POLTERGEIST (1982) MOVIE REACTION!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!! Full Movie Review
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Going back in time for an '80s Horror Classic as Andrew Gordon & Aaron Alexander give their First Time Reaction, Commentary, Breakdown, and Movie Review for the film Directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Salem's Lot) & Co-Written by Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones / Raiders of the Lost Arc, E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Ready Player One) - featuring Heather O'Rourke (Poltergeist II: The Other Side, Poltergeist III), Craig T. Nelson (The Incredibles, Proposal, Blades of Glory), JoBeth Williams (The Big Chill, Kramer vs. Kramer), & Zelda Rubinstein (Southland Tales, The Addams Family), and more!!
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You don't have to call out every damned reference that occurs to you. How about shutting up sometimes and letting the film breathe?
@@ecksearoh6283 Jeez if you don't like it then you don't have to watch it. Just let them have their fun!
I would love it if you guys could watch Clue!!! It's such a fun movie with three different endings so you can enjoy all of them.
Heather O'Rourke passed away February 1 1988 of septic shock and Dominique Dunne was brutally murdered (RIP🙏) by her boyfriend John Thomas Sweeney October 31 1982 from strangulation in her driveway. Very sad.
There is a second movie
Its not a "patriotic intro", its telling the audience (of the 80s) that its after midnight and the TV station was signing off, going to static til 6am. Anyone back then, who grew up in the US would know that "the National Anthem" meant "TV was going to bed". Station Signoffs started ending in the late 80s and early 90s as stations started selling that airtime to Infomercials.
Yes, no television programming from midnight to 6 am. This generation with their multitude of streaming platforms.
"Get off my lawn"!
*especially if there are graves underneath. 😉 😅
My kids laughed at me when I told them tv went off after a certain time😂😂😂😂 They really thought I was joking🙄🤷🏽♀️
It's r patriotic stuff, which makes it patriotic. Simple as that. Ex: You show girly stuff then, that makes it girly. Ppl know the subtext, but obviously, you need everything spelled out
Same in Canada with O Canada.
Yep I know what you mean I remember that when I stayed up on the weekends back in the day. When I was not in school and had Saturday off.
R.I.P. Heather O’Rourke and Dominique Dunne. So tragic and heartbreaking.
Dang. I knew about the little girls' death of natural causes (on the operating table while they were trying to correct it). But, I had no idea the older girl was murdered.
I forgot the older sister was murdered! 😮😢
By a psycho boyfriend. @@Arcannabis
@@MrBoyYankee
Who is free living his life under a changed name.
Will always bother me how that kid passed, just a very bizarre death.
The "she went through my soul!" scene always makes me cry.
Tangina wasn't double crossing them. She was talking to the other spirits, telling THEM to "go into the light". And the dad thought she was talking to Diane and Carol Anne, and he panicked. And she didn't lie to them. She was just wrong.
It's useless to explain anything to them. They're too stupid to understand.
Almost right. She at first said to tell Carol Anne to go toward the light, and say mommy is in the light, and then to stop and not go into the light, so she would stay at the edge of the light until the Diane was lowered into the light, so she could catch Carol Amne. Once Diane was lowered down into the light, Tangina did want Carol Anne to go into the light with the others, so Diane could catch her.
"This house is clean" is a classic saying. A lot of people, especially gen x like me who seen this as kids, still say it to this day. LOL
In my day it was Clear...not clean
I first heard it from Ace Ventura first, then Poltergeist, 😆
@@shawnjohnson2837 we always said "clean", with the accent and all. LOL. This was the first scary movie I saw. I think ET came out the same year. That one traumatized me a tad too, but it was more how sick he looks and all the doctors chasing them. Poltergeist was just down right creepy for a 6 year old. LOL. My parents may have had a lapse in judgement that day. But it's what put the fear of clowns in me, that's for sure. LOL
@@LifeOfNigh You have to include the head bob too 😊
@@LifeOfNigh I saw this as a kid too and was scared. But I would say my parents had great judgement. We all watched all kinds of movies together. It was fund back then. Not everything for kids was just for kids either back then. My parents enjoyed lots of movies, for example The Neverending Story. We all loved it and it was for kids and adults to watch. Like Aliens, it was terrifying. But back then us and our family and friends watched things like this, so.... We were scared, but we had a blast being entertained. I treasure these movies as an adult now too.
