POLTERGEIST (2015)

POLTERGEIST (2015). Gil Kenan, dir. David Linsay-Abaire, script. Steven Spielberg, story. Sam Rami, producer (one of four). Kalina Ivanov, prod. design. USA: MGM, Ghost House Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment, et al. (Prod), / 20th Century Fox Film Corporation (US theatrical dist.), 2015. See IMDb for additional production details.

Ghost story summarized by 20th C. Fox copywriters with, " Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi and director Gil Kenan reimagine and contemporize the classic tale" — most specifically the |1982 movie — "about a family whose suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her." As with POLTERGEIST (1982), relevant here for a TV screen as a portal to a supernatural ghost world, but even more so than the original for combining images of the uncanny with images of 20th-c. high-tension power lines, Ghostbuster paraphernalia, and video technology, along with 21st-c. media "platforms" from laptops to smartphones and GPS devices to a mini-cam mounted on a toy drone hovercraft: which significantly passes into The World Beyond through a portal in the back of a US closet (cf. and contrast well-known portal into C. S. Lewis's Narnia in the back of an English | wardrobe).

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