POLTERGEIST (1982) | First Time Watching | MOVIE REACTION | THEY'RE HERE!!!
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- They're Here! We jump into a Spooky Franchise with Poltergeist (1982). Here's The Mrs' reaction to her first time watching. Happy 40th Anniversary to the Franchise!
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Poor poor Heather O’ Rouke, and Dominique Dunne. May they Rest In Peace.
io non ho pauro....rest in peace all children...
Both buried in the same cemetery too and both tragic deaths also sadly.
What a sad legacy this film has, nothing to do with the film of course but nevertheless what a sad legacy.
You forgot about Julian Beck (the preacher) and Will Sampson (the Indian) from part 2. Beck died from cancer while Sampson died during heart surgery. Less mysterious as Heather, but still tragic.
@@wampa25 At least he wasn't murdered. He got to live life.
The family dynamic is really what makes this film. The acting by JoBeth Williams is phenomenal. Her turmoil to save her children at the end gets me every time.
Craig and Jo Beth make such a convincing couple. You can really believe that they would be together.
her face at 31:26. I can't think of any moment in a movie where an actor conveyed sheer, mind-shattering terror so convincingly.
One of my favorite scenes was edited out of this video. When she is trying to escape with the kids, Steven runs to the front door and it opens with her standing there holding Carol Ann and has Robbie by the hand and then the casket pops up, blocking her way to exit, and she yells "Steven Help Us!" And then the door closes. That's some intense stuff. The emotion in that scene is phenomenal.
I would just leave children behind.
Without good characters, the scares fall flat because we don't really care what happens to the people, which is why this film is so good. Thankfully directors like Mike Flanagan are going back to that approach for horror.
80s Poltergeist without a doubt has the best family❤. The way the family actors interact while brief is very believable. The parents seem to really care about their kids. The kids behave like kids, no clichés. Gotta love the legendary Steven Spielberg. 🎬
Her words
she doesn't understand she doesn't get it it's a Clown this is hard to explain 🤡 enough said
To think that Craig T Nelson went from starring in this to later being Mr. Incredible.
According to Steven Spielberg, Heather and her family where having lunch at the MGM commissary, awaiting a commercial audition for her sister, when Spielberg approached them and asked Heather to scream. She was hired on the spot
I remember that story. Pretty cool.
Spielberg was just a producer on the film though.
I grew up in the eightys, and believe me when this movie came out, it was scary, and all the scenes made you believe something like this could happen. People are so jaded nowadays, but in the day this movie was a film masterpiece, and to me it still is. JoBeth Williams is an amazing actress, I always get emotional when she displays love for her daughter. Poltergeist, and the exorcist are at the top of my list for movies of this type, they are iconic, and unforgettable. I'll take this kind of storytelling, and acting, over anything put out today.
This movie isn't scary in any way shape or form
@@mastixencounter Things were different in the eightys!
@@mastixencounter "Scary" is subjective. The fact that it didn't scare you doesn't mean it wasn't scary for plenty of other people. It would be like me picking out your favorite comedy and telling you it's not funny at all, as if there's some objective standard for that.
It's not 'jaded' to not find this realistic anymore. It just means we evolved.
Evolved into people with no imagination, or sense of wonder about the supernatural, how depressing!
I saw this in the theater with my family when I was 12, and none of us expected how intense it was. I love that last scene of him pushing the t.v. out of the room. :D
I was actually 6 when I saw this in the theater and your right it was intense.
I was 19 and loved it. Couldn't wait for a sequel.
Omg seeing this in theaters would be intense in general, but at 12 🤯😳😳😄
I love saying “this house is clean” every time I finish vacuuming- but much like the movie, it’s never all that clean 😅
Ima start saying that 😂
"To her, he simply is another child. To us, he is the Beast" Gives me chills every time! One of the best monologues in movie history IMO. Thank goodness for the small medium at large!
Zelda could read the phonebook and make it an Oscar worthy performance.
