Poltergeist

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Fred Man, this is a GOOD movie. Nowadays I only hope for solidly mediocre. No boring parts. Great character development. Freely, but not too gory, we'll except for one dream sequence where a guy tears his own face off. Very California 1980s growing up - R.C. Cars, T.V. remotes new technology, Televisions going off air at night after the National Anthem, etc Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/13/24 Full Review geminielsy One of the best movies it still gave me the chills. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/13/24 Full Review jessie Classic 🤌🏽 not too spooky 👍🏽 Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/18/22 Full Review Mark H The scariest PG movie ever made. Steven Spielberg was notorious in the early 80s for convincing the MPA to rate his movies PG I’m guessing to boost ticket sales with a wider audience. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was one of the films that inspired the new PG13 in 1984. But how Poltergeist avoided an R rating is still baffling. The horror and gruesome scenes are simply not for kids of any age. This movie scared me to death as a teenager. A haunted tree tries to eat an 8-year-old boy, and later a haunted clown doll tries to strangle him. A swimming pool is full of skeletons. A demon creature appears at the top of the stairs. A man pulls his face apart in front of a mirror. Satan himself appears as a giant demonic face. This is one of the scariest movies ever made, period. The music by Jerry Goldsmith is iconic, the acting is good and the effects were very good for 1982, a bit dated today. The greatest achievement might be the way this movie turned out so well despite Spielberg dividing his time between E.T. and this film. Tobe Hooper was the credited director, but Spielberg was heavily involved in the production and even in directing some scenes. In the end, it’s a pretty polished and Spielberg-esque movie that takes the haunted house genre and plops it into average suburbia. That’s what makes this film so compelling, and unsettling. It’s not an abandoned house some kids wander into. It’s a planned community built on…can you guess? Yep, an ancient Indian burial ground. The first house built is the Freeling home, and they bear the brunt of the spirits ire. A classic haunting/creature feature that few ghost stories can match. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 10/04/25 Full Review Jon G Still a classic horror movie with plenty of thrills. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/22/25 Full Review Cash M A classic horror movie that holds its own as a cult classic which brought on so many tropes for future movies.Truly an astounding movie.7.5/10 Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/12/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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