Note that the cigar box is the same type of box the parents keep their weed in. Tweety doesn't like that smell...the smell of marijuana, lol.
something i completely missed as a kid. lol
I...actually never pieced that together until just now. Lmfao.
I never really gave it much thought.
I don't like that smell either, not regular marijuana or skunk weed.
Every weed smoking parent I knew in the 80's had that exact same cigar box 😂😂
@@cmock810 I've still got that cigar box. It came with the house when I moved in! Full of random junk though, rather than weed.
I think what really makes this movie is the family dynamic and the great writing. The family feel so real and relatable so you really care about them i feel like a lot of horror movies fail to accomplish this.
It's exactly what the remake was missing 100%.
I agree. It’s also what made the 1st “Child’s Play” so good. You really feel the mom & her son.
So in the 80s, TVs worked on limited frequencies. It's kind of like how universal remotes now can get keyed into your TV even if they didn't come with it. So if you had a TV on the same frequency that was within the range of the remote, it could mess with it . Back then they couldn't even consider a house having multiple TVs to worry about it, but sometimes very crowded urban areas would have issues. Apartments not as much because of how much steel and concrete was between units
I can't tell if this is real 😅
@@laylaabdulmateen-el6741 100%
@@laylaabdulmateen-el6741 It is.
Thanks i didn't feel like explaining it 😂
Exactly right!
Tobe Hooper also directed The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Also both daughters passed away, Dominique Dunne who played Dana was murdered by her boyfriend the same year as this movie came out, when she was 22
Tobe Hooper directed the Salem's Lot miniseries based on Stephen King's novel, and Lifeforce (space vampires).
The OG "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" released in the 70's.
He also directed a 1980's movie called "The Funhouse" and he directed Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and the 1986 version of Invaders from Mars
"This was before clubs, where'd they get the weed?" - Are you serious? We had "clubs", lol. And have you forgotten about hippies???? Acquiring weed and going to clubs has been around for a loooooooong time, guys!
Yeah, they just called them discos back then. Lol.
I think he meant clubs as in dispensaries, not nightclubs. But even still, I also had to raise an eyebrow at that comment.. like, uhh.. you know weed's been around for a while, right? ...Even before dispensaries! 🤣
It’s the same reason after her line about “Pretend you’re younger when you still had an open mind” dude goes “Yea-before you got stoned!” 🙄🙄🙄🤣😂😖😣
I know right. Like weed wasn't available before 2020🤣🤣🤣🤣
Some people went to a club or bar to buy weed, but lots of us went to clubs and bars to find "a guy" for ongoing purchases. All regular tokers knew a guy, or knew a guy who knew a guy.
Tangina's delivery to Carol Ann's parent's about the terrible presence being in there with her is so chilling, it terrified me more than anything else in the film. So effective.
Re: the medium “double crossing them” - she wasn’t, she was speaking to the lost spirits that were confused and distracted from the light by Carol Anne. Remember she told Diane to instruct Carol Anne to go to the light but not go into it. She was using Carol Anne to guide them to the true light so they could pass through. Steven misunderstood who she was talking to and what she was trying to do - help the lost souls travel over and leave the house and family alone.
Early remote controls used ultrasound and not infrared. Grandma had one that I could actually hear a few of the buttons as a kid. The dog would sprint out of the room when a button was pushed.
This movie has so many iconic lines, but my absolute favorite will always be "You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the head stones!"
“I’m going in after her!”
“She won’t come to you, let me go”
“You’ve never done this before”
“Neither have you”
”You’re right, you go” 😂😂
I love it too, our fam loves to shout that quote when someone in the family is arguing, just to break the tension lmao
I loooove how the mama believes her child & doesnt disregard what was said about the TV people
I always forget and love that the movie doesn't end after rescuing Carol-Anne
42:35 - He just said "all three hundred acres" - I think they explain in the movie that the ghosts were attracted to Carol Ann's life force, that's why their house is being affected but not the neighbors.