I saw this in the theater. When she says, "He lies to her. Tells her things only a child would understand," my buddy leaned over and said, "Like what, 'mimsly wog bratimbly fungle'?"
I lost the next minute of dialogue because I was laughing too hard.
Small, medium, large 😂
Despite the brutality of the crime committed against her, Dominique Dunne’s killer, John Thomas Sweeney, got only six years in prison. What’s more, Sweeney was hired as a head chef at an upscale restaurant in Santa Monica, California. And when her family campaigned for justice and founded a victim’s advocacy group, Sweeney himself claimed he was being “harassed” by the grieving family.
The scene w the chairs has always been my fav because of how they did it.
Per IMDB: The shot of the chairs that position themselves in the amazing balancing act on the table was all done in one take. As the camera panned along with JoBeth Williams, who was getting some cleaning materials, several crew members quickly set an already organized pyramid of chairs on the table, then took the single chairs away before the camera scrolled back. The table is off-screen only seven seconds.
So simple but so effective!
Reminds me of a Formula 1 pit-stop. 😂
I always laugh when we get that reminder that not so long ago we only had like 15-20 channels and they still didn't have enough programming to run past 3am. If you were watching tv and the national anthem came on (Oh Canada for us) it meant you were up waaay past your bedtime.
Living in the U.K, they did the same thing with the national anthem. Seems so quaint now. The BBC 1 stopped doing that around the time that Princess Diana died, as it went straight to BBC News 24 (which was a new channel at that point) after regular programming for more information about her death.
Every time I see this movie, I think of Dominique Dunne (the actress who played the older sister Dana) and I cry. She seemed like such a lovely person, and she had the whole world ahead of her. 😔
"E.T." and "Poltergeist" share a common backstory.
Spielberg thought about doing a follow-up to "Close Encounters", called "Night Skies" about a family in a farmhouse being terrorized by aliens; allegedly based on a true story.
He took the story in two different directions - one being "E.T." about the friendly alien.
The other being "Poltergeist", about the family being under siege; except with ghosts instead of aliens.
Spielberg decided he wanted to direct "E.T.", so he handed "Poltergeist" to Tobe Hooper, although Spielberg was on set during certain sequences.
That's why we ended up with two movies by Spielberg that year.
This movie showed what combining the visions of two vastly different directors (Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper) would look like. It had the emotional heart of Spielberg, but had the chilling undercurrent/horror elemtn lurking within the pretty sheen of Suburbia that was nicely provided by Hooper.
I appreciate this post as it gives credit to both Tobe & Spielberg instead of just crediting Spielberg!
There's still controversy as it obviously looks like it has a lot of similar shots that Spielberg often does in his movies. Either Spielberg was a very hands on producer or he already storyboarded the scenes as to how each should look and Hooper was just a director for hire that was just there to fulfill Spielberg's vision. By the way, not many know this movie took inspiration from a Twilight Zone episode called Little Girl Lost which has a similar plot of a girl lost in another dimension that must be saved.
Quite simply, one of the greatest supernatural horror movies ever made. The cast are brilliant, JoBeth Williams should have had a nod for some kind of award, she's terrific. The sound design is extraordinary - never gets old. Could be biased somewhat because I was young when I first saw it, but I can watch this today repeatedly and have a great time with it... man that sound design. Usually I hate this term, but I can throw it out there for this one - they don't make them like this any more.
That's just the nostalgia talking
@@mastixencounter What is? The acting IS really great and it's a fantastic film. A few of the effects are somewhat shaky (there's really no excuse for that tornado effect being so fake-looking when Wizard of Oz had done it better fifty years before,) but most modern horror films really aren't like this.
@@mastixencounter No. It really isn't. For me at least. Perhaps there's the rub. There's been nothing like it since. Many have tried, but failed to be so entertaining as this one was. If you can think of any I'd be glad to hear it.
