra. Pero lo peor está por venir. Presencias extrañas comienzan a manifestarse a través de los aparatos electrónicos de la vivienda y a percibirlas de manera más directa es Madison, quien desde el principio interactúa con amigos misteriosos escondidos dentro del armario de su habitación y dentro del televisor de la sala. Una amistad peligrosa que llevará a la pequeña a ser secuestrada por demonios en otra dimensión de la cual será muy difícil rescatarla. Para salvar a su amada hija, los padres se confían a un equipo de médiums que emprenderá un largo duelo con las fuerzas oscuras que habitan la casa. ¿Remake sí o remake no? Esta es la pregunta banal y puntual que atormenta y divide a los aficionados al terror cada vez que nos encontramos ante una práctica que en los últimos quince años se ha vuelto muy de moda, e incluso abusada, que solo tiene sentido en el caso de que el guión del modelo original se utilice para contar algo nuevo con modalidades y puntos de vista diferentes, como ocurrió con los excelentes "La casa" de Fede Alvarez y "El amanecer de los muertos" de Zack Snyder. Estos dos, sin embargo, son solo algunos de los pocos títulos exitosos en la difícil tarea de revitalizar y renovar obras del pasado, ya que la lista de los remakes listos para engrosar las filas de los detractores de dicha práctica es bastante amplia y sería un ejercicio largo repetirla en este lugar. Otra víctima de esta máquina comercial esta vez es "Poltergeist - Presencias demoníacas", culto de 1982 dirigido por Tobe Hooper y producido por Steven Spielberg, al que se le da una segunda vida gracias al director israelí Gil Kenan, quien, bajo el ala protectora de un Sam Raimi aquí como productor, da vida a una película que entra de lleno en la especial clasificación de los remakes más inútiles y feos de la última década, e incluso con buenas posibilidades de situarse en los altos de este ranking poco halagador. Apenas terminada la visión, se hace un gran esfuerzo para recordar todos los errores de una película que tiene el gran defecto de insertar muy pocos elementos de novedad respecto al original y copiar en todo y por todo la película de Hooper, aceptando así una comparación perdida de antemano. Kenan, de hecho, no solo cae en la trampa de referirse de manera demasiado descarada a un modelo tan datado, sino que también intenta adaptarlo a los ritmos y modalidades de puesta en escena de nuestra época. En la pantalla asistimos así a representaciones que, más que infundir miedo, caen en lo ridículo y contribuyen a despojar de toda su carga horripilante a esos elementos fuertemente icónicos en la película de 1982: el árbol, aquí, se convierte en un simple trozo de madera que no asusta ni a un niño, el muñeco del payaso resulta torpe y los demonios realizados en gráficos por computadora denotan una cura aproximada. El director, por lo tanto, parece totalmente ignorante de todos los mecanismos de la tensión y la fotografía de Javier Aguirresarobe no hace más que empeorar la situación con su absoluta inadecuación para crear atmósferas inquietantes que sepan tocar las cuerdas auténticas del terror. Una mediocridad general que se vuelve cada vez más evidente y culmina en un final, decepcionante como era de esperar, en el que se ve un coche que vuela y se estrella contra la casa en pleno estilo película de desastres y un viaje a la otra dimensión que, aunque no sea una mala idea, se realiza de manera pésima debido a imágenes similares a un videojuego de baja calidad. Pero el aspecto de terror no es la única nota discordante de la película. Como si no fuera suficiente, Kenan tropieza a lo grande incluso en su único intento de introducir algo propio, describiendo de manera torpe y desaliñada una familia en crisis económica (en la película de Hooper, los Freeling eran la típica familia media americana próspera) sin por ello explicar en detalle cómo y por qué se encuentra en tal situación de malestar. El cuadro empeora con la actuación de un reparto en general poco a la altura de la situación y que incluye, además de Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt y Kennedi Clements, un Jared Harris cuyo talento se ve anulado por un personaje que, insertado en lugar de la mítica Tangina, más que a un cazafantasmas se parece a un exorcista fuera de lugar y protagonista de chistes al límite del grotesco. Al final, por lo tanto, "Poltergeist" es una película fea y olvidable tanto si se la mira como un remake como como una película por sí sola.
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RESEÑAS DE LA COMUNIDAD (5)

Zevi Wolmark

It’s not the worst remake of all time, but it’s just ordinary. It’s bland, lifeless, vanilla, and feels like what the Lifetime Channel in America would do to a remake of the Tobe Spielberg classic haunting film. I think the only reason Gil Kenan was hired for this movie was because the movie is based around a monster house and he depicted a monster so well in his last film that the job only seemed like a no brainer. The problem is Kenan forgets to produce likable characters and interesting scares during the process of producing an evil possessed house. - Zevi Wolmark

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Reno

5 /10

Would have been a better film if it was an original.

