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Poltergeist (Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray] | ![Poltergeist (Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZWTzLZPAL._SL160_.jpg)
| Actors: Dirk Blocker, Robert Broyles, Martin Casella, Noel Conlon, Dominique Dunne
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $34.99
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Rating:  278 reviews
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Castillian (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Castillian (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7 x 5.6 x 0.5
MPN: 1000019050
UPC: 012569798496
EAN: 0012569798496
Theatrical Release Date: 1982
Release Date: October 14, 2008
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| • | ?Theyre here,? - seeming almost whimsical at first, playing stack-the- chair games in the Freelings kitchen. Then things turn darker. A storm erupts, a tree attacks and little Carol Anne Freeling is whisked into a spectral void. As her family confronts horrors galore and fights to bring the youngster back, something else is here too: a new benchmark in Hollywood ghost stories. Producers Steven Spi |
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Warner Brothers Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition) (Blu-ray)What a combo! Tobe Hooper, the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, teamed up with family-oriented producer Steven Spielberg to make Poltergeist. The film is about a haunted suburban tract home in a development very much like the Arizona one inwhich Spielberg was raised. (Because it came out the same summer as Spielberg's E.T., it was tempting to see both movies as representing Spielberg's ambivalent feelings about childhood in suburbia. One was a fantasy, the other a nightmare.) Spielberg also cowrote the screenplay, which taps into primal, childlike fears of monsters under the bed, monsters in the closet, sinister clown faces, and all manner of things that go bump in the night. At first, some of the odd happenings in the house are kind of funny and amusing, but they grow graduallycreepier until the film climaxes in a terrifying special-effects extravaganza when 5-year-old Carole Anne (Heather O'Rourke) is kidnapped by the spooks and held hostage in another dimension. Though not nearly as frightening as Hooper's magnum opus, or the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, which came along two years later, Poltergeist is one of the smartest and most entertaining horror pictures of its time.
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What a combo! Tobe Hooper, the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, teamed up with family-oriented producer Steven Spielberg to make Poltergeist. The film is about a haunted suburban tract home in a development very much like the Arizona one in which Spielberg was raised. (Because it came out the same summer as Spielberg's E.T., it was tempting to see both movies as representing Spielberg's ambivalent feelings about childhood in suburbia. One was a fantasy, the other a nightmare.) Spielberg also cowrote the screenplay, which taps into primal, childlike fears of monsters under the bed, monsters in the closet, sinister clown faces, and all manner of things that go bump in the night. At first, some of the odd happenings in the house are kind of funny and amusing, but they grow gradually creepier until the film climaxes in a terrifying special-effects extravaganza when 5-year-old Carole Anne (Heather O'Rourke) is kidnapped by the spooks and held hostage in another dimension. Though not nearly as frightening as Hooper's magnum opus, or the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, which came along two years later, Poltergeist is one of the smartest and most entertaining horror pictures of its time. --Jim Emerson
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 It's baaaaack..... November 23, 2009
Susan C. Parks (Highland, CA United States)
Just wanted to upgrade from VHS to DVD. The movie was filmed on our street and its cool to see our house a few months new. Steven Spielberg was interesting to watch. At one point he sat in his director chair, in the street (filming was up and down the street) and the kids gathered around. He really tuned into the kids. He asked our son who his favorite director was. Without missing a beat, our son said, "George Lucas". Spielberg laughed aloud. Of course, it was always all about Star Wars from the moment he saw that film. An Army veteran, it still is!
They are heeere... again. This time in Blu-ray November 22, 2009
bernie (Arlington, Texas)
Nothing like giving older films the Blu-ray treatment and allowing a second or third life.
The Freeling family live in a cozy suburb. They are not alone. They live with an old tree that loves tasty children and an assortment of TV people. Their young daughter Carol Anne Freeling goes for a visit beyond the pale. This is just the beginning.
The movie is a classic; many of the things we know about Poltergeists actual came from this movie.
My favorite scene is when they move into a motel and jettison the Twanky.
If you are not familiar with a Twanky, It is more of a TV that has a tendency to follow you here and there.
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 Poltergeist- They're here.... October 26, 2009
Jose Lopez (Miami,Florida USA)
Poltergeist seeing as A Kid was impressive and downright scary. It's a Movie that you want to see during the day, It gives you the chills! Ghosts, Weird Things, Happenings, They do Exist. It's not Far Fetched as Perhaps UFOS? or Bigfoot. Movie is very Very Good. Great Acting too.A Classic!
A true ghost story classic that stood the test of time! October 3, 2009
John Lindsey (Socorro, New Mexico USA.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It seems like a typical suburbs with the Freeling family in California, the young 5 year old daughter Carol Ann (Heather Rouke) seems to be communicating with people in the TV. The parents named Diane and Steve (JoBeth Williams and Craig T.Nelson) are skeptical about the odd behavior going on at the house such as chairs moving by themselves, lights turning on and off on their own and plenty of other weird things, even the son Robbie (Oliver Robins) and teenage daughter Dana (Dominque Dunne) are weirded out by strange things in the house. It seems the house does have secrets from the past left untold including being near the cemetery as these ghosts seem friendly and playful at first. Later it turns out they abduct little Carol Ann into a vortex inside the house trapping her in as they purposely terrorize the family. They hire some paranormal experts (Beatrice Straight, Martin Casella and Richard Lawson) including a dwarfish psychic named Tagina (Zelda Rubinstein) to bring her back and clean the house of spirits.
Terrifying and original supernatural horror drama from writer-producer Steven Spielberg and director Tobe Hooper is one of the greatest horror movies of all time. It's based on Spielberg's old childhood fears even of ghosts then turned into a screenplay that got approved by MGM then directed by Tobe Hooper as it took nearly a year and a half to make, in June of 1982 along with Spielberg's phemeoneal ET sweeping the box-office by storm this movie came along and also became one of the highest grossing and most critically acclaimed movies of the year. Brilliant acting by the cast that even launched the career of Craig T. Nelson, excellent special effects that hold up today, a memorable score by Jerry Goldsmith and jolts galore in this non-stop rollercoaster ride of pure thrills and scares.
This Blu-Ray offers one hell of a transfer with terrific sound as it's in a book with a mini-behind the scenes look at this remarkable motion picture with a 2 part Documentary on actual poltergeists and the trailer.
 Reviewing the blu-ray content, not the movie October 1, 2009
S. Carr
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
1. I love this film, and this review is not a review of the film.
Okay...that out of the way. The extra features are horrible. No commentary? No behind-the-scenes?
The only extras are a couple documentaries about real life ghost hunting, which in my book equates to nothing.
However, the remastering is decent enough to warrant rebuying on blu-ray if you're a big fan of the film.
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