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Craig T. Nelson
JoBeth Williams
Heather O'Rourke
Richard Lawson
James Karen
Beatrice Straight

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A typical suburban family is first amused, then terrorized as ghosts and other paranormal phenomena take over their home.

09/09/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

They're here!!!!!

In the seventies, Horror was the hot "genre" to make a film in. Musicals and family films were good fun but many people wanted danger and chills while watching a film that combines terror with fear. A combination most popular with The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The films could be good fun but the plot was as threadbare as the acting. Poltergiest is a film that can appeal to many more people then simple horror movies. It is centred around a family of different ages. It starts pleasantly yet the youngest child Carol Anne talks unnaturally to a dead television screen. Slowly everything blends the music is Oscar worthy and brilliant for the mood. The setting is not isolated as such but the film is in two different worlds. The real life and the an in-between land of people wanting to move away ...

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3.5/4 

05/04/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Woah.

'Poltergeist' is one of the most frightening ghost films I have ever seen, it's far ahead of it's time when it comes to special effects and the film never slows down, constantly hitting us with more and more terror as the film moves on. Director Tobe Hooper works together with producer/writer Steven Spielberg, whom seems to get more credit on the film then Hooper does, but that really doesnt matter because overall, 'Poltergeist' is one fantastic film. Though now that I'm older, the film isnt as scary as it used to be, but it works with using technology to create the horror, specifically television. We live in a world where everyone watches TV everyday, it's even lead to loss of vision and complete paranoia. The ghosts are introduced through the television set, specifically one channel whe...

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4/4 

04/25/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

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A good horror to not ignore. It's got its own unique appeal. What would you do if your house happens to sit upon the very portals of hell? When I saw this the first time, it scared the living soul out of me. Over time, however, it eventually changed genre from horror to ridiculous. But definitely entertaining.

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3/4 

11/07/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

this film is hilarious- constructions workers get away with catcalling the families daughter. this film almost made me cry- when they are communicating with their daughter through the television. this film made me jump- when that goddamn clown jumped from behind the boy. i knew he was there.

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3/4