There was even that remake which completely lacked any charm or genuine scares - even with Sam Rockwell in your cast, I mean how is that possible? Just goes to prove my point, if they can't remake it and add anything interesting at all.
Pretty sure ace Ventura does the “this house is clean” but in the first movie.
This came out well before Ace.
Great video!
All the jump scares that got you, got most of us too.
"This house is clean" was in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
I hope yall watch the sequel soon.
Oh, and Jaws came out on June 20, so yall should think about doing that one also.
This was my first scary movie. I snuck to see this with my older cousins and it scared me to death. I had a stuffed clown that I had in my bed as I slept and I kept trying to hide it in the closet after this and my mom kept putting it back in my bed lol. I thought it was alive since so eventually I put it in the bottom of a goodwill bag and eventually had to come clean that I snuck to see a scary movie after my melt down. lol
Fun “maybe” fact: The skeletons they used in the swimming pool scene were real skeletons. It’s been said by someone on the crew that they were ordered from a medical supply company because there was no place to get fakes from at the time the movie was made.
Yes, these bodies were those of people who left their bodies for scientific study and research when they died. Actress JoBeth Williams wasn't told they were real until after they finished filming for obvious reasons otherwise she wouldn't have agreed to get that up close and personal especially in the muddy pool water.
Also the Director is in the pool with Jo Beth because she was so scared that one of the overhead lights would fall and either crush or electrocute her.
The Director joined her because he told her no backstage person would let the Director die.
Some believe that the so called curse is due to the film makers using real skeletons
@@anthonyscully2998 There were also apparent paranormal things actually going on behind the scenes plus they made the point in the movie itself about building the community over the graves of these people only moving the headstones which clearly people believe this is not to be done and yet they used the skeletons as objects of horror instead of the way the people intended their bodies be used for which was for scientific research not as a movie prop.
It's not that there were no fakes out there.
Constructing fakes cost considerably more than buying the skeletons from a medical supply house.
Most of the skeletons used for medical displays came from India because they had perfect teeth because of their diet.
Other films with real skeletons are
Apocalypse Now (the supplier was arrested for actual grave robbing)
Dawn of the Dead (1979)
Unrest
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Black Mamba
Frankenstein (1931)
The farther you go back the more likely they used a real skeleton.
The infamous face-pulling scene gave SO many of us 80's kids horrible nightmares. I love this movie ❤️
The clown jump scare, one of the scariest/creepiest moments ever and it still gets me everytime.
I couldn’t look at clown for years man….my son can’t either!!!!
It's also one of the best built-up jumpscares in horror history. Throughout the film, we're suspecting it to do something. It lowers your security when it finally strikes!
The girl that plays the older daughter is Dominique Dunne. On October 30, 1982, Dunne was strangled by her ex-boyfriend, John Thomas Sweeney, during an argument on the driveway of her West Hollywood home and fell into a coma, dying five days later on November 4, 1982, she was 22 years old. In a court case which gained significant media coverage, Sweeney was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Dunne's death, and only served three and a half years in prison on a 6 year sentence. A year after her daughter's death, Dominique's mother, Ellen "Lenny" Dunne, founded Justice for Homicide Victims, a victim's rights advocacy group.
Love this movie. And yes it is PG. I think i saw it when I was like 6 in the 80’s. JoBeth Williams is one of the great horror movie moms fighting for her kids. Always sad that both the daughters in this film did not live much longer after the release.
JoBeth Williams was only 11 years older than Dominique Dunne ,
Dominique Dunne (older sister) died Nov 1982 and Heather O'Rourke (younger sister) , died 1988 , they are buried in the same cemetery in Los Angeles.
They say there's somewhat a curse on this movie because not only were deaths but other things happened . The little girl died & the older sister was murdered by her bf. The older sister here is the actual real sister of one of guys from " American Werewolf In London ". Billy from the movie " Predator " & " 48 Hours ". Did you notice the hickey that the older sister had when she came back ? She also said that she was at the motel before . Looks like she went back that night for the hickey .