I've always assumed that either the tree marked the middle of the cemetery, or them building a pool disturbed the bodies.
Fun fact: If you count the number of seconds between a flash of lightning and the sound of the thunder, you can estimate how many miles away the storm is (1 second = 1 mile) and, therefore, whether it is moving closer or further away. It's an ancient technique but still pretty accurate. Fun reaction, guys!
My dad taught me that when I was younger about the storms and counting in between the thunder to see how far or how close it is to you
Yeah I thought this was common knowledge, especially in the United States, but apparently not.
We were told you count like - One Mississippi, two Mississipp, three Mississippi and so on and so on
@@JohnDAmico-ci2hz to help with the timing...
42:52 RIP to one of the great "little ladies" of cinema. A great intro to Tangina Barrons played brilliantly by the great Zelda Rubinstein.
The video camera guy Ryan is Richard Lawson. He’s married to Beyoncé’s mom. His daughter is Bianca Lawson. She was in save the last dance and the vampire diaries.
No, the mom was not possessed after bringing back Carol Anne. The grey hair was just how her body reacted to the trauma and shock from what she had experienced after having traveled to another dimension/plane of existence. She literally saw things that turned her white (as Winston explained in Ghostbusters). This was also depicted in The Sixth Sense. Ghostly, or really any traumatic experience, can have strange effects on your body.
Yep and it also happened in A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 1, to Nancy. We kept up with lore in the 80s movies. I really miss great storylines and details like this.
A friend of the family had a traumatic experience when he was a kid (normal trauma, not supernatural) and he had a patch of white hair ever since. Another guy saw something while exploring an older church (possibly supernatural?) and left. The next time anyone saw him, his whole head of hair was white. He wouldn't discuss what happened and never went back to that church.
Tweety’s cigar box gets disinterred by the workmen digging the pool which foreshadows the big final reveal.
The chair stacking scene is so great. Such a simple way to show that something unexplained is happening. I’ve never looked up how they did it because I love the mystery.
Just learned a few days ago that the props guys used actual human skeletons in the pool sequence, and never let Jobeth Williams know.
Its the same as some High School science classes. Most are made with real bones but not like its skeletons the guys went and dug up lol.
Real skeletons were cheaper than prop skeletons.
@@justindaniel3273 bro ours were all plastic wtf kinda school you went to 😭😭
@@StevieMcKenna10We have a couple of real skeletons in storage at the high school where I work. Not sure how long they've had them, but it's an older school.
@@StevieMcKenna10 highly doubt they use real ones now…this was 30 to 40 years ago. Thought this was pretty common knowledge lol. Google it
Did y’all catch Dana when her Mom told her the hotel they were staying at? She’s like oh yeah I remember that place and Mom is like umm what?
There were a lot of little things like that in this movie.
“So, what are you gonna do about your gray?” Nice job changing the subject 😂
What's it mean!?
It means that Dana has been there to the hotel before. Wink wink
The eldest daughter Dana is not Diane's biological daughter
There are obvious iconic moments in this film, from quotes to scares, but for me bar none the most haunting moment is the little brother being so frightened he can't move or even form words correctly. His panicked half formed shouts of "momma!" hit me deep. That's true blue childhood nightmare reaction right there.
Yes - a brilliantly acted moment!
"They're here....".
Iconic movie line.
Spielberg was suppose to direct this. But he was filming "E.T. the Extraterrestrial". Gave directing gig to Tobe Hooper. 2nd unit director on Spielberg's previous films.
Hooper actually conceived the concept of the film. He only agreed to help develop the story (which he did) if this would be his project as director. (Also, Hooper never worked with Spielberg before this.)
I thought they were talking about "this house is clean"
@@Sallytheflounder Partly true as it was always Tobe's film to direct
Great reactions! This screenplay does such an ingenious yet simple thing: it answers the age-old question of “if they know the house is haunted, why don’t they leave?” By kidnapping the adorable innocent child right when the ghosts turn threatening, it ensures that the audience is onboard with the family staying even after things go berserk.
My favorite thing I noticed on the rewatch is that the big plan to tether the mom was Robbie's idea.
