My husband and I went to school with Heather. She was very kind hearted, and very sweet to all of us. The day she passed hit us all like a ton of bricks. We all miss her.
I was born in '73 and I remember the young actresses when she also played a character in "Happy Days" . Plus, I remember when homes were being built to mirror each other....the 1980s were a great decade for movies, music, and there locations. How things have changed.
I love this movie. My husband's family has a huge tie to this movie. The Atlas truck in the moving scene was my father in laws truck. We have pictures of my husband as a child running around on the set and his dad with the crew. It's such a wonderful memory for him to watch this movie. His father is gone now and I know he treasures these movies and the memories. Thank you for covering this movie and Heather's life along with it. She was definately a great little actress for the short amount of time she had on this planet. Cheers🥂💜❤🌈🍭🦄🌸
Did you grow up in Simi Valley? I'm from Chicago and remember seeing Poltergeist as a kid and wondering where it was filmed. With the mountains it looked like Mars to me. I went to Simi Valley when I was in California and went to the house. I remember wondering where everyone who lived there worked? You can't get a home there for under a couple million. Lol
Being an eighties kid , I grew up with this movie , and whenever I see it - and the sequel - it transports me right back to those days of the mid eighties . My friend and I could rent any horror film we wanted from the local video store and we were only nine or ten. And we rented a ton of them. Those were the days ! And getting into room 209 , that's dedication to the cause !
My nosey ass neighbours know every time i use my garage door opener after 9pm. I can't imagine having a noisy poltergeist without law enforcement being involved
Dude, I'm Brazilian. Nowadays I live in Rio de Janeiro, but I was born and raised in a small town in the North of Brazil called Belém. All these iconic films are part of my childhood, and I have a lot of these curiosities: where they were filmed, what the locations are like nowadays, etc. That's why I've been crazy since I found your channel. I want to congratulate your work and thank you very much. Thank you and congratulations here from Brazil!
One of my favourite films since being a child I know every single line it's so hard to believe it's nearly 41 years old poor Heather and Dominque rest in peace beautiful girls 💖💖💔🙏
FUN FACT: All the interior shots were filmed on a sound stage in Hollywood - EXCEPT for the kitchen scenes. I found someone that was trick or treating back then in the 80’s and was invited into the house. He could see the kitchen was identical but the rest of the house looked a little different. It’s my absolute favorite horror film of ALL time. I’ve seen it well over 100 times since 82. If I hit the lottery, I’d build that house identical to the one from the movie (I found the upstairs and downstairs floor plans!)
That's so cool--you and me both! I've always wondered what the real house looked like on the inside, but could unfortunately never find any photos online, not even on Zillow. If I had the money and the opportunity presented itself, I'd buy that house and live in it in a heartbeat. There is something both eerie and nostalgic about that movie that is inextricably linked to my childhood. It left a huge impression on me and I've been obsessed with it ever since.
This film scared the life out of me as a child but still remains one of my favourite horror movies decades later. Thank you for an amazing trip down memory lane and seeing some of the films iconic locations 😁🙏
If I remember right it was Dirk Blocker who was the man on the bike in the beginning of the movie carrying the beer. His father was Dan Blocker who played Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza.
I have watched "Poltergeist" and the sequels dozens of times over the years. They're still some of my favorites!! May all of the cast members from all of the movies who have passed rest in peace; you are truly missed... ❤🌹 Awesome video, Michael and Jessica - thank you!! 🖤💚🧡
Love the lineups and the hard work you put into this video. I love Poltergeist in spite of its cursed history. RIP to all the cast members who passed on and thank you for another sizzler!
My favorite movie growing up. I’m the same age as Carol Anne/Heather O’Rourke and a year after this we had a house fire and needed total remodel. So many weird things around this time for me and the Poltergeist movies. Thank you for tracking all these bits. I love your channel and the level of detail you gather.
The "hero" clown I suppose, the screen used one was in a display at Planet Hollywood in Vegas, Last I saw it was 2009-10 maybe? I immediately recognized it.
In a recent Clownfish TV video about Princess Leia's dress going up for auction, they mentioned that the clown doll from this movie is also up for auction.
The part of the video featuring the death of Heather O'Rourke made me tear up. I have a daughter who just turned 13 and I can't imagine losing her. I feel for her parents, no Mom or Dad should ever have to bury a child.
Incredibly well done, as always! I was born in 1977 and remember Poltergeist being on cable,almost on an endless loop, as a child. Oddly enough, it never scared me. I was always much more afraid of slasher type movies (Halloween/F13th) because they seemed real. Loved the video!! Definitely took me back many years. :)
I was born in 1975 ( same year Heather O' Rourke was born) year of the chinnese rabbit, just like 2023 also rabbit of element water. And yes, its a great movie.
Poltergeist is an 80s classic . It was so well done that it’s still relevant today and it’s just as scary ! Well done, sir. You just gained another sub 😎
I think the Freelings are immortally cemented in the brains & hearts of every 80s kid. One of the rare movies that no matter what color you are, socioeconomic background (etc), that cast & this story just connected on another level. A horror movie with heart. This location isn't that far from where they shot E.T. too, right?
You are so right! As an african american, I grew up very differently from the Freelings but I still connected with them. I remember I was in the check out line waiting for my mom and aunt to check out when I spotted the news of Heather's death on the cover of a tabloid. It destroyed me and as a young child, I didn't know how to process it. I litteraly took to the bed for the rest of the weekend crying my eyes out. Still to this day, Heather O' rouke's death hit me harder than any other celebrity's death. This video took me back to all of that pain and my love for this movie.
Kinda yes and kinda no on the filming locations. Porter Ranch where they shot the bus stop, trick or treating, and much of the bike chase in ET is 12 miles away from the Poltergeist house. Elliott's house from ET is in Tujunga which is 30 miles away.
