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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Tobe Hooper |
| Stars: |
JoBeth Williams |
| Actors: |
Dominique Dunne |
| Genre: |
Horror/Suspense |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended · Ghosts · Psychic Forces · Family Interaction · Essential Cinema |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition |
| UPC: |
027616641236 |
| Release Date: |
1982 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 55min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Dual Sided Widescreen/Pan & Scan, 1hr 55min
Release Company: MGM Home Entertainment (August 22, 1997)
UPC: 027616603999 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 55min
Release Company: Warner Home Video (August 26, 1997)
UPC: 027616622631 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Mark Victor |
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Professional Reviews
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(06/04/1982, p.C16, Vincent Canby): "...POLTERGEIST is like a thoroughly enjoyable nightmare, one that you know that you can always wake up from....Witty in a fashion that Alfred Hitchcock might have appreciated..." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"They're here!" -- Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke) about the poltergeists |
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Ghosts invade suburbia in this 1982 horror film from director Tobe Hooper (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) and producer Steven Spielberg. Life in the Freeling family's tract home is comfortably bland, but frisky poltergeists soon put a little excitement into their daily routine--moving furniture and communicating with their youngest daughter, Carol Anne, through the television set. Unfortunately, harmless pranks quickly turn nasty and the previously friendly ghosts kidnap Carol Anne, trapping her in the spirit world. To win the child back, the family calls in a team of parapsychologists and a psychic who conducts an elaborate exorcism. The apocalyptic finale is deliciously macabre, and pushed the limits of the PG rating. A number of sequels followed, and speculation still remains on whether Spielberg--who wrote the story and storyboarded the action--essentially ghost directed the film. |
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