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Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition) | 
| Director: Tobe Hooper
Actors: JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  279 reviews
Sales Rank: 2942
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Portuguese (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD64751D
UPC: 012569647510
EAN: 0012569647510
ASIN: B000V4UFZK
Theatrical Release Date: June 4, 1982
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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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 They're Here May 7, 2010
Joseph Adams (Superior, WI USA)
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Not even Speilberg and Tobe Hooper (of Texas Chainsaw Massacre fame) can bring this above the level of mediority. Billed as one of the szcariest fright films of the 80s, it hasn't stood the test of time in out and out fear factor. I wouldn't recommend it to anyione but casual horror film fans.
 Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition) January 26, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While living an an average family house in a pleasant neighborhood, the youngest daughter of the Freeling family, Carol Anne, seems to be connecting with the supernatural through a dead channel on the television. It is not for long when the mysterious beings enter the house's walls. At first seeming like harmless ghosts, they play tricks and amuse the family, but they take a nasty turn they horrify the family to death with angry trees and murderous dolls, and finally abduct Carol Anne into her bedroom closet, which seems like the entrance to the other side.
Poltergeist is quite the genuine horror thriller. It pulls you inside its devious mind like the little girl being sucked into the white noise of the television portal. The characters are believable and the suspence hits you stone cold, like a boxer's right jab in your face. Poltergeist is certainly one of the most influential supernatural movies of its generation. Poltergeist will shake your norms and rattle your soul.
 Love the movie but... December 14, 2009
N. F. Lewis
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
...the allegedly new DVD didn't work. I have had the worst luck with Amazon and its vendors. Unusable CD, wrong CD, wrong and unusable CD, paid for an expediting fee and and got a standard shipment, and then this. I am going elsewhere for my media needs.
A second version December 2, 2009
J. C. Bennett (Washington, DC United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My husband and myself watch on an early version of pay per view in 1982 and the version we saw in the hotel in New York had at least two if not three scenes. The conversation in the kitchen was longer and the Mr. Freeling suggested they speak to the their neighbors. There as an horrific scene in the kitchen dealing with the dead bird. I can't recall the other scene but it had some to do with the dead. Am I imagining things or did my husband and myself just happen to pay for a special copy for the hotel we were staying in for the weekend. The hotel was the Milford Plaza.
Please, someone help me.
It's baaaaack..... November 23, 2009
Susan C. Parks (Highland, CA United States)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
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!
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