You mentioned Nightmare On Elm Street……if you remember, part of Nancy’s hair turned gray towards the end. I think it’s supposed to be caused from fright.
It comes from a trope that interaction with ghosts or the spirit world (and I’ve seen the extreme fright thing) does that to you. Cole from the sixth sense also has a white streak of his hair, too.
@@Ivy94F He did! I don’t remember that. But it’s been a while since I’ve seen that movie.
@@cflournoy1529 Yup! Lol. And if you watch it again, you notice that donnie wahlberg’s character (the first ‘cole’) has that same white patch of hair, too.
Same thing happens to Ash in Evil Dead 2 lol.
I love the investigator describing this childs toy moving over seven hours as a major triumph, then they the open the door to the kids room for the investigators and just walk away.
I don't get how anyone can honestly dismiss the climax of this film as studio interference and to egregiously compare it to Madame Web. Seriously, Aaron? It had to end that way. Not only was it awesome, but it made sense. Do you really think it would've been so easy for Diane to pull Carol Ann out of that portal and then have everything be okay given the evil that's in that house? Come on, man. I hope you guys watch the sequels because they go further into into this stuff.
Gotta love the practical house implosion sequence.
have you seen the corridor crew episode where they explain how they made it with a miniature that costs 25k!!! it was pulled through a vacuum!
1982 was insanely packed with classic films:
E.T., Poltergeist, Blade Runner, Tron, The Thing, Conan the Barbarian, The Road Warrior, Rocky 3, Star Trek 2, Tootsie, First Blood, The Secret of N.I.M.H., Porky's, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Friday the 13th P.3, The Dark Crystal, An Officer and a Gentleman.
The oldest daughter was like 16 or 17. The guy cat calling was Billy in Predator and also in 48 Hours with Nolte and Eddie Murphy
Which means the mom got pregnant when she was 14 years old and had her when she was 15.. Was always such a weird thing to include in the movie as it added nothing to the story. Obviously some writers fetish.
@@Corvid76Right, especially the construction worker part and the non reaction from the mother. Def a fantasy/fetish of a writer or maybe even the director
@@Corvid76 not necessarily a fe*tish (who knows when yt will dislike some words). Teen pregnancies were pretty common, still are more than they should be. I went to school with a girl who got pregnant when she was 13 or 14....in 1989.
@lavinder11 No. That was common in 1982.
@@Corvid76Dana is not Diane's biological daughter. She's Steven's daughter from a previous marriage.
In the movie, when telling the parapsychologists about his family, Steve specifically says, "My daughter, Dana, ..." and not "Our daughter, Dana.
Getting the daughter back is a false victory. It ends the second act. When the clown starts in, it is the beginning of the climax. Most scripts have a false defeat or false victory before the climax. Star Wars: they rescue princess Leia but lose obi-wan, and escape the death star. But they still have to destroy the death star in the space battle.
What do you mean by "the actual" ending? This was a haunting movie, not just a kidnapping movie. Carol Anne's abduction was only half the story. Tangina's proclamation was simply incorrect, not gospel. Why would they abandon all their possessions before moving out? People don't just run away to a hotel if they want to move. They need at least some of their belongings.
Could you stop calling the last part studio interference? It wasn't. They were packing up when the 2nd attack happened but they didn't do it fast enough. The spirits were desperate to have Carol Anne and destroy anything in their way. That's where we get the "actual" ending, the explanation behind the haunting itself, which is what this movie was about if you didn't realize.
It wasn't called "The Abduction of Carol Anne", it was called "Poltergeist".
They obviously didn't know..
What's with the attitude?
@@thalia9789 It was a ridiculous take that warrants an attitude.
@@thalia9789 Morons of their caliber deserve attitude. Get a clue.
Back then the Cheetos mascot was still a mouse most known for his "Cheesy Rider" commercial. Chester Cheetah didn't appear until 1986.
The medium thought they *were* gone and I think all of them except the evil entity passed on but it hid somehow. Something happened when Steve tried to pull Diane back into the room and the monster skeleton head came out.