As a kid in Tennessee at the time, seeing this movie and ET, I thought that's just what California looked like! These types of neighborhoods, massive identical sprawling suburbs.
This is the first real horror movie I saw as a kid. It scared the daylights out of me. Still can't sleep with the closet door open. Now as an adult, it's still one of the best horror movies! Definitely a classic. Thank you for covering this.
In all of these documentaries I’ve watched from Grimmlife which is all of them, I realized I am so glued into this that it’s better than Netflix, I say this with no sarcasm or BS, they 100% should have a Netflix documentary about how they started, filming locations, strange experiences, which we all picked up while watching the videos, oh how I wish that could happen, truly fascinating and his commentary is the BEST! Ty so much for doing this!
Everytime I see one of the Poltergeist films I think of how if Heather was still here maybe she'd do conventions from time to time. She'd definitely be a con favorite that would have appreciated and loved to see her fans from all over.
I love watching these then and now videos, what is most interesting is not the mountain/hill formations, as they hardly change over 40 odd years. But seeing the homes is the biggest thing for me. Thinking that over the 40 years, how much these homes have changed, and the families/memories that have lived in them, some probably still living there after all these years. Many of the children/adults in the opening sequences probably weren't even extras bought in and probably lived on those roads during film as well.
I have visited the cemetery in Westwood and went to see Heather's grave. Very moving and sad that she died so young. Dominique Dunne's passing was tragic as well.
Born in 82, and when I saw this movie, I fell in love with it. The Ontario Airport hotel is down the street from where I work. It's so cool that a part of the movie was filmed there. I never knew that. Keep up the amazing videos, my friend.
Greetings from the uk Michael. Another amazing locations video. The painstaking lengths you go to track down all these amazing locations from classic horror films is incredible. Thank you so much for sharing them with all us horror fans👊.
Hey. A BIG thumbs up from the UK. My mum used to rent videos and I’d sneak down and watch whatever I could, whenever I could. I was 10 when I first watched this in the dark, terrified on my own…and thought it was great! My love of horror movies was born. Had a trip over to San Francisco and had to spend a day north of their at the location of John Carpenters ‘The Fog.’ Great content mate. Keep up the good work 👍🏼
Always ready to go above and beyond for your craft, dude! I hope you stayed in that room. Your production values have risen so much in the years since you started doing this! So good to watch these ever-more-informative vids you share with us. I really enjoy your videos so much! Thanks for another great throwback.
I can't believe they actually aired this terrifying movie, on public television! I was like 7 yrs. old, I couldn't sleep after watching it on the big screen for years afterwards. Gee's, Thank's Mom!
A really sad story to see a child pass on before their time ------ it hurts so.... Thanks, GriMms for taking the time to document this story of a brave little girl... Love, and thanks.... Happy Halloween 🎃
Absolutely love this movie. To this day it still creeps me out. Thank you so much for sharing the locations and the wonderful story on Heather O'Rourke. So sad. As always, Happy Halloween!
One of my favorite movies. You blow me away with the amount of research you had to do to find all these locations. Thank you so much, Michael, for all the hard work and sacrifice that you do to share these experiences with us. You and Jessica are among my favorite You Tuber's. Your dark and haunting videos really brighten up our days. Thanks again.
All the previous research they do on the exact places where scenes of the movie were filmed is incredible. It is impeccable work that few value. I always follow them and I love what they do. Greetings from Argentina
This movie scared the crap out of me as a kid. Actually, even now when I watch it it leaves me feeling weird. It scared me more than the exorcist, especially what you said about those nightmares 😮💨. There was a tree by my bedroom window that I was terrified of because of this movie lol. Great video once again!
I saw Poltergeist in '82. It was one of the most talked about movies for like 2 years after that! It has always remained one of my all-time favorite movies, and oddly, I've always wondered what the motel room looked like. Thanks!
Your videos are awesome.Seeing the filming locations of our favorite films from our childhood brings back so many nostalgic memories.Looking forward to future videos.
Dominique Dunne. I don't know how her Dad, the writer Dominic Dunn, didn't shoot the guy that killed her right in the face. Guy only served 3.5 years for voluntary manslaughter for strangling her.
@@OlinKreutzRules I know we are not talking about other horror movies, but Exorcist hade a curse as well. Linda Blair talked about it numerous times. Alot of the horror movies are cursed.
@@OlinKreutzRules yep. It’s kind of a Hollywood urban legend. More of a “well, people died, and we like to draw parallels” thing, but it adds some mystery to the filming. The “curse” was said it have started with the knowledge that the skeletons in the pool with the mother were real. Or that the set was over native burial ground. Or (other cliche)
I really enjoy these filming location videos. I appreciate the time you spend telling stories as well as the history behind them and the area, and you are a good storyteller.
I remember seeing this movie when I was 10 and what I noticed was it took away the stereotypical haunted house we were all used to and putting in a modern home, a style that many of us as kids, lived in at the time.
I had those same thoughts too when I was 10. But this movie also changed a habit I had of climbing trees. Afterwards, I stopped all together. The clown didn't frighten me, but that tree eating Robbie scared the hell out of me.
My mom was born the same year this movie came out. Its crazy how time passes by, and how nostalgic this movie is. Thanks for going to the locations, it really shows how time goes by fast. May Heather and Dominique rest in peace
This movie reminds me so much of my childhood. My parents moved us to a very similar area in California. New homes with a street dedicated to model homes where you can look at. That fresh smell of a new home being built hits that memory and takes me back to the early 80s!
@@whackamolechamp that's awesome. We had to camp out in the hills next to the model homes. It was a first come first serve type thing. A lot of families brought their bikes. I remember all the deer and animals looking so confused walking around. Kinda sad.
