Gil Kenan’s Poltergeist remake haunted by a PG-13 rating

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 12 years ago

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

This is one we can't get too up in arms about: The POLTERGEIST remake, which has been spookily reticent to show itself to us, has been given a PG-13 rating by the overlords at the MPAA. The first film was rated PG and scared us all out of our wits when we were kids, so this is no big deal.

The new take on the Tobe Hooper-directed, Steven Spielberg-produced classic earned its rating for "intense frightening sequences, brief suggestive material, and some language."

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