Do you mean "why" as in why spoil the memory of a good thing or, "why" as in why bother since the first one was one of the worst movies ever made and doesn't have in it a single legitimately scary moment where you think someone might actually die?

Im goin with that second thing.

scary? not

There are a number of actresses that I find quite sexy--Kate Winslet, Julianne Moore, Angelina Jolie, etc.--all of whom are quite talented and all of whom as often as not appear nude in their films in a manner that is not unpleasasnt. Still, neither their presence nor that of any other star, male or female, is enough to make me spend time and money on a badly reviewed movie.

Poltergeist was the pinnacle of scary movies for me. But I was 8 when I saw it. And so I was a young boy who slept in a large second floor bedroom with a mean looking tree right outside the window.

But something about that scare fixed me as I believe it was also the last time I was scared by ANY movie. Movies can induce in me pretty much every other emotion but fear is not one of them. I can be startled, but not scared.

Seriously? You guys don't think this movie is scary? As Alex mentioned, the kid with the evil tree, and the evil clown doll scene? What about when they're getting sucked into the closet? I swear, I could mention most every scene in that movie as wonderfully shot and pretty damn scary. It also has the best ending of any haunted house movie I've ever seen (not that I've seen a lot of them, but still.) The effects hold up, too.

OMG, that movie scared the CRAP out of me when I first saw it, and static-filled TV screens gave me the willies for weeks.

But its brilliance lies in the comedy gold scattered liberally throughout. A movie can scare you only once, but can make you laugh forever. My friends and I had something like 38 lines from this movie that we'd say on a rotating basis, and the film can crack me up ever four minutes to this day.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE PoLterGeisT!! :cheers:

Not scary.

seriously.....but then dont put too much stock in my opinion. Im the guy who couldnt sit through Devils Rejects without laughing my a$$ off the whole time.

Well, I guess I meant it as it's a perfectly fine popcorn fun horror flick that doesn't need to be done again so soon. What they really should do is do a decent sequel to it. None of the sequels were any good.

The clown doll, the kid-eating tree, the swimming pool full of supermodels.... yeah, I found it extremely scary when I was 10. Scared stiff each and every time I went back to see it...
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I give a pass to you folks who first saw it as a kid, but that doesn't make it scary for real. As a kid in Queens I would watch Japanese monster movies in the middle of the night and then look out my 7th floor apartment window to make sure the Empire State Building was still there.

I'll agree that the movie did a somewhat competent job with a few snapshots of childhood fears. But scary in a point A to point B way? In a "Gee, I'm worried that these people I care about might not make it out alive" way? No.