That Superbowl 88 poster has become part of the "curse" mythology surrounding the movies. Superbowl 88 happened on Jan 31, 1988. Heather O'Rourke (Carol Ann) passed away the next day at the age of 12.
Heather O'Rourke died at the age of 12 years old, she passed away suddenly. She died in surgery when doctors were attempting to repair an acute bowel obstruction, caused by what was believed to be a long battle with Crohn's disease. If you watch the 3rd Poltergeist movie you can see she did not look healthy as she was very plumped up in the face. When she passed away it perpetuated the believed curse surrounding the Poltergeist movies. The girl who played the oldest daughter Dominique Dunne was murdered by her boyfriend in 1983 just after the release of the movie. Julian Beck and Will Sampson who were both in the sequel passed away. Julian in 1985 and Will in 1987 which continued to make people believe there was a curse surrounding these movies. Many said it had to do with the fact that they used actual corpses in the swimming pool scene in this movie.
Steve Freeling to the insurance agent: "No, not a fire. No, not an earthquake, either. You see, it's...uhm...our house was sucked into another dimension by these pissed off spirits...what do you mean that's not covered? I've got full comprehensive insurance on that house."
Truth be told, isn’t that what we’re told happens at the beginning of Poltergeist II? It’s why they’re staying at the grandma’s house, iirc. 😂
If there are any bodies still there at the house site. I would think builder incompetence would all them to recoup the cost of the house.
Omg, I misread that last line. I honestly thought you said "got full *compression* insurance on that house". I read it that way an thought "well, they're not wrong"
The story that the medium tells is that there are 2 seperate entities in the spirit plane. The ghosts were not bad, they were supposed to move on into the light, but were distracted by Carolann's life force. They were drawn to her so she had to lead them to their real "light". That's what the medium did. But there was also the "beast", the rage I think of the desecration of the graveyard. That was not purged, so it attacked even more violently at the end. The movie doesn't explain everything, so you have to put the details together yourself, and there can be many interpretations. Love how you appreciated the 80's effects!
They added some depth to that explanation in the second film, and I thought it worked really well with the overall plot.
I always thought that Steven panicking, pulling the rope back and revealing the beast, allowed it to enter into their plane, which brought about the chaos of the 2nd attack.
Yes sadly Dominque Dunne was murdered. 😢
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. She passed away on November 4,1982.
Did you recognize the construction worker catcaller(17:30) as Billy from Predator? "There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man."
This movie combines elements of several alleged real life hantings, including the case behind the film The Entity. The actress playing the oldest daughterwas unalived just after production of the mini-series V had started (she was playing the original Robin Maxwell). Exactly ONE wide shot of Dminique as Robin remains in the film.
I like how your confused how people get drugs...your very innocent.
That was funny. 😂
12:10 Yes, react to Clue 💜💜
Fun trivia:the hands that tear off the paranormal investigator's face are Steven Spielberg's.
Yeah she passed away at the age of 12. After she finished the 3 film
She didn't finish the 3rd film..that's why the ending was rushed and her face is not seen when the aunt is holding her in the arms....💔
What happen to her
@@tylermorgan5230 O'Rourke's cause of death was ruled congenital stenosis of the intestine complicated by septic shock. She had two cardiac arrests on the way to the hospital. They tried to bring her back for 30 minutes of CPR.
@@tylermorgan5230she had some kind of sickness. You can tell something is wrong with her in the third movie. Her face is really swollen.
@marylena6193 yeah I forgot that she was not able to finish the last one. But I did remember that it was the last one was when she passed away. She was freaking awesome.
As a kid, part of what terrified me most about this movie, and it remains true today, is that it never feels like a "horror" movie. It feels like a Spielberg movie that suddenly becomes terrifying. The tone is identical to E.T. and that lulls you into complacency.
This film casts a slightly harder eye on its family. Dee Wallace in "E.T." is "lovable, spacey mom" but JoBeth Williams here is pretty negligent until she turns into a maternal saint (who still gets punished in the end), which is a fascinating turn-around.
My guess on the tower of chairs on the table is: When the mom walked to the cabinet the crew removed the chairs from the table and quickly placed a pre-made chair tower on the table....
