Amazon.com: What a combo! Tobe Hooper, the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, teamed up with family-oriented producer Steven Spielberg to make Poltergeist. The film is about a haunted suburban tract home in a development very much like the Arizona one in which Spielberg was raised. (Because it came out the same summer as Spielberg's E.T., it was tempting to see both movies as representing Spielberg's ambivalent feelings about childhood in suburbia. One was a fantasy, the other a nightmare.) Spielberg also cowrote the screenplay, which taps into primal, childlike fears of monsters under the bed, monsters in the closet, sinister clown faces, and all manner of things that go bump in the night. At first, some of the odd happenings in the house are kind of funny and amusing, but they grow gradually creepier until the film climaxes in a terrifying special-effects extravaganza when 5-year-old Carole Anne (Heather O'Rourke) is kidnapped by the spooks and held hostage in another dimension. Though not nearly as frightening as Hooper's magnum opus, or the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, which came along two years later, Poltergeist is one of the smartest and most entertaining horror pictures of its time. --Jim Emerson
Poltergeist 25th anniversary edition I purchased this disc hoping the remastering of it would be an improvement over the last dvd release. I compared the two versions and the 25th anniversary edition has cleaner lines, the fuzzy static has been completely eliminated and the colors are more vibrant. I am very pleased with this release and the trailer in the older release was nothing that I couldn't live without. I will continue to update my dvd collection as the older movies are remastered, it is worth every penny!
poltiguist movie, I was very pleased with the movie and with how fast it arrived at my home.
Poltergeist 25th Anniversary Edition Poltergeist is my favorite movie of all time. I've been waiting for an Anniversary edition for years! This edition is very disappointing as far as extras go. I gave it 3 stars for the picture and sound quality which have never been better! Where is the theatrical trailer? In the theatrical trailer for the movie, there is part of a deleted scene where everyone is looking at the tapes of the ghosts. They see a black shadow with red eyes and behind it the shadow of "the beast". Diane covers Robbie's eyes and screams "That thing is in there with my baby!" Steve has to pull her away from the video monitors. I'm sure there are other deleted scenes as I know there is an outtake. The scene where Diane is forced up on the ceiling was originally shot differently. There was a spider-like stain above her bed that she ended up being dragged across and there was supposed to be more of an emphasis on a "ghost rape". The spider-like stain was supposed to foreshadow what the children's closet ends up looking like. I've seen pictures of this scene with the spider-like stain and I have to say I like the cut in the movie much better. There are also plenty of documentaries that could've been included on this dvd. You can watch the Making Of Poltergeist on youtube. The MGM release at least had an 8 page booklet with production notes and photos! I hope Warner Bros will release a special edition of the movie in the future with a lot of the extras I've mentioned! There's been a long debate over the years of whether Steven Spielberg directed it instead of Tobe Hooper. I know Spielberg helped out as he did with other movies he produced.(The Goonies) Who cares who really directed it. Give the fans what they want!!!!
One of the best in horror. THEY'RE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who doesn't know that line??? If you don't, I pity you. Go rent this movie immediately. The acting is superb, the script amazing, the fx are good for its time. One of the creepiest and most interesting movies to emerge from the horror genre. Another horror masterpiece and a must see/must own. Highly recommended.
Classic Speilberg Lately I have been really craving a good suspense/horror film. And I could have sworn I had seen this before, but when I started watching it I realized I have not. And man am I glad now I have seen it.
It starts off with nice shots around the town where everything seems normal, and you can definitely tell Spielberg was directing this. The story evolves around a family in there home, who start to notice strange things happening around there house. At first the wife thinks it's amusing, some of the spirits seem to be playful, until one of the evil ones kidnaps there daughter and pulls her into the in between world.
The family then seek out help to get there daughter back, and all hell breaks lose.
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For a movie made in 1982, the visual FX are pretty good. Unlike if Spielberg had of made it today, it would be 90% CGI Overkill.
It's a great film, and just when you think it's over, it starts again and becomes a movie you are really not expecting.
I'm glad I realized now that I had not seen this before, or else I would kick myself. It is a great flick, and I can;t wait till I rush out and hire the sequels.
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