I lost count of how many times I've watched this movie. Every time it came on cable back in the day right after it came out of the theater, and then again on video and dvd. My favorite scary movie!! This was awesome, thank you for going to all of these great spots. Such nostalgia!! I kind of want to live there. I love how wide the streets are, not like it is now. Rest in peace Heather.
One of the best horror films in my opinion, makes a normal family life changed forever. I still say the end of the film would have been ended better if the TV turned on just before the end credits. A shame of all the tragedy after, a excellent video as always.
New to your channel, and I'm digging it. I'm a true crime fan, love serial killer docs, horror films. Anything dark really. Glad to see I'm not that strange in my fascination. :)
It's sad what happened to several of the people who acted in these movies. I love all of these houses in this movie and the one that's in the ET movie too.
Poltergeist is a classic, is my one of my favorite 80s horror movies, My mom remembers watching these movies when she was a teenager growing up in the 80s, and Heather O’Rourke was such a great actress.
Absolutely love your uploads especially the location videos. Find it strangely haunting seeing locations from my favourite movies and how they have changed or remained similar throughout the years. Sometimes wish i could go back to a more innocent time.
Gee, you would think the hotel would like to get some free publicity via your channel . Advertising is not cheap . Well done Michael . RIP Heather, a beautiful little girl , taken from us way too soon .
Very cool Michael. Good job lining up those shots. I'm of a similar age to you and Poltergiest scared the hell out of me when I was younger lol. Great movie! Really tragic what happened to Heather O'Rourke, she was a great little actress and a really sweet girl.
This and the underated sequal are some of the scariest films I have ever seen, great work covering them, I feel like a bit of my soul is connected to these films they go so far back to my childhood
This one hits hard. Poltergeist is one of my fave horrors. Heather was such a very talented young actress and the fact she passed at such a young age is just so upsetting. She had a great future in front of her.
Such a beautiful video, you can feel the love for this movie that was a big part of the childhood of a whole generation. The nostalgia hit so hard with that transition at 15:19 and i don't know why i felt like almost tearing up a bit getting into room 209 lol. What an awesome video about a movie that 40 years after its release i'm sure it will continue to capture the imagination of audiences 40 years from now. RIP Heather O'Rourke 🙏🌹
I must have wore the VHS tape out watching this over and over again. Just such perfectly selected cast and Heather was just so adorable. Creepy clowns, a tree with face and the cupboard/wardrobe (portal). Every child's nightmare. That is before we learn that the house has been built on top of the cemetery. One of my favorite horrors definitely. Not a bad trilogy at all. Thank you for investigating this place both.
They filmed at the same time as ET in the same neighbourhood, the cast and crews would hang out together. Heather O'Rourke tried out for the role of Gertie that went to Drew Barrymore, they were really close friends during filming.
@@sherisse10 Yes, same neighbourhood, within a couple blocks of each other, there are interviews with the casts and pictures of them hanging out on sets together.
@@drefrazier4266 YT isn't going to let me post that sort of thing here. Heather died with an impacted colon, I'll say no more. Have you never wondered why so many child actors lead troubled, tragic lives? You'd never have seen my children anywhere near Hollywood, regardless of how talented they were!
Thank you Michael for spending your own money to show us this hotel room. I was 17 when that movie came out and loved all of them. Such tragic event though with the passing of Heather and Dominique. R.I.P. sweet girls.
@@heatheroester6817 Hello, Heather ! Since Sally hasn't answered you yet, I will try to answer your question. I'm from Germany and as a longtime movie buff since nearly 5O years and avid lover of Hollywood blockbuster cinema I can tell you: No, we haven't ! This kind of movies, the horror genre in general, is pretty much neglected in the German movie production. Perhaps they think such movies are too trivial for them or they shy away from the big expenses for good and convincing special effects, which are an inevitable necessity for a good horror flick blockbuster. And surely they fear the comparison with the always technically perfect products from Hollywood of this genre.😉 The only movie that came close to a Hollywood horror flick was the German thriller "Anatomie" with Franka Potente. It was the biggest German movie hit in the year 2000. And if my memory serves it right, it also got an American made remake ! One of the very view times that such a thing happened to a German movie, to get a Hollywood remake. But the bulk of movies, which are annually produced in Germany during the last twenty years, are either social comedies ( mostly pretty silly ones imho ) and dramas or period movies like the recent new movie version of Erich Maria Remarque's famous novel "Im Westen Nichts Neues" ( "All Quiet On the Western Front"), which had recieved nine academy-award nominations and managed to win four at the recent acadamy award ceremony. This was the biggest success for a German co-produced movie since the six nominations in 1982 for Wolgang Petersen's ( r.i.p.) "Das Boot"( sadly winning none ). In order to find a real horror movie from Germany with a totally phantastic storyline you have to go back over 100 years in time to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's "Nosferatu - Eine Sinfonie des Grauens" ("Nosferatu - A Symphony of Terror" ) , which was the very first movie adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula"in movie history, albeit it had token a very free licence in it. So, it seems the Germans leave making these kind of blockbuster movies (horror, thriller and science fiction ) to Hollywood, because they know ,Hollywood is perfect and unsurpassable in producing such movies ! And by my rough estimation the annually proportion of US-produced movies in German movie-theaters is at least 70% ! And that is the case since the fifties of the last century, when the German public was absolutely eager to see American movies again, which were banned by the Nazis in 1937. Thus movies like Disney's"Snowwhite and the Seven Dwarfs" or "Gone With the Wind" had their German premiere over 15 years after their premiere in the USA, think about that ! And this preferation of American movies over the homeland-made movies by the German audience has remained the same ever since. Btw., if you didn't know this beforehand, in Germany most if not all American movies are dubbed into German ! And most German actors find more work in dubbing foreign movies than in acting in German movies. Because as said the number of foreign movies to get dubbed is much higher than the number of German movies produced in Germany.