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thats what i thought probably in past...but rewatching this so many times...this time i though they probably superglued chairs or tied together
@@clarkkenttheman well yeah the chair tower would
Have to be pre-made and glued together for sure
That's what is said exactly happened. But as another person here said, they had to be connected for the crew standing off camera, do it so.quickly and precisely
Of course...either glue or...but someone probably said we need about 10 seconds please of herbin kitchen lol
Tweety didn’t like the smell of the box…..because mummy &daddy use the same box to keep their devils lettuce in.
It's not that we perceived the world to be safer back then, it's that today people perceive the world as more dangerous. Bad things have always happened to good people. It wasn't until the fusion of cell phones and social media that people started becoming afraid of their own shadows.
Bingo
Somewhat true. But there have been several documented Uber killers, it’s trippy that anyone can pick people up now. Probably why you have to be over 18 to even have an account. I don’t think people are “afraid of their own shadows” I think people are more informed thus less naive than they were in the 80s.
"They're here!!!!"
Great reaction Andrew and Aaron! 😊
This is another great classic horror movie that I grew up with in the 80s.
12:10 Yes! Andrew, you must watch "Clue"! Such a fun movie.
The clown scene in this movie is why I'm, for the most part, terrified of clowns.
Another great classic horror movie that I very highly recommend is the original 1990 2 part mini-series "Stephen King's IT".
Looking forward to the next reaction. 😊
"you only moved the headstones!"
A great line.
That is my favorite quote from the movie. The whole thing and him screaming at the end. It's so crazy and so good. Like he's absolutely losing it lol, rightfully so.
Fun fact, they used real human skeletons in the end pool scene. The actors were not aware of it.
This movie is definitely one of my favorite from this era! It still holds up in my humble opinion
As earlier mentioned, the kitchen table effect was accomplished by having the chairs stacked and fastened together in advance and when the camera panned away from the table, crew members ran in, put the chair stack on the table and removed the chairs from the floor. They made so much noise, the sound needed replaced with foley. The effect of the stretching hallway was achieved with an old optical trick. You zoom in on your final shot. Visually, the zoom lens closes in the distance between the camera and the far wall. With the camera rolling, you zoom out, while at the same speed as the zoom, you move the camera forward. That changes the perceived distance while keeping the foreground the same perspective during the move. Alfred Hitchcock used this effect to convey a fear of heights in the film Vertigo. The effects were produced by ILM, the premiere effects house at the time, and I feel still. The scene where Mr. Teague tells Steven that they had moved the cemetery before, he mentions that Carol Anne was born in the house which gives more motivation for the Poltergeists to take her and not Robbie. They used Robbie as a distraction for the family while they kidnap Carol Anne. Dominique Dunn was murdered by her boyfriend. Heather O'Rourke had a genetic defect that was mis-diagnosed for years. When they were operating to correct it, she had a heart attack and passed. I enjoyed your reaction, but while watching, you asked many questions that were answered, but you missed them while talking. You do yourself a great disservice by not giving your full attention to the film. I Guess that's the nature of reaction videos.
How old were you when you first saw Poltergeist?!
I saw it in ‘87 when I was 3! Absolutely terrified!!
9 yrs old at the theater 😮
I was maybe 13, in the mid 80's. It was scary, but I loved it!
Honestly can't remember. It was one of those movies that was on TV a lot during the 1980s, when I was in my pre-teens.
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The expanding hallway was a combination of a camera dolly zoom and physically extending the hallway. You can see the staggered walls.
You should watch Always from 1989 next to see more Spielberg.
I saw it at age 13 on HBO, one year after it left the theater. Scared the hell out of me! Practical effects were awesome!
Sadly, yes, she died. Her nane was Heather O'Rourke. May she R. I.P.
P.S. Not trying to nitpick, but Tobe is pronounced as Toby. Just helping out, guys.
I will forever associate the HBO intro with this movie as I was a child exposed to this film on the channel.
Trivia: "This house is clean line" is use by Ace Ventura in the that film .
They mention that
I think the false sense of security for the final part is actually really effective and makes it scarier and more tense, and you couldn't really have that without resolving the already established plotline, they wouldn't feel safe if they didn't have Carol Anne back yet.