Also, fun fact, this film was produced by MGM, with the lion roaring as their logo. They recorded a tiger roaring for the creature that roars at Beth, and it sounded so much better than the roar they had previously that MGM have used it ever since at the beginning of all subsequent films.
This movie is 40 years old and it is still holds up til this day and it ranked at #80 in the 100 scariest movie moments on Bravo, cool reaction as always Mr. & Mrs Movies, you both take care and have a great weekend
definitely doesn't hold up. It's nostalgia that holds it up just like every other thing that gets older
One of the few times I’ve been grateful for terrible, terrible parents. They took me to see this in theaters when I was like FOUR. Scared me to death, and gave me a life-long love of horror films.
If the movie is PG - Parental Guidance, why are they terrible parents? They're your parents, and they guided you to the theatre and watched it with you. If you wanna blame someone, blame the ratings board.
For me it was a combination of this film and the first Friday the 13th film at age 5. Scared me half to death but I was forever a fan of horror flicks afterwards for some odd reason. I used to always go to the Horror section at the local mom and pop video store back in the 80's and then Blockbuster in the early 90's and check out the kick ass box art on the VHS copies of the movies there. Good times.
@@LastRenegade Yo, Captain Mansplainer… they were terrible parents for many reasons: don’t need you to explain my life to me. And if it will keep you from getting your Well Akshually merit badge, tell your scoutmaster they also took me to see Aliens and Best Little Whorehouse In Texas.
Still one of my favourite films. Zelda Rubenstein was a Legend!
For years film fans theorized that Spielberg ghost-directed(ha!) this movie and were pretty much proven correct by various interviews with cast and crew over the years. Spielberg was assigned exclusively to direct E.T. at another studio at the time and there was a writer's strike looming. He wanted to get another movie directed and apparently from anecdotal evidence he was at the very least the, functionally speaking, uncredited co-director on this.
The only people that ever said that was Zelda Rubinstein and a cameraman. That is a very unfair rumor that Spielberg himself has refuted on numerous occasions.
Would Duel be considered a horror (TV) movie directed by Spielberg?
Ugh. This movie for me as a kid. Scared me big time. Craig T Nelson is OG.
Classic. Can't wait for the reaction to pt 2. I find it holds up pretty well, and the new characters add a bit more substance to the phenomenon beyond "he is the beast".
2 is good. I still find 3 to be weak AF but watchable to an extent.
Did you notice the detail of the mother-daughter interaction. They both have the same phrasing and mannerisms. This is most evident in the stacking chairs scene.
Mrs Movies can’t wrap her head around a paranormal alternate dimension but that’s practically the whole structure that Stranger Things bases it’s concept on (along with 80’s nostalgia)
Great film and superb performance from Heather O'Rourke as the little girl Carol Anne. She also starred in Poltergeist 2 and 3, even though she was getting very ill during the filming of the 3rd film. Sadly, Heather died just 6 months after filming finished, aged just 12.
She had a 2 cardiac events, one immediately after surgery while she was in the recovery room, but the official cause of death was listed as congenital stenosis of the intestine complicated by septic shock. It's believed she got sick by drinking bad well water.
This movie never scared me but I always felt so bad for the family and was captivated by their love and drama, they truly felt like a real family to the point where I cried while they mourned Carol Anne being missing lol
@urwrong the actors do a great job of creating that bond i think because the film shoot was notorious for a lot of spooky events that took place this may have made them bond more as an ensemble RIP to Heather O' Rourke who played Carol Anne .
This movie never scared me as I was watching it, but once I went to bed and started nodding off in a pitch black room, my mind went back to the movie and I was suddenly scared as hell.
yeah, I got that same real family vibe til the parents started doing pot.
@@Hiraghm lol you must be really young
@@harveylee51 also RIP Dominique Dunn who played the eldest daughter
Ace Ventura used the "This house is clean" when he was in Proctors apartment.
Factoid: Poltergeist means "noisy ghost" in German.
