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Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Films was

Poltergeist (1982)

I don't even want to write about it.

It is so manipulative that I watched the whole thing.

But I am not happy about it.

It is one of the 'best' because it has Spielberg's fingerprints all over it.

Everyone kisses his ass.

A good horror flick needs to be gritty and this is not gritty. It is overbuilt.

High production values.

The family is too nice, they have too much stuff, there is a lot of diversion by 'cute'.

In short, it sucks.

I will give it a 2 out of Netflix5.

There is not one thing that I didn't see coming. Well, mostly.

Labels: best films, stinkers