If I have learned anything about the real estate industry from horror films it is that they will never learn not to mess with graveyards. People will do anything for a buck, even if this means building something that will be haunted for all eternity. How many people have to die for the real estate agents of the movie industry to learn that you don't mess with dead people?
Poltergeist is a well done film. Not too surprising considering it was written by Steven Spielberg (different director, though, naturally, many people make the mistake of assuming he is). Carrie Anne Freeling is a little girl that lives with her family in the suburbs. Life is good for the Freelings, until Carrie Anne begins to hear voices in the static of their television. These voices, it seems, are the voices of the dead that have begun to haunt the house. Eventually they take Carrie Anne and her parents begin searching for her in the house, along with the help of somewhat of a ghost fighting team (who ya gonna call?).
It eventually comes out that the people who built the house and the suburb moved a graveyard. Not just that, but they left the bodies and moved the headstones. Alas, a reason for the ghosts to be angry and haunt suburbia. Personally, I didn't think someone needed a reason to haunt suburbia. If ghosts are real and I become one, that's the first place I'm haunting. It seems justified.
I would say Poltergeist is a good Halloween movie. The special effects are from the 80's, so this should be kept in mind. It is possible this could make it less scary for you. But if it does, you can read about the supposed haunting of the actual people involved in the Poltergeist franchise. If you convince yourself hard enough, it may freak you out...
I know it's post Halloween. But one I can recommend and I still think is one of the best of the horror genre is "The Haunting" (1963) starring Claire Bloom and Julie Harris.
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