So the reason why there was a cut in the scene between the kitchen chair moving and then going to the neighbors asking if any strange things have happened, was because in the original movie that was released in theaters, Craig T Nelson says "I hate Pizza Hut," when Carolann asks again if they can go to Pizza Hut, plus because it was a product placement, they decided to take out that line when Crag T Nelson talks about hating PH, basically so to not anger Pizza Hut. It's such a weird cut.
Also, those skeletons in the pool? Real cadavers. Big controversy many years ago. And they say this movie series resulted in a curse, because the eldest daughter was murdered a year after filming, then others actors after Heather O'Rourke passed away. A few people in the sequels. Crazy. (As you can tell, I am a walking Wikipedia for this movie hahaha)
I was one of the adult studets at our local community college.
The residence hall had a free showing of Poltergeist.
When they showed the scene with the cllown, one girl said, "There's that f**king clown!"
We all laughed.
As we were leaving the auditorium,that girl was saying,"I knew that clown was going to do something!"
Yes. The little girl died from a strange disease after Poltergeist 3 (1988). The girl playing the oldest daughter was stabbed to death by her boyfriend about a year after this movie. 😢
little girl died from an intestinal blockage giving her sepsis and the older daughter was strangled
34:06 Robbie tells them what to do and no one even realizes it. This movie holds up so well and will still be scary years from now.
The oldest daughter was killed by her boyfriend not long after this movie.
There is no Carol in there is only Zuul 😂
I'm from NJ where never rarely have earthquakes. We just experienced a 4.8 Friday. 😳🤯 And the eclipse is scheduled for tomorrow. I pretty sure "They're Here."🤣🤣
Side note: Chester cheetah wasn't around back then. I think it was a hamster. And the gunk was simulating afterbirth
STEPHEN KING'S "SILVER BULLET" ??
Love that one.
I have a remote for my fan that's on the same frequency as my tv. Whenever I turn my fan off or on, my tv turns off. That, or I have poltergeist.
The “gunk” is ectoplasm.
Yeah they kept talking about Ghostbusters but somehow they didn't get it was ectoplasm, lol
They were too distracted worrying about inconsequential things.@@Fedorevsky
When you mentioned 1988 it creeped me out. That was the year the child actress, Heather O'Rourke died. Creepy.
Such a classic film. One of the few horror films that were nominated for Oscars, 3 in total (lost to E.T) but remains a bone-chilling ghost story with an excellent climax.
Yup, it’s so sad, that the two actresses of big-sister Dana AND little Carol Anne both died tragically! 😢 Dominique Dunne (Dana) was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, just ONE MONTH after the US premiere of this film, back in 1982. She was only 22. Heather O'Rourke (little Carol Anne) died in 1988, and didn’t even get to see her self in Poltergeist 3, which was only released 4 months after her passing. She only made it to the age of 12, and died of a “bowel obstruction”, that her doctors had previously dismissed as Crohn's disease. Her condition had also caused the young actress to “swell up” quite a bit, prior to her death, which is evident to see in Poltergeist 3. So many made comments about her looking “chubby” in Poltergeist 3, and clearly they didn’t know what was going on with her 😢
May they both rest in peace 💙
Loved seeing Andrew pout half-way through 😀
The second poltergeist movie still haunts me to this day.
PEOPLE NEVER MOVE OUT OF THEIR HAUNTED HOUSEEESSS. Like as soon as some weird shit happens id be OUT.
Exactly. Especially the chairs piled up on the table. Yet the mom just doesn't react that much !
I remember eddie murphy had a whole bit about that in one of his early comedy sets. Lol.
Today their house is easily $500-600,000. You don’t just walk away from that kind of mortgage.
My favorite part is when they go get Carolanne and Tangina says " Now open the door. " yes im obsessed!
To funny thinking the old cemetery was only in their yard...
It was the entire neighborhood!
Yup, it was the whole development of cuesta verde. In the book it said that the neighbors were experiencing disturbances as well, just not to their degree.
