| | Poltergeist DVD (5 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Warner Store DVDs, Warner Theatrical Movies, Horror Videos, Recommended, Family Interaction, Essential Cinema, Ghosts, Psychic Forces, AFI Top 100 Thrills, AFI Top 100 Movie Quotes | | Starring | Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robbins | | Director | Tobe Hooper | | Associate Producer | Kathleen Kennedy | | Composer | Jerry Goldsmith | | Director of Photography | Matthew F. Leonetti | | Director Uncredited | Steven Spielberg | | Producer | Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall | | Screenwriter | Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais, Mark Victor |
DVD. Feature film. Stars JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, & Beatrice Straight. 114 min. Rated PG. Dolby dig. 5.1. Wi descreen & standard. Sound & subtitles in Engl., French, & Spanish. W/ scene access. Keepcase, 8 pg bklet of trivia, p roduction notes, & mking of film, orig. theatrical trailer. Ghosts invade suburbia in this 1982 horror film from director Tobe Hooper (TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE) and producer Steven Spielberg. Life in the Freeling family's tract home is comfortably bland, but frisky poltergeists soon put a little excitement into their daily routine--moving furniture and communicating with their youngest daughter, Carol Anne, through the television set. Unfortunately, harmless pranks quickly turn nasty and the previously friendly ghosts kidnap Carol Anne, trapping her in the spirit world. To win the child back, the family calls in a team of parapsychologists and a psychic who conducts an elaborate exorcism. The apocalyptic finale is deliciously macabre, and pushed the limits of the PG rating. A number of sequels followed, and speculation still remains on whether Spielberg--who wrote the story and storyboarded the action--essentially ghost directed the film. Filmed in Metrocolor and Panavision.
Film was originally rated R by the MPAA, but received a PG on appeal.
Academy Award Nominations: Best Original Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Effects Editing. Poltergeist Quotes/Excerpts: "They're here!" -- Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke) about the poltergeists Poltergeist Reviews: "...[The film is] strong on technique....Well-acted....Williams is terrific..."
-- Har., Variety "...POLTERGEIST is like a thoroughly enjoyable nightmare, one that you know that you can always wake up from....Witty in a fashion that Alfred Hitchcock might have appreciated..."
-- Vincent Canby, New York Times Included in The New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1982"
-- Vincent Canby, New York Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "POLTERGEIST balances genuine scares with light relief and a top performance from Heather O'Rourke....Classic stuff."-- Kat Brown, Empire 3 stars out of 5 -- "The performances are solid, the themes intriguing and the whispery build-up effective..."-- Jamie Graham, Total Film Poltergeist | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1982 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  1333  | | CD Universe Part number | 1286812 | | Catalog number | 65064 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Sep 26, 2006 | | Rating | PG (MPAA) | | Running Time | 114 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color; Dolby Surround AC-3 Sound; Dolby Noise Reduction |
Poltergeist DVD DVD Features
Region 1
Full Frame -
1.33 - English
Widescreen - 2.35 - English
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Surround - Spanish
Dolby Digital Surround - French
Additional Release Materail:
Trailer -
1. Original Theatrical
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