The only thing that really scared me was the old cult leader guy, especially in the third movie, so so creepy!
Also, holy shit the nostalgia that your MonsterVision shirt just brought to me. I used to watch that soooooo much with Dad when I was younger. That TNT logo is just seared into my brain because of it, so is that MonsterVision logo and font. I actually still have an 8 hour VHS tape that we made from one of the Godzilla marathons that they did all the time.
Thanks for that trip down memory lane
There are a lot of messed up stories involving this movie as well as the sequels unfortunately. The one that gets me is when JoBeth Williams is in the pool and apparently those were real skeletons that pop out of the water around her.
I love this one. One of my favorite Spielberg productions… and rumor has it, he secretly directed a lot of this movie himself, which officially he couldn‘t do because of contractual obligations.
Eddie Murphy had a bit about this - he had a kid that was "taken" - the cops asked "Did you do anything?" - Eddie said "We tried to change the channel but that didn't work so we just left"
Please watch part 2 & 3 so she can understand more of why the family is haunted and why that specific house. Plus the little lady medium is in the other two films also
They are. Next Friday is Part 2 and then the 17th is Part 3.
Wy watch them
The classic one tells you enough Wy they want Carol Ann.
Part 2 is oké But Poltergeist 3 is not that good
@@EdjeMr1975 they are still fun to watch and part 2 explains all about what happened to the settlers under their house and the clairvoyant abilities in their family. People who are sensitive are always magnets to spirits.
I'm not fond of the sequels but this one I rewatch every few years. Good story, legit scares and the whole family survives. That's nice. And I think Steven and Diane are super relatable and I find it scarier as I get older.
Fun Fact: This was filmed just down the street from the house Spielberg was filming E.T.
Spielberg would finish his dailies for E.T. then go down the road and help the Director view the dailies for this movie.
One of my favorite movies!! Also, Jim Carrey in Ace Centura Pet Detective says "this house is clean" when he solves the murder of the man who "jumped" off his balcony....the scene with the sliding door. 🙂
Both my wife and I remember watching this when we were kids, and of coarse thru the years on HBO ect. We both watched it again a few weeks ago.... no matter how many times we have seen it, even knowing that its coming and when it is, the clown jump scare gets us every time. DAMMIT!!! LOL
it's the music & sound effect when the clown hand touches him that makes it work every time
@@TonyTheLoneRiderSmith FACTS!! And the set up for it.
Man...I miss the eighties! Some of the best scary movies!
Best quote from Mom: "Take your sweet-ass time, Craig." :)
"She's a medium?" "Nope, she's a small." missed opportunity.
Total classic - aside from the horror aspect, I love how the family/family dynamic is written.
This was the 1st horror movie I watched and what ignited my interest in the genre.
Also really satisfying after doing the house work, to look smug and declare - 'this house is clean'
Part 2 is alot more scary and disturbing part 3 kinda was eh. But the sad thing the older daughter was murdered by her stalker ex bf and the youngest daughter died from a health issue . & yes i can remember when all the tv's went off after 2 am i was born in 76 and how much the world has changed for sure
Interesting story: Spielberg had the intention of making a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He began work on a story, but due contract obligations, he couldn't direct a second movie while he was working on E.T. Tobe Hooper was called in to direct the sequel, but he didn't like the alien aspect of the story and chose instead to alter it into a ghost story. Hence, Poltergeist was born.
This freaked me out when i was the girl's age, of the tv's white noise and static because it used to do that often in the 80s. Back then we used things that is real and made it scary. :\
Saw at the theater with my wife we both really enjoyed it , pretty scary fun we thought, thanks again!
I worked in a theatre that was haunted and there was a mirror by the backstage slop sink (which was used for cleaning paint brushes during set builds) and I always feared looking in the mirror and either catching a ghost's reflection standing behind me or I would see myself pulling my face apart like that guy with the chicken leg. God's honest truth.
