Product Description

Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams. A Steven Spielberg classic places a typical suburban family in harm's way when beings from the other side" infiltrate their home and scare the bejeezes out of them with a series of bizarre and terrifying events. Celebrate the 25-year-old nightmare for the Freeling family with no let-up of the same sheer horror it invoked as when it was first released! 1982/color/114 min/PG.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22273 in DVD
• Brand: MCMANUS,MICHAEL
• Released on: 2008-10-14
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Castillian, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Castillian, Spanish
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 114 minutes

Features

• ?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

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