Love this film! I saw it very young with my family. My brothers came home and quickly threw away their toy 🤡 RIP beautiful Heather 💜💔🌹 great job as always, Happy Halloween 🧡
Great job! For future filming location videos. You should try to do split screen so we can see the old and new at the exact same time. I rarely see anyone do that. That would be a neat idea. Keep up the good work.
That was AWESOME! Great video Michael. I was 14 when the movie came out and yes it scared the 💩 out of me! I really appreciate the effort you put into your videos like traveling to filming locations, just an amazing job. Growing up as a kid going to the movies was a wonderful way to escape reality for a little while.
Heather's death always upset and disturbed me because her death was because they diagnosed her wrong. If they would have been right, she could have been saved with a simple operation. She died a horrible death.
I read Heather had an emergency operation after her passing out from an erupted bowel infection and came through with flying colors but she did die afterwards. RIP Heather
@@peggystewart2661 Indeed. Septic shock is no joke. My cousin died the same way. Once the bowel has dissected, it's very hard to contain the infection. Human waste gets in the blood stream and there isn't much that can be done. Such a sad ending to a beautiful little girl. Glad her parents sued the shit out of her doctors.
@@peggystewart2661 yeah but they did the surgery she needed when it was TOO LATE sadly. If they would have found the abnormality earlier on, she could have had the surgery a lot earlier and would have been okay! It seems like after she drank that water from the well, that's when all the problems started. I know they say her death was the result of the abnormality. But I feel like maybe it was from the water that she drank. Maybe it had a bacteria in it that caused all the stomach problems. Whatever the exact cause of the intestinal stenosis and septic shock, I wish the incompetent doctors would have diagnosed her RIGHT. She would still be here today and be close to 50 years old. Rest in peace beautiful Heather. 😢❤
Thank you so much for this! Poltergeist is/was a huge part of my childhood. I watched it when I was maybe 11-12 and it scared the bejeezus out of me... But then would go on to become one of my all-time favorites. It still holds up to this day. Too bad you couldn't arrange to get a look inside the Freeling house. THAT would be trippy. To see the room where it all started, all those key scenes.
My husband and I went to school with Heather. She was very kind hearted, and very sweet to all of us. The day she passed hit us all like a ton of bricks. We all miss her.
Really? Wow
Wow that's amazing! I know Chauncey, who played Squints in The Sandlot. He's super friendly.
Im so sorry I can’t imagine what her parents and her family went through
I was born in '73 and I remember the young actresses when she also played a character in "Happy Days" . Plus, I remember when homes were being built to mirror each other....the 1980s were a great decade for movies, music, and there locations. How things have changed.
I love this movie. My husband's family has a huge tie to this movie. The Atlas truck in the moving scene was my father in laws truck. We have pictures of my husband as a child running around on the set and his dad with the crew. It's such a wonderful memory for him to watch this movie. His father is gone now and I know he treasures these movies and the memories. Thank you for covering this movie and Heather's life along with it. She was definately a great little actress for the short amount of time she had on this planet. Cheers🥂💜❤🌈🍭🦄🌸
Very Cool!
What a great story 🙌🥰
Oh wow, would love to see the photos, sorry to sound nosey but love this kind of thing, thank you for sharing your story xx
Is it Atlas moving or Plumbing???
Did you grow up in Simi Valley? I'm from Chicago and remember seeing Poltergeist as a kid and wondering where it was filmed. With the mountains it looked like Mars to me. I went to Simi Valley when I was in California and went to the house. I remember wondering where everyone who lived there worked? You can't get a home there for under a couple million. Lol
The narrator's, voice is fantastic _ I miss old movie trailers like this one.
Being an eighties kid , I grew up with this movie , and whenever I see it - and the sequel - it transports me right back to those days of the mid eighties . My friend and I could rent any horror film we wanted from the local video store and we were only nine or ten. And we rented a ton of them. Those were the days ! And getting into room 209 , that's dedication to the cause !
/#ww2
Same here in The Netherlands. You could rent a VHS tape of Poltergeist or even The Exorcist as a 10 yr old and nobody would ask any questions.
My nosey ass neighbours know every time i use my garage door opener after 9pm. I can't imagine having a noisy poltergeist without law enforcement being involved
Dude, I'm Brazilian. Nowadays I live in Rio de Janeiro, but I was born and raised in a small town in the North of Brazil called Belém. All these iconic films are part of my childhood, and I have a lot of these curiosities: where they were filmed, what the locations are like nowadays, etc. That's why I've been crazy since I found your channel.
I want to congratulate your work and thank you very much. Thank you and congratulations here from Brazil!
One of my favourite films since being a child I know every single line it's so hard to believe it's nearly 41 years old poor Heather and Dominque rest in peace beautiful girls 💖💖💔🙏
FUN FACT: All the interior shots were filmed on a sound stage in Hollywood - EXCEPT for the kitchen scenes. I found someone that was trick or treating back then in the 80’s and was invited into the house. He could see the kitchen was identical but the rest of the house looked a little different. It’s my absolute favorite horror film of ALL time. I’ve seen it well over 100 times since 82.
If I hit the lottery, I’d build that house identical to the one from the movie (I found the upstairs and downstairs floor plans!)
That's so cool--you and me both! I've always wondered what the real house looked like on the inside, but could unfortunately never find any photos online, not even on Zillow. If I had the money and the opportunity presented itself, I'd buy that house and live in it in a heartbeat. There is something both eerie and nostalgic about that movie that is inextricably linked to my childhood. It left a huge impression on me and I've been obsessed with it ever since.