Lets clear the air about the "curse"... there is no curse. Were real medical skeletons used in the movie, yes. But Goonies, Raiders of the Lost Ark... and, ya know.. ANY movie that had a skeleton back in the day. Just because Dominique Dunne was killed by her boyfriend and Heather O'Rorque died of sepsis due to a misdiagnosis YEARS later does not mean its cursed. Films have HUNDREDS of people involved in production... and sometimes people die. This curse-mongering doesnt due their memory or their lives any justice.
Yeah not to mention science class at schools often had one too back in the day, they were just cheaper than plastic skeletons at that time
Damn where you related to someone on set you seem personally offended 😂😂
Definitely cursed
Poltergeist was not seen as a "kids movie" homie. The ratings system didn't even have a pg13 yet, so movies thay had an edge to it, but weren't super hardcore violent, usulally got a PG rating. Even if it had a little nudity, it usually got a PG. That's why PG13 was created, to bridge the gap between PG and R. Its so odd seeing how young reactors have such an off perception of older movies
Tangina is played by Zelda Rubinstein. She is great character actor. The older daughter, Dana, is played by Dominique Dunne. The actress was murdered by her boyfriend soon after the movie was shot. Rip Dominique Dunne.
Lol..."As an actor I would not take this role because I would have to stare at a TV..."
Oh my fucking god.
So delicate.
49:49 "This house is clean... that should be a classic" It is 🤦🏻♂️
Yes to Clue reaction! This movie creep me out as a kid. Had bad nightmares for awhile. The old man in sequel terrified me back then. Hopefully you guys react to that one. Sad the young actress died at very early age
The part where the mother tries to open the kids bedroom door made all the popcorn go flying in the theatre.
I remember my dad being excited to show me this movie and I was definitely under 10 years old. I found the tree frightening and still creeps me out if I stay somewhere and there is a tree you beside the window. I also became scared of static which as a child of the 90s. If you went on the wrong channel, it could be static or the lines so I would quickly get off of that channel before anything could happen. This is a movie I will always go back to especially during Halloween season because it's one I grew up on. I watched the remake and it was not good, but it was a movie I could put on in the background for noise.
I saw this shortly after it came out. I was 5 I think. Scared me to death. Every time our TV went off at midnight I was terrified 😮
Def watch the Poltergeist documentary!! Crazy!
Fun Fact ET and this movie was shot on the same street because Spielberg likes this kind of family life in his sets.
Classic movie... love seeing this through your eyes all these years later! This was filmed in Simi Valley, CA about 10 minutes from my house and that home is still there today! It was ahead of its time and the true charm is the family love in the middle of spooky happenings. Watching these practical effects makes this all the more special all these years later. Love your channel guys and please keep up the great job!
1982 was arguably the best SciFi/Fantasy film year ever.
Yeah we was hard back then, weed was nothing in movies lol
This was fun, thanks for this reaction! When I worked at Radio Shack we had tv remotes with RF (radio frequency) control. They both probably just had something like the same remote from the same store but forgot to just flick the little switch that changes it to the alt frequency somewhere inside the remote. Crappy RS employees not telling them to, "Use this switch if you get interference from another remote," lol. Also, I hope you get to see the sequel together if you want to know more lore about why this happened to them and their house, where it is all explained. It is a pretty creepy sequel too. Maybe not as well regarded but definitely essential for the story about this family's supernatural experiences.
Saw this opening night as a kid. Pretty much emotionally scarred childhood-me for ages XD The worst was that bloody tree. I had one that looked like that living outside my bedroom window. Every storm, I kept waiting for it to come crashing through my damned window.
Holy crap man!! You HAVE to watch all the Evil Deads😂😂😂
"This was before clubs..." 🤣🤣🤣 What???
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She's about 16 or so - still underage, but Jesus - so very common back then. Most guys didn't really mean anything by it - we just ignored it or gave it right back to them like she did. She's laughing because she's glad to see her daughter's giving right back to them, not collapsing in a helpless heap and screaming she's feeling violated. Sorry - just think we've gotten a little carried away these days with how we overreact to everything.
This movie is perfection. It still holds up! Saw this in the original theater release - I was in 7th grade, rated pg lol.