Poltergeist Revisits This Mortal Plane Through TV Series
Poltergeist is still a firecracker of a film, and a lot of people make a habit of watching it every Halloween season. Of course with any landmark film comes a wave of imitators, some bearing the actual name. There were sequels that attempted to continue the Poltergeist story, just as there were for The Exorcist and many other scary movies that weren’t so scary the second time around. There was also a remake of the original Poltergeist in 2015, the marketing of which focused entirely on the clown. Now someone’s ambitious enough to attempt making an entire TV series out of the thing. Variety reports that MGM Studios has hired Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey to put together a concept for a Poltergeist TV series. Will the same little girl get sucked into a spectral dimension every week? “Oh no, not again!” Believe it or not, there already WAS a Poltergeist TV series, produced for the Showtime channel in the late 90s. It was called Poltergeist: The Legacy and had
