In the whole, the original “Poltergeist” film is about suburban chaos—an almost-palpable, truly American dread that has the film’s creators, Spielberg and Hooper, jump in on a cutesy little feud on who’s-who to stake claim on a nice minute of Joe Dante glory. (I’m on team Spielberg, just to set things
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Sam Rockwell in the midst of angry spirits in ‘Poltergeist’
Under extreme and extraordinary circumstances, Sam Rockwell stars along with Rosemarie DeWitt and Jared Harris in the Gil Kenan-directed Poltergeist, a story of an ordinary family dealing with unexpected house guests in their newly bought home. Set in America’s nondescript suburbs, the young family-of-five move into a new home only to
