6. Poltergeist
At least 75% of recent US horror movies have focussed around paranormal happenings occurring in middle-class American homes, and quite frankly they're getting a bit tedious now. Not only are there way too many of them clogging up our cinemas, none of them are in the same league as Tobe Hooper's 1982 horror masterpiece Poltergeist, which set the standard. Although the remake, which is pencilled in for a 2014 release, has an impressive cast (combining the talents of Sam Rockwell, Jared Harris and Rosemarie DeWitt), this has "conventional 21st century supernatural horror movie" written all over it. The director, Gil Kenan, isn't all that well-known and his career doesn't consist of a huge catalogue of films - the closest thing that he has directed to a horror film is the animated flick Monster House, which doesn't exactly fill us with optimism. Poltergeist will muddle in with the inevitable haunted house horror films that are going convolute our screens next year - no doubt it will gross a decent number, and maybe even spawn sequels, but I incline anyone that hasn't seen the original to seek it out before they see this one.