Poltergeist (1982)

• Year: 1982
• Released: 04 Jun 1982
• Country: United States
• Adwords: Nominated for 3 Oscars. 4 wins & 8 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084516/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Poltergeist
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/poltergeist
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG
• Genre: Horror, Thriller
• Runtime: 114 min
• Writer: Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais, Mark Victor
• Director: Tobe Hooper
• Cast: JoBeth Williams, Heather O’Rourke, Craig T. Nelson
• Keywords: parent child relationship, family relationships, haunted house, dying and death, paranormal phenomena,

	7.3/10
	79/100
	87% – Critics
	79% – Audience

Poltergeist Storyline

Craig T. Nelson stars as Steve Freeling, the main protagonist, who lives with his wife, Diane, (JoBeth Williams) and their three children, Dana (Dominique Dunne), Robbie (Oliver Robins), and Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke), in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken dishes and furniture moving around by itself. However, a tree comes alive and takes Robbie through his bedroom window, and Carol Anne is abducted by ghosts. Realizing that something evil haunts his home, Steve calls in a team of parapsychologists led by Dr. Lesh (Beatrice Straight) to investigate, hoping to get Carol Anne back, so he can remove his family from the house before it’s too late.

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“They’re heeeere!”

Sometimes to judge a film fairly you really need to consider the time at which it was made and what film-making technology existed at that time. This was the first big budget film to really tackle the subject of paranormal investigation, and at the time it was made it was seamless and sleek. It would be easy for people today to put it down for some of the early 1980’s effects, but let’s flip this perspective around and consider that no CGI what-so-ever was used. But at the same time, “Poltergeist” has a strangely family-friendly vibe. It was directed by Tobe Hooper, but it has the unmistakable fingerprints of producer/writer Steven Spielberg all over it. It focuses on an ordinary, harmless suburban family living their usual lives (their biggest problem is the death of a pet bird), which is suddenly thrown into chaos by outside forces. And unlike most horror movies, there isn’t even a lot of violence… well, except for one grotesque hallucination.

Don’t expect the usual gore and typical shocks you see in all modern horror films these days, Poltergeist is not about that. With all of the elements of visual effects, sound, acting, directing (Tobe Hooper) and writers (Steven Spielberg) this is one film that achieves everything you want to see in a motion picture. Anyway, Jo Beth Williams and Craig T. Nelson are great in this film. They have real chemistry. You believe they love each other and are a team. The kids are pretty great, too. It’s actually quite a thoughtful movie and even has an odd warmth to it. Though there are a few scary moments. The final fifteen minutes are played out to such effect, that one could call it pure horror.

Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

Ghost train ride put on film

The Spielberg-produced haunted house horror POLTERGEIST is one of those perennial favourites, one of those classic 1980s films that survives down the years, my appreciation growing as each decade passes. It’s one of those films I saw and loved as a kid, although I found it very frightening; THAT bathroom scene has to go down in history as one of the most purely disgusting ever put on screen. It’s highly stylised, and Hollywoodised with it; if you’re looking for something more realistic and disturbing, go check out THE ENTITY instead. This one’s all about the spectacle, a fairground ghost train ride put on film.

Elsewise, POLTERGEIST works very efficiency. There’s the slow, creepy build-up, kept realistic and almost-believable, especially the effective stuff with the sliding chairs; intrigue builds upon intrigue, with some nice comic relief inbetween, and then everything lets rip for the pyrotechnic shriek-show in the second half. This latter stage is a masterwork of special effects technology, from miniatures to superimposed imagery and prosthetic effects work; I don’t usually care for films that rely on FX too heavily but I’ll make an exception for this one.

And what a cast, too! Heather O’Rourke must be the epitome of the innocent young American girl caught up in a world of evil, and both Nelson and Williams excel as the exasperated parents who gradually become more deranged as the tale progresses. Of course, Zela Rubenstein’s scene-stealing medium is remembered for a reason, and there’s a nice little cameo for RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD’s James Karen, too. Come the ending, with those graves popping out of the ground, well just wow: this truly is a great little film, that stands proud among the rest of the classics of the ’80s.

Funny and scary, one of the best ghost story

Steven (Craig T. Nelson) and Diane Freeling (JoBeth Williams) live in a Californian suburb with their kids Dana (Dominique Dunne), Robbie (Oliver Robins) and Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke). He’s a real estate agent for the development that they’re living in. Carol Anne starts hearing the TV people. There are strange things happening in the house. At first, it’s just fun and games. Then it becomes more sinister when Carol Anne disappears. They invite a group of paranormal researchers from UC Irvine Dr. Lesh, Ryan, and Marty Case. More strange things happen and they call in spiritual medium Tangina Barrons (Zelda Rubinstein).

This starts off with a traditional family, a cute little girl, and some funny moments. Then there is the superior acting, the scary stuff and the great effects for its time. It is one of the best ghost story horrors. There is just something about a little girl in danger. Effects have improved over the years but few have been done better.