Het rustige leven van de familie Feeling wordt verstoord door geesten. Op het eerste gezicht lijken de geesten vriendelijk te zijn: ze verplaatsen objecten als amusement voor het gezin. Maar dan worden ze gemeen en beginnen ze het gezin te terroriseren. Ze gaan zelfs zover dat ze hun dochter kidnappen.
Nee, helaas is Poltergeist nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Directing | Tobe Hooper | Director |
| Art | James H. Spencer | Production Design |
| Production | Frank Marshall | Producer |
| Production | Marci Liroff | Casting |
| Writing | Michael Grais | Screenplay |
| Production | Mike Fenton | Casting |
| Editing | Michael Kahn | Editor |
| Camera | Matthew F. Leonetti | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Steven Spielberg | Screenplay |
| Sound | Jerry Goldsmith | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Steven Spielberg | Producer |
| Art | Cheryal Kearney | Set Decoration |
| Production | Jane Feinberg | Casting |
| Crew | Glenn Randall Jr. | Stunt Coordinator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dorothy J. Pearl | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Richard L. Anderson | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Writing | Mark Victor | Screenplay |
| Crew | Jeff Jarvis | Special Effects |
| Costume & Make-Up | Toni-Ann Walker | Makeup Artist |
| Visual Effects | Milton Gray | Visual Effects |
| Writing | Steven Spielberg | Story |
| Production | Kathleen Kennedy | Associate Producer |
| Visual Effects | Art Vitello | Animation |
| Sound | Mark Mangini | Sound Effects Editor |
| Visual Effects | Paul Huston | Visual Effects |
| Crew | Jeannie Epper | Stunts |
| Directing | Bob Roe | Second Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | John Bruno | Animation Supervisor |
| Crew | Bob Herron | Stunts |
| Visual Effects | Richard Edlund | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Crew | Bobby Clark | Stunts |
| Camera | John R. Leonetti | First Assistant Camera |