They’re Here!
November 09, 2008
By: 
rollerkaty
Category: 1982, Horror, Poltergeist, Steven Spielberg
Halloween has come and gone. I’m sure that you have been waiting on the edge of your virtual seat for the answer to last week’s conundrum: what movie to watch on Halloween? Halloween (the 1978 version) or the original Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)?
My sincerest apologies for making you wait for an entire week (I hope that you will forgive me as I was a little distracted).
So what movie did we end up watching on Halloween night, you ask? Drum roll please… and the winner is… Poltergeist!
“Poltergeist?!” you say. “That wasn’t even one of the options!”
Well, you have a good point there. On Halloween night we were leaning towards watching the original Halloween, but unfortunately I could not find a copy the movie *anywhere*. (Note to self: next year, do not go to the video store looking for horror movies the day before Halloween). I did manage to find a copy of Nightmare on Elm Street after calling *six* local video stores. No kidding. Ironically, we realized that Poltergeist was playing on TV and we ended up watching that on Halloween night because we hadn’t seen it before.
What a fantastic film! Co-produced and co-written by Steven Spielberg, Poltergeist (1982) tells the story of strange phenomena that plague a family in a suburban California home. When five-year-old Carol Anne (played by Heather O’Rourke) begins having conversations with static on the television, things start to get really bizarre. Carol Anne is eventually sucked into another dimension by a malevolent poltergeist and her family turns to a group of parapsychologists to rescue her. With the help of a medium (played with panache by Zelda Rubinstein), Carol Anne is eventually freed and the family flees for their lives.
I think I’ll have to watch the sequels, Poltergeist II and Poltergeist III.
Medium Tangina Barrons, Played by Zelda Rubinstein
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November 9th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
you never watched Poltergeist? whoa! haha. Good choice for Halloween.
November 9th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
I love this movie. I saw it in the theater when it came out and it remember staying up that night to be sure the tv got turned off before I went to sleep. It’s freaky but also has humore. Love the twists and turns of the plot, and the big tree out the window. Great stuff indeed..
Oh, don’t ruin it by watching either of the sequels.
SB
November 9th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I loved this movie when I was a kid. My friend and I had a contest going as to who had watched it the most. I think I stopped counting somewhere around 25.
The funny thing is that growing up I had nightmares about clowns and I never knew why. A few years ago I realized that the fear came from watching that movie. To this day I can’t watch the “clown scene” from Poltergeist without looking away. That clown still freaks me out!