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IMDb rating 7.3
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Critic Kim Newman
rated 8

A surprisingly yet successfully restrained lesson in how to haunt a house.

Read full review at Empire
Critic Peter Bradshaw
rated 10

...this film can still throw the furniture around.

Read full review at The Guardian
Anders Korsgaard Pedersen
rated 8

To worlds meet. Family movies and horror. It's absurd but actually works very well.

1 week ago
Michael Thomsen
rated 7

Produceret af steven Spielberg, og minder meget om en Spielbergfilm. Næsten en familie-gyser, men også kun næsten... ret scary.

2 years ago
Ronny Svensson
rated 6

Mannen bakom mästerverket Texas Chainsaw Massacre gör sin breda Hollywoodrulle med hjälp av Spielberg och det blir lite lamt utan vass egg men en klart underhållande skräckis.

7 months ago
Critic Andreas Samuelson
rated 10

En av de kusligaste, häftigaste - och mest barntillåtna - rysarna ur sin genre.

Read full review at Moviezine

Cast & Crew

Tobe Hooper
Director
Frank Welker
As Additional Dialogue Replacement (voice)
Allan Graf
As Neighbor
James Karen
As Mr. Teague
JoBeth Williams
As Diane Freeling
Craig T. Nelson
As Steve Freeling

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In a quiet suburban town, a family's home becomes a battleground for malevolent spirits. led by an ancient entity known as The Beast. As the ghosts become more aggressive, abducting their youngest daughter Carol Anne, the family turns to parapsychologists and a spiritual medium for help. With the entrance to other dimensions located in the children's bedroom closet, the family's only hope lies in a dangerous rescue mission through the portal. Will they be able to save Carol Anne from the clutches or The Beast?

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Poltergeist include Near Dark, Dawn of the Dead, Possession, Prince of Darkness, The Awakening, Alison's Birthday.

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Poltergeist was released in theaters on June 4, 1982.