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In 1982's Poltergeist, a little girl sits before a snowy TV
set, hands on the screen patty-cake style, looking like she might be
somehow pulled into it. (She is.) In Gil Kenan's 2015 remake, the image
is upgraded with fancier apparitions and a much thinner television. But
the story is generally the same: handsome three-kid family moves to a
new house built on a cemetery (what is it about cemeteries and suburban
real estate?); displaced spirits inhabit household objects (and one
tree) to lash out against and terrify the family. The rules don't make a
whole lot of sense, but Kenan and producer Sam Raimi keep the affair
lighthearted. Leaning heavily on the charm of Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie
DeWitt as the parents, the story is shallow but brief, more startling
than scary and, overall, a pretty harmless way to spend 90 minutes.
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