If this doesn't scare you, no film ever will. Somewhere in the middle of a night of terror for a suburban American family, their cute little daughter seems to have been sucked into the TV, which has been left on by dozing (and dozy) Dad. This is only the beginning of the most sensational ghost story since The Haunting. If your nerves can stand the pounding director Tobe Hooper and producer/co-writer Steven Spielberg give them in the last hour of this, they're up to anything. And JoBeth Williams as Mum, braving monsters, corpses, poltergeists and even the jaws of Hell with shrieks of 'Take your hands off my babies! ' will tear you apart. The film provides one superbly engineered shock upon another; from writhing wraiths to gaping ghouls and sinister spectres, its story is an orgy of horrific action that never lets up for a moment. Truly frightening, even if it ends with a delightful chilly smile. The moral: never leave your TV set on at night.

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