POLTERGEIST (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Sam Rockwell (Moon), Jared Harris (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married), Saxon Sharbino (Trust Me), Kyle Catlett (The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet), Kennedi Clements (Rogue), Nicholas Braun (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Susan Heyward (Mother of George), Jane Adams (Little Children), Soma Bhatia (Monkey in the Middle)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Gil Kenan (Monster House), director; David Lindsay-Abaire (Oz the Great and Powerful), writer; Nathan Kahane (The Strangers), Roy Lee (The LEGO Movie), Sam Raimi (Evil Dead) and Robert G. Tapert (Army of Darkness), producers; Marc Streitenfeld (Prometheus), composer; Javier Aguirresarobe (Blue Jasmine), cinematographer; Jeff Betancourt (Harold and Kumar Get The Munchies) and Bob Murawski (Spider-Man), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

The Bowen family finds that their suburban house has been invaded by angry spirits, who during one of their escalated attacks take the youngest daughter Madison (Clements). Now, parents Eric (Rockwell) and Amy (DeWitt) must team up with eccentric medium Carrigan Burke (Harris) if they are to have some hope of reuniting their family…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

A contemporary update of an 80s family horror classic, Poltergeist brings the scares into a new age of suburbia and family values.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 22ND MAY 2015

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