This film scared the life out of me as a child but still remains one of my favourite horror movies decades later. Thank you for an amazing trip down memory lane and seeing some of the films iconic locations 😁🙏
Same here!
It was that damn clown that got me still to this day 👍🏻
Great job ..
That n the tree lol n Skelton jumping out of the closet
@@andrewjohnwilliams6951 great movies..great time to be alive
If I remember right it was Dirk Blocker who was the man on the bike in the beginning of the movie carrying the beer. His father was Dan Blocker who played Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza.
I have watched "Poltergeist" and the sequels dozens of times over the years. They're still some of my favorites!! May all of the cast members from all of the movies who have passed rest in peace; you are truly missed... ❤🌹 Awesome video, Michael and Jessica - thank you!! 🖤💚🧡
I dont often watch clips longer than 3-4 minutes.. Watched this entire video. Gave it a like. Great Job!!
Love the lineups and the hard work you put into this video. I love Poltergeist in spite of its cursed history. RIP to all the cast members who passed on and thank you for another sizzler!
This is a very well done video Grimmlife. Love the tribute to Heather as well. RIP Heather and Dominique.
Where is baby gewl❤
Love this movie. Rest In Peace Heather O’Rourke and Dominique Dunne 🕊️ this movie is wild 😝
“They’re Here”
My favorite movie growing up. I’m the same age as Carol Anne/Heather O’Rourke and a year after this we had a house fire and needed total remodel. So many weird things around this time for me and the Poltergeist movies.
Thank you for tracking all these bits. I love your channel and the level of detail you gather.
My fear of clowns started with this movie! Great memories 🤘🏼
I used to cover my eyes when that frigging clown was on screen lol
Mine too.
Hey wtf 🤔
The "hero" clown I suppose, the screen used one was in a display at Planet Hollywood in Vegas, Last I saw it was 2009-10 maybe? I immediately recognized it.
In a recent Clownfish TV video about Princess Leia's dress going up for auction, they mentioned that the clown doll from this movie is also up for auction.
The part of the video featuring the death of Heather O'Rourke made me tear up. I have a daughter who just turned 13 and I can't imagine losing her. I feel for her parents, no Mom or Dad should ever have to bury a child.
So sad that Heather had her whole life in front of her yet she never got to see it,thank you guys 👍
Incredibly well done, as always! I was born in 1977 and remember Poltergeist being on cable,almost on an endless loop, as a child. Oddly enough, it never scared me. I was always much more afraid of slasher type movies (Halloween/F13th) because they seemed real. Loved the video!! Definitely took me back many years. :)
I was born in 1975 ( same year Heather O' Rourke was born) year of the chinnese rabbit, just like 2023 also rabbit of element water. And yes, its a great movie.
Poltergeist is an 80s classic . It was so well done that it’s still relevant today and it’s just as scary ! Well done, sir. You just gained another sub 😎
Great job! Have always loved this movie since I was a kid, hard to believe 41 yrs have passed already!
Tempus certainly does fugit!
I think the Freelings are immortally cemented in the brains & hearts of every 80s kid. One of the rare movies that no matter what color you are, socioeconomic background (etc), that cast & this story just connected on another level. A horror movie with heart. This location isn't that far from where they shot E.T. too, right?
No ET was actually shot up at a house in foothill… poltergeist house is in simi/Moore park area
VERY insightfully said, you are SO very correct…you nailed this iconic, perfectly terrifying movie…well, perfectly lol 👏🏻👏🏻👻👻
You are so right! As an african american, I grew up very differently from the Freelings but I still connected with them. I remember I was in the check out line waiting for my mom and aunt to check out when I spotted the news of Heather's death on the cover of a tabloid. It destroyed me and as a young child, I didn't know how to process it. I litteraly took to the bed for the rest of the weekend crying my eyes out. Still to this day, Heather O' rouke's death hit me harder than any other celebrity's death. This video took me back to all of that pain and my love for this movie.
Kinda yes and kinda no on the filming locations. Porter Ranch where they shot the bus stop, trick or treating, and much of the bike chase in ET is 12 miles away from the Poltergeist house. Elliott's house from ET is in Tujunga which is 30 miles away.
As a kid in Tennessee at the time, seeing this movie and ET, I thought that's just what California looked like! These types of neighborhoods, massive identical sprawling suburbs.
This is the first real horror movie I saw as a kid. It scared the daylights out of me. Still can't sleep with the closet door open. Now as an adult, it's still one of the best horror movies! Definitely a classic. Thank you for covering this.
Me too with this movie and the closet door
In all of these documentaries I’ve watched from Grimmlife which is all of them, I realized I am so glued into this that it’s better than Netflix, I say this with no sarcasm or BS, they 100% should have a Netflix documentary about how they started, filming locations, strange experiences, which we all picked up while watching the videos, oh how I wish that could happen, truly fascinating and his commentary is the BEST! Ty so much for doing this!
Everytime I see one of the Poltergeist films I think of how if Heather was still here maybe she'd do conventions from time to time. She'd definitely be a con favorite that would have appreciated and loved to see her fans from all over.
I love watching these then and now videos, what is most interesting is not the mountain/hill formations, as they hardly change over 40 odd years. But seeing the homes is the biggest thing for me.
Thinking that over the 40 years, how much these homes have changed, and the families/memories that have lived in them, some probably still living there after all these years. Many of the children/adults in the opening sequences probably weren't even extras bought in and probably lived on those roads during film as well.
This has made me want to watch the film again….love how you show where everything once was on this video and all your other location ones…🖤
I have visited the cemetery in Westwood and went to see Heather's grave. Very moving and sad that she died so young. Dominique Dunne's passing was tragic as well.
Well done Michael...I've been waiting for this tribute video! Rest in peace to this beautiful little angel.
