10 Horror Movie Villains Who Were Totally Right
7. The Ghosts - Poltergeist
The central antagonists in Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist are the seemingly malevolent ghosts who terrorise the Freeling family in their home in the middle of the Cuesta Verde housing development. But the fact of the matter is that Cuesta Verde is eventually revealed to have been built on a former cemetery, with the graves apparently being moved to a new location..
In reality, only the gravestones were relocated, meaning that these houses were all built on top of abandoned graves, with most of the spirits simply being confused entities desperately trying to cross over to the other side.
There's really only one malevolent spirit among them, referred to as The Beast, which more overtly torments the Freelings and tries to stop its fellow ghosts from crossing over. As for the rest, they're just befuddled entities desperately trying to go on their way, and any fear or distress they cause the human family is by pure accident.