"This house is clean" is also in ace ventura 😂 when he stands opening and closing the glass door while yelling lol
The skeletons in the swimming pool were real! The movie is said to be cursed and most of the actors have died:
Heather O'Rourke, Carol Anne, passed away in 1988 from Chrons Disease.
Will Sampson, whom played Tyler in Poltergeist 2 died due to complications from openheart surgery in 1987.
Dominique Dunne whom played the older sister, was murdered by her ex boyfriend in September 1982.
Dominique's brother, Griffin, was one of the hitchhikers at the beginning of AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, the hiker who got bitten.
@@fergalhughes165 wait that was her brother
Incorrect as Heather died from an intestinal stenosis as it was originally said to be chrons disease
I love Poltergeist. The concept and tone was creative and unique as it was just constructed perfectly. The story, performance's, music, images, astomphere, tension, and cinematography was so supenseful, frightening, haunting, mysterious, thrilling, intense, eerie, creepy, and spooky. 😰😱 It was decent. To this day I still watch it and I consider it a classic. It never gets old. 😍💯😎👍
The music is barely mentioned. It's incredible in the way that so many of Jerry Goldsmith's scores were. Still are! Nothing equals them to this day.
"How's the tree going to eat him?"
One limb at a time!
No, no, please, don't get up. I'll show myself out after that one................................. :D
This movie has an energy behind it I can’t explain. The scene where she passes thru her on the stairs makes me cry uncontrollably
I saw this movie when I was way too young to have seen something like this. Pretty scary then, but as I got older started to appreciate certain elements of the film. A very Spielberg type film, even though he didn't direct or write the film, just was a producer with a lot of input. It has the typical 80s neighborhood, and you can see certain similarities between this and ET, which also came out the same year. This is one of the many films from 1982 that are extremely well done. I'm the same age of this film too, which feels sort of weird.
@ My Name isn't important There are a number of accounts which say that Spielberg actually ghost directed many scenes to the point where one P.A [production assistant ] stated this was half Tobe Hooper and half Spielberg ...
fun fact . the scene where the paranormal investigator , the one who ends up ripping his face off , those were Spielbergs hands off camera Spielberg himself has confirmed this ...yes still a chilling classic . Keep 80's horror movies alive BE SAFE .
@@harveylee51 Spielberg helping out and giving ideas was pretty common in the 80s. The story for Gremlins was aided by Spielberg, who suggested they keep Gizmo in his Mogwai form, and helped turn the screenplay from it's original strictly horror beginnings into the film it was when released. Originally Gremlins was going to be a very violent horror film, with the dog being eaten by the Gremlins and them killing Billy's mom, it also lacked the levity and charm it eventually was given.
a few facts:
1. the skeletons were real but they never told Jobeth Williams till after filming
2. the actress that played Dana was murdered by her boyfriend before the movie was released
3. it is said that Spielberg was the real director and used Tobe Hooper as a proxy because he wanted to direct the movie but contractually he was already committed to directing ET
4. Jim Carrey paradied the 'This house is clear' line in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
You missed out a major fact about the actress who played Carol Ann, she passed away shortly before the film was released.
@@christopherangeli1141 Carol Anne died before the release of Poltergeist 3. She was in 3 poltergeist films.
@@Lugen101 .. A thousand apologies to those who may have been mislead (sic) by my original, erroneous factoid. Lugen, I have been humbled...
I think descrecration of corpses is illegal.
Poltergeist is German for noisy ghost.
I remember watching this on summer break at my grandma's house on HBO. My aunt and the guy she was dating had two daughters. It was morning. We were so focused on the dark movie, that after the movie my aunt sent use outside. We were amazed it was light out, like we forgot it was daytme. Or had left a darkened theater during the day.
I saw this on the bog screen, and it was scary on the big screen! My girlfriend at the time squeezed my arm so hard when that monstrous ghost popped up in the hallway, it hurts whenever I remember it. Like now!
The Poltergeist movies always get me! Mainly because there was so much real death of actors in it.