Born in 82, and when I saw this movie, I fell in love with it. The Ontario Airport hotel is down the street from where I work. It's so cool that a part of the movie was filmed there. I never knew that. Keep up the amazing videos, my friend.
Greetings from the uk Michael. Another amazing locations video. The painstaking lengths you go to track down all these amazing locations from classic horror films is incredible. Thank you so much for sharing them with all us horror fans👊.
Hey. A BIG thumbs up from the UK. My mum used to rent videos and I’d sneak down and watch whatever I could, whenever I could. I was 10 when I first watched this in the dark, terrified on my own…and thought it was great! My love of horror movies was born. Had a trip over to San Francisco and had to spend a day north of their at the location of John Carpenters ‘The Fog.’ Great content mate. Keep up the good work 👍🏼
Tragically sad about Dominique also.
Always ready to go above and beyond for your craft, dude! I hope you stayed in that room. Your production values have risen so much in the years since you started doing this! So good to watch these ever-more-informative vids you share with us. I really enjoy your videos so much! Thanks for another great throwback.
Poltergeist was my favorite movie, I watched it every time it was shown on TV :'3
Thanks for the video and Happy Halloween! 🎃
I can't believe they actually aired this terrifying movie, on public television! I was like 7 yrs. old, I couldn't sleep after watching it on the big screen for years afterwards. Gee's, Thank's Mom!
A really sad story to see a child pass on before their time ------ it hurts so.... Thanks, GriMms for taking the time to document this story of a brave little girl... Love, and thanks.... Happy Halloween 🎃
Superb. Renting that room was just a top move. Really brilliant seeing the houses built on the hillsides now. Thanks for lining all those shots up.
If you can remember when t.v. ended for the night followed by the national anthem. Then the static screen that followed......Congrats, we are old now.
That must have absolutely blown your mind being in the same rented room , fantastic 🇬🇧
Absolutely love this movie. To this day it still creeps me out. Thank you so much for sharing the locations and the wonderful story on Heather O'Rourke. So sad. As always, Happy Halloween!
One of my favorite movies. You blow me away with the amount of research you had to do to find all these locations. Thank you so much, Michael, for all the hard work and sacrifice that you do to share these experiences with us. You and Jessica are among my favorite You Tuber's. Your dark and haunting videos really brighten up our days. Thanks again.
All the previous research they do on the exact places where scenes of the movie were filmed is incredible. It is impeccable work that few value. I always follow them and I love what they do. Greetings from Argentina
One of my favorite movies of all time. One of the best movies ever made. Never get enough of this one. Great job poncho 😛
Lived in Simi Valley for years. Took my kids trick-or-treating to the poltergeist house. Your shot alignments on the money.
She had a short and happy life, just imagine what films she would of been in if she didn't pass away 🙏 RIP
This was fascinating to watch and the tribute to Heather in the beginning almost had me in tears.
This movie scared the crap out of me as a kid. Actually, even now when I watch it it leaves me feeling weird. It scared me more than the exorcist, especially what you said about those nightmares 😮💨. There was a tree by my bedroom window that I was terrified of because of this movie lol. Great video once again!
Aren't you gonna let me in? God is in his holy temple 😂😂
I saw Poltergeist in '82. It was one of the most talked about movies for like 2 years after that! It has always remained one of my all-time favorite movies, and oddly, I've always wondered what the motel room looked like. Thanks!
hard to believe it was more than 40 years ago
that was great work n i enjoyed lining it up with you here ( live pretty close to simi )
Right? The theater I saw this in is no longer around.
@@samanthab1923 a drive-in in simi perhaps?
@@martinedwards4522 Close, a drive-in theater in Edison NJ 😆
@@samanthab1923 close?..😂
Your videos are awesome.Seeing the filming locations of our favorite films from our childhood brings back so many nostalgic memories.Looking forward to future videos.
It scary and on how the older sister in this film was murdered by her boyfriend around the same time in real life.
Dominique Dunne. I don't know how her Dad, the writer Dominic Dunn, didn't shoot the guy that killed her right in the face. Guy only served 3.5 years for voluntary manslaughter for strangling her.
That and Julian Beck and Will Sampson dying soon after the 2nd were part of the “curse” of the film.
@@trexxy9628 Curse 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@OlinKreutzRules I know we are not talking about other horror movies, but Exorcist hade a curse as well. Linda Blair talked about it numerous times. Alot of the horror movies are cursed.
@@OlinKreutzRules yep. It’s kind of a Hollywood urban legend. More of a “well, people died, and we like to draw parallels” thing, but it adds some mystery to the filming. The “curse” was said it have started with the knowledge that the skeletons in the pool with the mother were real. Or that the set was over native burial ground. Or (other cliche)
JAW DROPPING. Thank you for taking the time to do this!
I really enjoy these filming location videos. I appreciate the time you spend telling stories as well as the history behind them and the area, and you are a good storyteller.
I remember seeing this movie when I was 10 and what I noticed was it took away the stereotypical haunted house we were all used to and putting in a modern home, a style that many of us as kids, lived in at the time.
I had those same thoughts too when I was 10. But this movie also changed a habit I had of climbing trees. Afterwards, I stopped all together. The clown didn't frighten me, but that tree eating Robbie scared the hell out of me.
I remember having nightmares after watching this movie!
My mom was born the same year this movie came out. Its crazy how time passes by, and how nostalgic this movie is. Thanks for going to the locations, it really shows how time goes by fast. May Heather and Dominique rest in peace
Your mum was born in 1982…. She mustve had you very young
@@hollybabyyy she was 19
@@To_The_Moon96 woah
This movie reminds me so much of my childhood. My parents moved us to a very similar area in California. New homes with a street dedicated to model homes where you can look at. That fresh smell of a new home being built hits that memory and takes me back to the early 80s!
