Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition) | 
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| Director: Tobe Hooper
Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Jobeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  249 reviews
Sales Rank: 1828
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Original Recording Remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Portuguese (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 114
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
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
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 01/08/2008 Run time: 114 minutes
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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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 Great movie December 1, 2008
I saw this movie as a kid when it first came out and it scared me to death. It played on all my childhood fears (monsters in the closet, attacking trees, and creepy clowns!). As an adult, obviously it is not so scary but still well made, humorous at times, and entertaining. I liked it enough that I wanted to add it to our home movie collection to enjoy over and over. I recommend it to anyone who likes a good ghost story.
classic thriller for a bargain price November 3, 2008
i almost choked on my spit when i saw the price for this classic thriller. to this day i am still fearful of what might be lurking under my bed, thanks to this movie. if you haven't seen this one, you don't know what you are missing. highly recommend, a must have.
classic! October 28, 2008
This movie is highly recommended! The supernatural is something not to be tampered with and in this movie, you will see why! The spooks keep coming and the fun doesnt stop! For this price, why not add it to your horror movie collection!
 25th Anniversary, and this is the treatment you givie it? October 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an excellent film, that shows how good storytelling and wonderful special effects can create thrills and excitement for the whole family! A blockbuster of its day, yet the packaging for this 25th Anniversary Edition is pathetic, cheap, and not at all what this great classic deserves! The only extras are sad, boring pseudo-docs on the super-natural world.....paleassse! I hope the producers of this "special edition" are tormented by poltergeists until they undo this great injustice!
poltiguist movie, July 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was very pleased with the movie and with how fast it arrived at my home.
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