Same with the Exorcist
Glad you guys reacted to this movie, one of my favorites. Iconic movie. You guys are always awesome!♥️😎👍
This movie was meant to be directed by Stephen Spieldberg but because he was doing ET at the time he let his friend direct it instead. They were actually nominaited in the same catagory in that year and ET won haha. The part with the mother falling into the pool of bodies was in fact real skeletons because they were cheaper than plastic ones and her reaction to them is real because the film makers never warned her they were going to do that. The actress of the Medium that helps them was in real life one as well so it seems which is an interesting fact to me really.
Poltergeist (1982) is one of my all time favorite movies. I love the quote “They’re heeeeeeeere.” The sound effects of everything going on in this movie is another reason why I love it. The blonde haired girl is my favorite character. The only thing I hate about this movie is that clown doll. That’s a “Nope.” for me. Way too creepy.
"They're heeerr!" Great movie.
👻👻👻
Of course this film was spoofed by "The Simpsons" in one of their Halloween specials.
I recommend watching JoBeth Williams in the classic 1983 film "The Big Chill". It has a great soundtrack and excellent cast including Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline and more.
Yay! My favorite movie! First watched when I was 3 and was absolutely terrified of the clown doll and the giant slimey closet monster trying to suck them in at the end. This film is where my love of horror movies started and I'm so glad to call it my favorite film of all time! I'm so jealous of everybody why got to witness the release of this phenomenal film in theaters!
Back story, when I was in the Army I used to go to the theater on post all the time. Before the movie started they always played the National Anthem and everyone would stand at attention. When I saw Poltergeist off post ( I was home on leave) of course the National Anthem starts to play and I stand at attention. Once I realized what was going on I sheepishly sank back down into my seat. 😁
I've always enjoyed this classic. And the house Universal did a few years ago for Halloween Horror Nights was absolutely one of the best they've ever done!
It was a fantastic house with great effects
One of my ALL TIME favorite movies. It terrified me as a kid 👍
Hi, thanks for the upload. I liked how the two " Moms " were united on the solutions to save the children.
😂The way you jumped at 3032 when the clown grabbed the kid from behind was hilarious 😂😂🤣🤣🤣. I had to rewatch it like 4 or 5 times 😂 I can’t believe your husband missed it 😂
I remember seeing this with my family when it came out, I was about 16. I have always loved scary movies & I really liked it, still do.
I was so excited to see you guys react to Poltergeist. This is my favorite movie
The same guy that directed this made the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He also made a killer version of Stephen King's Salem's Lot and an absolutely batshit crazy movie about Vampires from space called Lifeforce.
Mrs Movies: "Too far out to be scary."
Jumps at hand coming out of TV! lol
Love how Mr movies is so knowledgeable about each movie true movie lover! Blessings and happy thoughts guys! 😇🙏🎥🎊🎉🎶
Our daughter was 11 when this came out and was pretty scared about it for a time. Our families are in Oklahoma in Indian Country, so there are lots of both true stories and legends. But she insisted on seeing both #2 and wanted to see #3. But when Heather O'Rourke, the actor who played the little girl Carol Anne, died then she lost all interest and didn't want to see it or any of the previous ones again. After all these years she still won't watch any of them as she really liked Heather.
I remember this great horror flick from my childhood, and it was scary. Ghostbusters appeared two years later. Good story of the paranormal. Yes! That was Billy from Predator, good eye! Craig's boss was in Return Of The Living Dead (1985).
The intro was much creepier when you were a kid who had stayed up late, hoping for monster movies but only found static and test patterns. I was 17 when this in theater, and only now am I willing to admit to how much it freaked me out.
Nominated for 3 Oscars:
Best Visual Effects
Best Sound Editing
Best Original Score.
Not even remotely true. Rope is cheap.
I love this movie. It scared the begeebus out of me when I was little.
The skeletons that emerged from the pool and ground at the end were real. It was cheaper to use than creating models. This contributed to the legend of the "Poltergeist Movies Curse".
