Parents Guide for
Poltergeist (1982) More at IMDbPro »

A female character's shirt is lifted by spirits (non-sexually), although no nudity is shown.

A female is seen scantily-clad in a few scenes.

In one scene, a character graphically peels off his face and parts of it fall into a sink. His bloody skull is shown.

A boy is almost eaten by a tree (shown bloody afterwards) and strangled by a clown.

People are shown drenched in blood.

A steak explodes, revealing maggots.

A pool is filled with decomposing skeletons.

Coffins burst from the ground, and open to show rotten corpses.

Some minor curse words are uttered, but nothing strong. The s-word is used and so is son of a b***h.

Parents smoke pot in one scene.

Although no deaths are evident in the film, it has many scenes that place children in threatening conditions. Several scenes might also be considered too strong for the youngest audiences. One scene features scores of skeletons. Children who fear clowns probably shouldn't watch.

Although the film is rated PG, some of the above content is pretty intense and parents should probably consider some of it on par with a PG-13.