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Beatrice Straight, Craig T. Nelson, Dominique Dunne, Heather O'Rourke, James Karen
A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the f...( read more
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Classic 'Family' horror movie. Tobe Hooper must have been really suffocated by the bearded one though as its hard to believe he didn't direct it. That said, the creepy still framed shots are Hooper at his best!
Typical Spielberg themes of the broken family in the suburbs. Bitch gets GHOST FUCKED!
Poltergeist has enough of those epic blockbuster Spielberg moments, and enough of Hobe's skilled horror and humour techniques. As a result, Poltergeist is a damn great film. It starts of lighthearted, but there's a creepy sense that the shit is going to hit the fan. So we get som...( read more)
I saw this and have yet to see what the big deal is. It didn't strike me as terribly scary and explores plenty of conventions that were done better in other (sometimes subsequent) movies. I got fed up with the slime effects and the hunt for the little kid. It's not that this is p...( read more)
What a classic spooky movie from the 80's of a family plagued by things moving about in their house but then it gets worse when young Carol-Ann is snatched by an evil entity from her bedroom at night. They discover their house has been built on a graveyard. To retrieve their daug...( read more)
Not a big fan of older movies, but this one might be worth older graphics! haaha
to be honest, this is below my expectation.,
but still, poltergeist is fulfilled with every requirements needed to make a good horror movie..