The house that got sucked into the netherworld was a very expensive model ($13,000?). They only made one. It had a powerful vacuum tube and various cables rigged to it's insides to collapse key structures. It was filmed with a very high-speed camera. When they turned it on to film it, the model did it's thing in an instant with a very loud crunch. Someone on the other side of the ILM studio heard it and shouted, "What the f_ck was that?!" Fortunately, the shot worked perfectly the first time and they did not have to build another model.
When the film first came out there was a line in an early scene that got cut for the video and cable runs. The family is trying to decide what to have for dinner and one suggests Pizza Hut and another family member (can't remember who) replies "Pizza Hut sucks!". Guess they got pissed and had the filmmakers remove that line. But I remember it!
I ran the old 1950's movie projectors at the walk-in theater when this movie came out. It was a old building and one evening while showing it we had a bad storm and the Bats that lived in the eves behind the screen came flying out over the audience during the swimming pool scene. I had showed it for a week or two and I just stood up in the vacant upper balcony grinning as the screams of the customers echoed two or three counties over! If they came to see this movie to be scared, I think they got their money's worth!!! Priceless
Great reaction! 👍🏿 Poltergeist is one of my favorite horror films of all time.
Here's a little nugget of true info that is seldom mentioned. The props department did not have the necessary budget to make fake skeletons for the last scenes of the movie, so in order to save money they used REAL HUMAN BODIES in the pool scene and the house scenes. Bruce Kasson, Assistant Prop Master, is quoted... “They came from Carolina Biological,” Kasson said, naming a medical and science supply company that sold human skeletons mainly for use in medical schools back in the 1980s. “Replica skeletons did not exist, as far as I remember, at that time.” “They’re now common and relatively cheap. And the rush to the bottom line for cost will dictate.”
Now, think about getting into a pool with corpses for four ot five days of filming. But that was NIFTY.
This review should've been released tomorrow on Poltergeist 40th anniversary arachnophobia should've been today. Coincidentally I've always said arachnophobia was the Poltergeist of creature features...
Fun fact, the weird ghost minster near the end of the movie that attacks the mom is roaring like a lion, and it's the same lion sound as the MGM logo, who I believe holds the rights to this series. Also, there are 4 films and a TV show. Three originals, plus a remake.
The fact that they used real human skeletons in this still boggles my mind.
I heard it's cheaper to buy real human skeletons then fakes ones ?, weird
@@pazuzu-gb7ok at the time. props and special effects models have advanced so much in the 40 years since this was made that they could do it now without using real remains
Without telling the cast either. And as much as I love this movie and like Spielberg and all… that’s not cool. That’s downright almost a human rights violation, in my opinion.
the special effects didn't seem so cheesy 40 years ago, when they were new
When I first saw that MASSIVE Skeleton Ghost I was "Hells yeah! Now this movie is a real ride".
"This house is clean..." is uttered by Roger, the sociopathic but beloved alien living with the Smith family in "American Dad" Season 9, Episode 2. That episode is titled "Poltergasm." Funny as hell to watch as it riffed on the whole movie through the episode.
This movie hits a lot different as a parent than it does when I was a much younger horror fan.
Please also watch Poltergeist 2
People always think that she's stuck in the TV 😂😂😂😂 she's not! The TV is just a conduit which they can hear her through, the same way that ppl take EVP devices to ghost hunt so that they can hear the ghost but that doesn't mean that the ghost is in the EVP device lol 😂😂😂😂 ❤❤❤ XxXxX
In the UK Poltergeist got an X certificate (over 18s only). There was an AA (Adult Accompanied - 14 and over unless with an adult) available at the time, but I've been told that the British Board of Film Censors (as it was then) was worried that irresponsible teenagers would drag their younger siblings along and traumatise them. Even now it still has a 15 certificate in the UK.
She's going to be so annoyed at how long it takes for them to finally leave.