Poltergeist
Published November 8, 2024
Film info
- Title Poltergeist
- Director Tobe Hooper
- Year 1982
- Run time 1hr 54m
- Genres Horror, Comedy
- Tagline They are here
A typical family in a quiet suburb of a normal California faces a frightening ordeal when its home is invaded by a Poltergeist. Late one night, 10-year-old Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke) hears a voice coming from inside the television set... At first, the spirits that invade the Freelings' home seem like playful children. But then they turn angry. And when Carol Anne is pulled from this world into another, Steve and Diane Freeling turn to an exorcist in this horror classic from director Tobe Hooper and producer and screenwriter Steven Spielberg.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 2:31 | So much wrong with the dog stealing the crisps from the kid’s bed. Crisps in bed! |
| 7:33 | This kid has a LOT of Star Wars stuff in their room. |
| 8:56 | The remote control wars are blowing my mind a bit! |
| 15:22 | Slept-walked? |
| 19:33 | The tree outside the window is proper creepy. I wouldn’t like it either. |
| 28:10 | They seem to have their TV up really loud all the time. |
| 34:05 | What a terrible mother! Offering up her daughter as an experiment with the ghosts. |
| 45:53 | Definitely keep that room locked for always. |
| 54:13 | Humidity from structural leakage… what does that mean? |
| 59:18 | Why are they whispering? Literally everyone is awake. |
| 1:09:27 | “Thought I’d come and see how you… wow, Steve, you look like shit.” The kind of moral support you need. |
| 1:13:35 | Capitalism, man. |
| 1:28:56 | She didn’t take much convincing not to go in the scary window. |
| 1:34:24 | Can we blame grey hairs on travelling through an interdimensional poltergeist portal? |
| 1:38:40 | How could you even think about taking a bath in a house filled with trauma like that? |
| 1:50:23 | Motel is what they should have done first time round. |
Thoughts
I really enjoyed this. We had previously watched some behind the scenes about the house disappearing at the end so knew we were building up to that… but I didn’t know anything about how it got there. The tension was brilliant, the kid actors really good and of course Spielberg & Hooper know what they’re doing when it comes to cinematography!
I do wonder if this is going to stand the test of time, of course, because white noise on TV isn’t really a thing anymore, and it’s certainly not something that will evoke memories in the next generations. But we can all relate to coffins coming out of your newly dug swimming pool in the garden, can’t we? Overall a great movie, well made, proper scary and if it wasn’t for that seriously bad edit, it would be a five star film.
Rating: 4 / 5