Magical creatures in Harry Potter harbor an attraction to imagery morbid and melancholy. Ghosts are very sensitive about their condition: when the Ministry initially classified them as sentient creatures with full legal rights, they claimed that the term was insensitive and received a separate "Spirit Division", apparently to control the activities and haunting locations of troublesome ghosts (as when Myrtle was forced to haunt the place of her death (Hogwarts) after she had disrupted the wedding of the brother of Olive Hornby, a girl who had teased her at school). Named Ghost characters: Peeves, the Hogwarts poltergeist, is not considered a ghost, but an "indestructible
Poltergeist (2015 film) enjoyable ride. It's good fun. But it left me befuddled", adding: "Why would anyone want to remake "Poltergeist" in the first place?". Writing in "The Daily Telegraph", Mike McCahill called the film "an efficient scare-machine". Bilge Ebiri wrote in "New York" magazine: "This new "Poltergeist" isn't anything special... But it's not a travesty, and that feels like cause for brief celebration". Other critics took a more skeptical view of the film. Writing a review for "The Village Voice", Alan Scherstuhl stated, ""Poltergeist 2015" is to "Poltergeist '82" what today's shipped-frozen-to-the-store Pizza Hut dough is to the kneaded-on-site pies the chain's