Poltergeist [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	JoBeth Williams Heather O'Rourke Craig T. Nelson Beatrice Straight Dominique Dunne
	Video by:	MGM (Warner)
	Sales Rank:	149937

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Actor(s):
JoBeth Williams
Heather O'Rourke
Craig T. Nelson
Beatrice Straight
Dominique Dunne

Creators:
Matthew F. Leonetti (Cinematographer)
Frank Marshall (Producer)
Kathleen Kennedy (Producer)
Steven Spielberg (Producer)
Steven Spielberg (Writer)
Mark Victor (Writer)
Michael Grais (Writer)

Director(s):
Tobe Hooper

Recording label: MGM (Warner)
EAN: 9786304509159
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 0792835921
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC,
Release Date: 1997-08-26
Universal product code (UPC): 027616622631
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: R (Restricted)

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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

Running time: 114 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)