I was lucky enough to have the same experience. I had a Suzuki dirt bike and spent my afternoons after school exploring the hills.
@@whackamolechamp that's awesome. We had to camp out in the hills next to the model homes. It was a first come first serve type thing. A lot of families brought their bikes. I remember all the deer and animals looking so confused walking around. Kinda sad.
@@whackamolechamphat's so cool... I was born in 83 but I'm fascinated what it was like to live in that era like that. Seems like simple fun times
I lost count of how many times I've watched this movie. Every time it came on cable back in the day right after it came out of the theater, and then again on video and dvd. My favorite scary movie!! This was awesome, thank you for going to all of these great spots. Such nostalgia!! I kind of want to live there. I love how wide the streets are, not like it is now. Rest in peace Heather.
One of the best horror films in my opinion, makes a normal family life changed forever. I still say the end of the film would have been ended better if the TV turned on just before the end credits. A shame of all the tragedy after, a excellent video as always.
Heather was also on Happy Days in 82-83, Webster in 83 and in 85 a film called Surviving a family in crisis.
This is so cool. Thank you so much for what you do with going to these filming locations. I am surprised you do not set up tour groups.
New to your channel, and I'm digging it. I'm a true crime fan, love serial killer docs, horror films. Anything dark really. Glad to see I'm not that strange in my fascination. :)
It's sad what happened to several of the people who acted in these movies. I love all of these houses in this movie and the one that's in the ET movie too.
very interesting! thanks for showing us non-Americans too lol. that hotel room sure looks like it hans't changed much since the 80's 😄
The background music is awesome 👍🏻 it really sets the tone of the video.
Great video!! Thank you for doing this for all of us 😊
I am introducing my 17 y/o to all these classics! Love this one ❤ this is the 80s all over again!
Another awesome vid from the Grimm life this is a true masterpiece of a film which still scares to this day thanks for sharing guy's.
Thank you for this ! Poltergeist is my all time favorite movie . I first saw it when I was 6 in 1986 ! I am obsessed with the movie,
Such a classic movie franchise, dang I really like 80s horror movie's.
Poltergeist is a classic, is my one of my favorite 80s horror movies, My mom remembers watching these movies when she was a teenager growing up in the 80s, and Heather O’Rourke was such a great actress.
I heard that this movie was cursed. I don't believe in such of things, but you never know????
Also The Exorcist The Omen & a few others are said to be cursed.
Absolutely love your uploads especially the location videos. Find it strangely haunting seeing locations from my favourite movies and how they have changed or remained similar throughout the years. Sometimes wish i could go back to a more innocent time.
Gee, you would think the hotel would like to get some free publicity via your channel . Advertising is not cheap . Well done Michael . RIP Heather, a beautiful little girl , taken from us way too soon .
Man this brings back lots of memories Now I just have to re-watch it.. awesome work
Very cool Michael. Good job lining up those shots. I'm of a similar age to you and Poltergiest scared the hell out of me when I was younger lol. Great movie! Really tragic what happened to Heather O'Rourke, she was a great little actress and a really sweet girl.
This and the underated sequal are some of the scariest films I have ever seen, great work covering them, I feel like a bit of my soul is connected to these films they go so far back to my childhood
Crazy to realize Heather O'Rourke lived only a few min away from me!
Such a great film. So sad about the tragedy the cast went through. Thanks for showing us everything! Terrific video!✌️
Heather attended my middle school. Her death shook our small town. Definitely gone too soon by something totally preventable.
Great video!! No one lines up shots like you do!! Another great movie from my childhood, thank you!!😊
This one hits hard. Poltergeist is one of my fave horrors. Heather was such a very talented young actress and the fact she passed at such a young age is just so upsetting. She had a great future in front of her.
Love this channel so much. True filmmakers/fans know how special this stuff is. ❤
Such a beautiful video, you can feel the love for this movie that was a big part of the childhood of a whole generation. The nostalgia hit so hard with that transition at 15:19 and i don't know why i felt like almost tearing up a bit getting into room 209 lol. What an awesome video about a movie that 40 years after its release i'm sure it will continue to capture the imagination of audiences 40 years from now. RIP Heather O'Rourke 🙏🌹
I was 20 years old in 1982 and I was blown away by this movie. I ended going back and watching it with a big group of people. We had a blast!
Love the video💯👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 📹❤️thank you for sharing 😊keep up the good GrimmlifeCollecttive work stay safe 👍🏽🙏🏽😀
Thanks for another awesome Grimm life collective episode one of the most scariest movies ever made love it to this day👻👻🔥🔥
I must have wore the VHS tape out watching this over and over again. Just such perfectly selected cast and Heather was just so adorable. Creepy clowns, a tree with face and the cupboard/wardrobe (portal). Every child's nightmare. That is before we learn that the house has been built on top of the cemetery. One of my favorite horrors definitely. Not a bad trilogy at all.
Thank you for investigating this place both.
They filmed at the same time as ET in the same neighbourhood, the cast and crews would hang out together. Heather O'Rourke tried out for the role of Gertie that went to Drew Barrymore, they were really close friends during filming.
Nope, not filmed in the same location… poltergeist was filmed in Simi Valley and augora hills.. ET house in foothill/Tujunga area
@@sherisse10 Yes, same neighbourhood, within a couple blocks of each other, there are interviews with the casts and pictures of them hanging out on sets together.
Wonder if they shared stories of the horrific things done to them both! Inexcusable!
@@mehallica666such as?
@@drefrazier4266 YT isn't going to let me post that sort of thing here. Heather died with an impacted colon, I'll say no more.
Have you never wondered why so many child actors lead troubled, tragic lives? You'd never have seen my children anywhere near Hollywood, regardless of how talented they were!
