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Summary: Poltergeist-The Best
Review: I've just found out about the death of the late Heather O'Rourke and I saw her for the first time when Poltergeist 3 was TV. As i had'nt seen the first and second I searched everywhere to find it and watched Poltergeist. I did'nt think I was going to like it as it was an old movie, but, i did. I absolutely loved it. The acting is brilliany, everyone is great and the way it is set it is like it's real life. I really loved this movie, but Poltergeist III was definately the best !!!
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Summary: It's Chilling in another way.
Review: It seems that a Hex was placed on this movie, and some very bad terrible things did happen to two of it;s lead performers, one cast member was murdered the same year that this movie was released, and several years later, Heather O" Rourke also died from an illness, at a young age. Very tragic news and this has made the movie to send a chill down the spine, but not for the scary effects, but for the tragic outcomes of some of the cast members.
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Summary: Poltergiest Will Haunt Audiences!
Review: The movie "Poltergiest" is based on the supernatural. The movie begins in Cresta Verde -- a suburb where the Freeling house looks like most other homes in the neighborhood, and was built on a cemetary by a developer (Freeling's boss) who fails to have the bodies relocated before approving the construction of several new homes. Freeling later learns about the cemetary from his boss. When his five year old daughter, Carol Anne (Late Actress Heather O'Rourke) hears voices coming from their television, voices that belongs to unrested, and angry spirits caught between the physical and spiritual world, terrorizing the family out of their home. Can Diane (Actress JoBeth Williams) and Steven Freeling (Actor Craig T. Nelson) get their abducted little girl back from the paranormal? Or will her soul stay among the living dead forever? Find out for yourself when you perchase this movie on DVD or VHS.
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Summary: A movie to watch alone in the dark.
Review: I can rcall when I first saw this classic a few years ago, and I did not know what to make of it when it was over. The movie starts off with the family dog walking through the house early in the morning befor anyone has waken up yet, and just that alone is kind of sellbinding in a way. The visual effects in the flim are great and ahead of its time, and will stay in your mind awhile after watching them.
I think the scareist part the film is the part were the mother is sucked aginst the bedroom walls by an invisible force.
Stephen Spielberg and Tobie Hopper are masters at science Fiction
and I hightly recomend this to any horror fan.
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Summary: the nightmare begins...
Review: POLTERGEIST remains one of the all-time classic horror films ever created, credited no doubt to Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg.Here we meet the all-American Freeling family; the parents (Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams), older daughter (the late Dominique Dunn), younger brother (Oliver Robins) and little Carol Anne (the late Heather O'Rourke). Things become strange when storms and household occurances wreak terror over the household, culminating in the abduction of Carol Anne through a portal in the closet. A kindly investigator of the paranormal (Beatrice Straight) and medium Tangina Barrons (Zelda Rubinstein) are called in to clean the house of the spirits that plague it and to rescue Carol Anne from the "TV people"... A heart-stopping adventure with breathtaking special effects. Followed by POLTERGEIST II-THE OTHER SIDE and finally POLTERGEIST 3 which was released after Heather O'Rourke's untimely death.
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Summary: Glad To know I wasn't the only one scared by a stuffed clown
Review: I like this movie even though some things in it really freaked me out, it's nice to know that I'm not the only person who got freaked out by that stuffed clown! Poltergeist is a good film though and despite the stuffed clown I would buy the movie on vhs or dvd.
