How not to make a horror film
Always going for "big effects" when a subtler approach would have been so much scarier. I'll concede this is a fun movie though it's nowhere near the classic it should, and could, have been. Maybe if Spielberg had had less to work with, like he did in "Jaws" and "Duel," he might have turned out something that favored suggestiveness over splashiness a lot more (but then again a less fx-heavy approach would have assured "Poltergeist" of not raking in nearly as much money as it did).
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