Cool can’t wait to watch this episode thanks Grimmlifecollective! 👏🏻❤️
You always seem to capture the old 80’s stuff but your not old like me 😂 I’m so appreciative of you guys ❤️
Thank you Michael for spending your own money to show us this hotel room. I was 17 when that movie came out and loved all of them. Such tragic event though with the passing of Heather and Dominique. R.I.P. sweet girls.
This was an awesome blast from the past !! Thank you, I loved it...!!! 💀🎃
One of my absolute favorite movies, I loved seeing all the locations. I wanted more! lol
One of my all time favorite movies. Thanks for taking us there, Michael.
Greetings from Berlin, Germany and Happy Halloween! :)
Hello,I was just wondering if yous have horror movies like we do in the states here?
@@heatheroester6817
Hello, Heather !
Since Sally hasn't answered you yet, I will try to answer your question.
I'm from Germany and as a longtime movie buff since nearly 5O years and avid lover of Hollywood blockbuster cinema I can tell you:
No, we haven't !
This kind of movies, the horror genre in general, is pretty much neglected in the German movie production.
Perhaps they think such movies are too trivial for them or they shy away from the big expenses for good and convincing special effects, which are an inevitable necessity for a good horror flick blockbuster.
And surely they fear the comparison with the always technically perfect products from Hollywood of this genre.😉
The only movie that came close to a Hollywood horror flick was the German thriller "Anatomie" with Franka Potente.
It was the biggest German movie hit in the year 2000.
And if my memory serves it right, it also got an American made remake !
One of the very view times that such a thing happened to a German movie, to get a Hollywood remake.
But the bulk of movies, which are annually produced in Germany during the last twenty years, are either social comedies ( mostly pretty silly ones imho ) and dramas
or period movies like the recent new movie version of Erich Maria Remarque's famous novel
"Im Westen Nichts Neues"
( "All Quiet On the Western Front"), which had recieved nine academy-award nominations and managed to win four at the recent acadamy award ceremony.
This was the biggest success for a German co-produced movie since the six nominations in 1982 for Wolgang Petersen's ( r.i.p.)
"Das Boot"( sadly winning none ).
In order to find a real horror movie from Germany with a totally phantastic storyline you have to go back over 100 years in time to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's
"Nosferatu - Eine Sinfonie des Grauens"
("Nosferatu - A Symphony of Terror" ) ,
which was the very first movie adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula"in movie history, albeit it had token a very free licence in it.
So, it seems the Germans leave making these kind of blockbuster movies (horror, thriller and science fiction ) to Hollywood, because they know ,Hollywood is perfect and unsurpassable in producing such movies !
And by my rough estimation the annually proportion of US-produced movies in German movie-theaters is at least 70% !
And that is the case since the fifties of the last century, when the German public was absolutely eager to see American movies again, which were banned by the Nazis in 1937.
Thus movies like Disney's"Snowwhite and the Seven Dwarfs" or "Gone With the Wind" had their German premiere over 15 years after their premiere in the USA, think about that !
And this preferation of American movies over the homeland-made movies by the German audience has remained the same ever since.
Btw., if you didn't know this beforehand, in Germany most if not all American movies are dubbed into German !
And most German actors find more work in dubbing foreign movies than in acting in German movies.
Because as said the number of foreign movies to get dubbed is much higher than the number of German movies produced in Germany.
Love all your vids, but my favourite one's are these, when you line up the past with the now.
Love this film! I saw it very young with my family. My brothers came home and quickly threw away their toy 🤡 RIP beautiful Heather 💜💔🌹 great job as always, Happy Halloween 🧡
Another great video! Liked seeing what the houses/landscape look like now. The cul de sac then and now was cool.
Great job! For future filming location videos. You should try to do split screen so we can see the old and new at the exact same time. I rarely see anyone do that. That would be a neat idea. Keep up the good work.
That was AWESOME! Great video Michael. I was 14 when the movie came out and yes it scared the 💩 out of me! I really appreciate the effort you put into your videos like traveling to filming locations, just an amazing job. Growing up as a kid going to the movies was a wonderful way to escape reality for a little while.
Heather's death always upset and disturbed me because her death was because they diagnosed her wrong. If they would have been right, she could have been saved with a simple operation. She died a horrible death.
I read Heather had an emergency operation after her passing out from an erupted bowel infection and came through with flying colors but she did die afterwards. RIP Heather
@@peggystewart2661 Indeed. Septic shock is no joke. My cousin died the same way. Once the bowel has dissected, it's very hard to contain the infection. Human waste gets in the blood stream and there isn't much that can be done. Such a sad ending to a beautiful little girl. Glad her parents sued the shit out of her doctors.
@@peggystewart2661 yeah but they did the surgery she needed when it was TOO LATE sadly. If they would have found the abnormality earlier on, she could have had the surgery a lot earlier and would have been okay! It seems like after she drank that water from the well, that's when all the problems started. I know they say her death was the result of the abnormality. But I feel like maybe it was from the water that she drank. Maybe it had a bacteria in it that caused all the stomach problems. Whatever the exact cause of the intestinal stenosis and septic shock, I wish the incompetent doctors would have diagnosed her RIGHT. She would still be here today and be close to 50 years old. Rest in peace beautiful Heather. 😢❤
God has her home. 🙏 ❤️.
All I know is something is still fishy about her death. 💔
I heard someone sexually was abusing her and did that to her. 😢 😫 🤒
I heard the sane thing.
Thank you so much for this!
Poltergeist is/was a huge part of my childhood. I watched it when I was maybe 11-12 and it scared the bejeezus out of me... But then would go on to become one of my all-time favorites. It still holds up to this day.
Too bad you couldn't arrange to get a look inside the Freeling house. THAT would be trippy. To see the room where it all started, all those key scenes.