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Summary: There Ghost The Neighborhood
Review: Next to Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film THE SHINING, POLTERGEIST is one of the very few horror films from the 1980s that has any business being called a masterpiece. This parapsychological suspense thriller from co-writer/co-producer Steven Spielberg and director Tobe Hooper (of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE fame) offers plenty of chills, thrills, macabre humor, and superlative special effects. Like a lot of Spielberg projects, POLTERGEIST involves a middle-class suburban family--in this case the Frelengs (JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson), who live in Cuesta Verde Estates, a Southern California development built by Nelson's real estate firm. One night, however, they discover that their home has been invaded by poltergeists, or noisy ghosts. Their young daughter Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke), a clairvoyant, seems to be in contact with these ghosts, whom she calls "TV people", because they eminate from the family television. Then the ghosts abduct her from her bedroom via her closet door, spiriting her away to a netherworld somewhere between life and death. This forces Williams and Nelson to seek the help of a team of parapsychologists, led by Beatrice Straight and Zelda Rubinstein, to somehow get "in touch" with O'Rourke. The unconventional means used to get O'Rourke back from this ghostly storm involve tying a rope around Williams, who ventures right into the middle of "the light". When she comes out magically through the living room ceiling, she has O'Rourke in her arms. The house is "clean", or so everyone thinks. But in the finale, the ghosts return to exact an even more terrible vengeance on the family. Earlier, it was revealed by Nelson's boss (James Karen) that all of Cuesta Verde was built over what had once been a massive cemetary. The climax has tombstones jutting up out of the ground and the swimming pool, plus skeletons and corpses. Nelson and Williams manage to flee from Cuesta Verde alive, but they are now homeless. The alleged behind-the-scenes artistic conflict that took place between Hooper and Spielberg does not seem to have affected the quality of POLTERGEIST. Although some scenes are gruesome enough to jeopardize the film's 'PG' rating (originally, it nearly got an 'R'), the film mostly avoids the worst gory excesses of the slasher movies of the 80s in favor of suspense and special effects. The greatest element involved is the presence of a family unit an audience can believe in. Special credit must be given to O'Rourke, whose performance here is one of the best ever put on by a child actor in any movie. Hooper's excellent handling of the material is matched by the special effects work of Industrial Light and Magic, as well as the superlative music score by veteran Jerry Goldsmith. Although followed by two vastly inferior sequels and a TV series that had absolutely no connection to it other than the name, POLTERGEIST remains one of the most effectively scary films of modern times and thus comes strongly recommended.
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Summary: AN EXCELLENT FILM!
Review: This is a really good film that has great special effects,an oscar worthy performance by JoBeth Williams,and a great storyline about a family's home that is invaded by ghosts.
The dvd isnt bad.Its quality is really good.Sowhat if it has a lack of extras? It is cool that it has both widescreen and full screen formats. ON one side of the disc is widescreen and other is Full.Take your pick!
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Summary: "They're Here!!....."
Review: Is there a better duo to concoct a scary, haunted house ghost story than Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper?. No, I don't think so. There has also been some controversy over who directed what. There are rumors that Spielberg had stepped in and directed some of it himself. I guess we won't really know. Anyways, the movie is about The Freeling family who have moved into a new home into a new housing development that looks like it's in the middle of nowhere. Suddenly, strange things begin to happen. Their not all that bad at first. Then, it starts getting more serious... and dangerous. The family learn their house is haunted and is on top of a burial ground. Isn't that always the way?. Things go from bad to worse when little Carol Anne(wonderfully played by the late Heather 'O' Rourke)is kidnapped by the nasty ghosties and kept in their spiritual world. Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams are on hand as the haunted parents. They give very effective performances. There are numerous scares and classic scenes throughout this rollercoaster ride of a scary movie. The scene with the clown?....oh my god. I still have nightmares. I guarantee you will too. The film is so chilling and scary, you'll have a hard time remembering it's fake cause the film is done so incredibly well. It is, without a doubt, one of the best scary movies of the last 20 years. Right there with "Halloween" and the original "A Nightmare On Elm Street". There is also said to be a curse against the film. Dominique Dunne, who played the oldest sister, was murdered by her boyfriend. A few years later Heather 'O' Rourke died from intestinal blockage. It's very, very sad. The film spawned two lackluster sequels that ruined this classic's image. Horror veteran James Karen also stars. See this scary classic tonight!. It's a must!.
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Summary: The Best "PG" Rated Horror Movies Besides JAWS.
Review: Well Made Supernatural thriller is original and frightening and cloud bee called Steven Spielberg's mote Dark Film (with SCHINDLER'S LIST). The Freelings (JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson) learn why they got a good deal on their tract house when it attacks them and their daughter (Heather O' Rourke) is eaten by the T.V. (or something like that). Made 2 years before the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET series, the scares are thrilling and mind popping.
Good movie, look for the DVD or the "Letterboxed" tape. Director Tobe Hooper also made the thrilling teen cut-them-up classic THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and writer Steven Spielberg made E.T. the same year this was made. 1982. MGM. 114 MINS. Rated PG (For Horror, Language, and for some Violence.) Academy Awards: Best Original Score (Jerry Goldsmith).
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