Unnecessary to compare this with the original and I tried, but impossible to avoid it since it's an official remake. Everything, from the house to frame by frame, all the scenes looked the same, except the cast and it's set in the present world with the daily life's modern gadgets. If you had not seen the 80s film, then there's a little chance you might like it. Though it was not a serious horror movie, or a scary movie to consider, still quite enjoyable like a dark comedy in parts. But I recommend the old one.

Really? Sam Rockwell? He did not fit in the role, just okay though. And the kids, did not impress me as like the original movie. The only upgrade in this new version was the technology, CRT monitors to LED kind of stuffs. I expected a major, at least a bit alteration in the story or the screenplay that sets in a different circumstances and the location. That could have been a lot better. Disappoints for those who loved the first version. However, that movie deserved to be remade, and I did not think it would end like this. Hoping for a better sequel, but I'm already feeling that would end in the hands of the second string cast and crew which could be a cheap horror-thrill.

5/10

talisencrw

7 /10

I had huge reservations about watching this remake, which I felt was completely unnecessary. It wasn't as bad as I had anticipated, and that the bad reviews at the time gave me the impression I should fear or avoid watching it. The special effects were pretty good, and Sam Rockwell, Jared Harris and Jane Adams (how wonderful it was to see her again, after her exceptional work in 'Happiness'!) sold the film for me. I knew what to expect after liking, but not loving, director Gil Kenan's earlier animated 'Monster House', but I was intrigued how his energetic directing would transfer to live-action work.

I think they could have made it more suspenseful and scary, but I'm not really sure that was their intention. I think they were going for a family experience with some thrills, chills and laughs...such as the recent 'Ghostbusters' remake was going for. If that was the case, then in that regard it was quite successful. I'm looking forward to re-watching this eventually with my 13-year-old son, horror-film aficionado, Julian, who like me adored the original.

If I was to make the perfect 'Poltergeist' film, I would have taken the same exact Steven Spielberg script and simply updated the special effects. I think that would have been a more successful approach.

Dark Jedi

4 /10

The movie blurb is written by some 20th Century Fox representative. I would guess that the person in question has not even watched the original movie. “Legendary film makers”? What a load of bull! These people have not produced anything really worth watching and this movie certainly do not improve on that score. I mean, how dumb are these people from 20th Century Fox? I certainly hope the audience are not dumb enough to fall for this obvious lie. Judging from the, well deserved mediocre score on various review sites I guess they did not.

Anyway, as for the movie. It is a bleak (cheap) shadow of the original. It has absolutely zero of the charm that the original movie had and, most importantly, none of the characters had anything of the charisma that the original characters had. The father is a total dumbass and an irresponsible at that. The mother could by just any Hollywood style housewife.

When you finally think that something interesting would happen, that is when the ghost hunter enters the scene, it just falls flat again. He is just totally lacking in appeal. He is neither a bad ass nor is he mysterious or anything else that makes him worth watching.

There are just so much things wrong with the story as well. How can this guy afford and get a one for a house when he apparently do not seem to have a job? He even manages to go for another house in the end after his original one apparently got shredded. How bloody dumb is the script writer? In the original it was a new neighbourhood which explained the “troubles”. In this one it is not which means that the script writer obviously had zero understanding of the original plot which brings us back to the same question again. What the f…?

There are some half decent CGI scenes in this movie but the same can be said for a lot of things coming out of the movie industry nowadays (well with the exception of SyFy productions of course).

I would say that as a TV-movie it would have been above average. As a remake of a classic it totally falls flat. I am happy that I watched it at home and did not spend time going to a theatre watching it.

r96sk

r96sk

5 /10

Lame horror.

<em>'Poltergeist'</em> offers nothing. It may not be an absolutely awful watch, but there's nothing about this that's good unfortunately. The story is largely predictable and plain, none of the cast give anything close to a performance that's worth remembering. There aren't many, if any, scares either - not great for a film in this genre.

As for the onscreen talent, it's slim pickings... not even Jared Harris' late appearance could save things. If I had to pick a standout, away from Harris, it would be Sam Rockwell. The two youngest kids, Kyle Catlett and Kennedi Clements, aren't terrible in fairness.

Not one I'll be revisiting. Yawnful.

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