‘Monster House’s Gil Kenan Finds New Haunt: He’ll Helm MGM ‘Poltergeist’ Remake

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• Sure, it’s the Spielberg name everyone associates with POLTERGEIST- and his fingerprints certainly ARE all over it- but the movie had Tobe Hooper in the director’s chair, back when that MEANT something.Hooper was. I will argue, the flat-out best horror director of the 1970s (and possibly the WORST horror director of the 1990s, but that’s another story), and although there have been numerous sequels and remakes of those primo early films of his, NO ONE has successfully followed up on a Tobe Hooper film (not even Hooper himself!)

  Comment by cst — Thursday March 7, 2013 @ 7:29am PST  Reply to this post

• Poltergeist – Birthplace of my clown fear/terror.

  (I also NEVER crawl under my bed anymore. Thanks a lot, Steven!)

  Comment by Caroline-Genevieve — Thursday March 7, 2013 @ 8:28am PST  Reply to this post

• A remake of Schindler’s List? Perhaps now including the rumored missing 8th page of the list? “Even more listier!” Or perhaps using a new hook – reimaged for more contemporary audience since Nazis are passe’ now. Perhaps set in kindergarten classroom? Or anthropomorphic talking cats?

  1941? Reset for Overseas Contingency Operations starring Will Farrell? Seriously, there’s great humor in extraordinary rendition, torture, and targeted assassination of US citizens on American soil without due process.

  Silly but True

  Comment by Silly but True — Thursday March 7, 2013 @ 8:46am PST  Reply to this post

• It is idiocy to remake Poltergeist, it was perfect to begin with! Absolute idiocy!

  Comment by Jay — Thursday March 7, 2013 @ 9:13am PST  Reply to this post

• There is nothing in their library that MGM will NOT remake.

  Comment by la plume — Friday March 8, 2013 @ 7:09am PST  Reply to this post