Poltergeist is a big, special-effects-laden production that's long on time and short on human interest. When a typical husband and wife (Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams) and their children move into the suburban home of their dreams, they find it instead to be the stuff of nightmares as weird happenings abound. The television begins to take control of their youngest child (Heather O'Rourke) and eventually pulls her through the screen. A diminutive medium (Zelda Rubenstein) informs them their house is built on the hub of a Native American burial site, and together they work to extract the child from the spirit world. Too tame for most adult horror fans, Poltergeist is still too scary for children.