re: need recommendations for horror movie

If you're going to mention Poltergeist, I might add The Frighteners too. It's a likable movie, though not quite what you'd say was good. It's mostly a very PG movie for the most part but I think they were told that one pivotal shot was going to make it R so they decided to add in a bunch of other gorey stuff but it's not bad at all compared to today's movies. It was Michael J Fox's last movie before he went to television.