Product Description

They're here. At first, the ghosts haunting the Freelings' new home seem playful, rearranging furniture and interfering with their TV reception. Then, little Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) is abducted into their netherworld, and her parents (Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams) fear they may have lost their child to specters with more malevolent intentions. Produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Tobe Hooper; Zelda Rubenstein, Beatrice Straight co-star. 114 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Surround stereo, French Dolby Digital Surround stereo, Portuguese Dolby Digital mono, Spanish Dolby Digital Surround stereo; Subtitles: English (SDH), Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, French; documentary.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5330 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2007-10-09
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese
• Dubbed in: French, Portuguese, Spanish
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 114 minutes

Features

• DVD
• 16 X 9 LETTERBOX
• O-Sleeve Amaray
• Dolby Surround 2.0 - Spanish Dolby Surround 5.1 - English Dolby Surround Stereo - English Dolby Surround Stereo - French Mono 1.0 - Portuguese

Amazon.com
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