Poltergeist (1982) | Full Length Reaction!
Added 2024-10-31 18:16:22 +0000 UTCHAPPY HALLOWVEEN!!! As spoopy season comes to an end we are going out with my reaction to Poltergeist (1982)! This movie is SOOO much better then I thought it would be!!
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have not seen this since i was a kid, we both got a reaction.
jason kelly
2025-12-02 17:48:16 +0000 UTCAn acquaintance of mine who collects movie memorabilia owns that damn clown doll! I'm not a fan.
John Neiberger
2024-11-02 00:45:00 +0000 UTCSo sad spooky season is over, loved the classics you checked out and hope next year we get jump into a lot of the more modern horror
Rey
2024-11-01 15:26:20 +0000 UTCBecause of spookily edited early 90s TV spots on the USA network, I didn't see this movie till my 30s. Carolanne looking at TV static scared the absolute crap out of me as a kid in those. It literally made me afraid of real TV static. Before that though, in the late 80s when HBO would do a free weekend I'd try to watch Fraggle Rock in the morning, but instead sometimes they would show Poltergeist III, quite often, and that film I watched without having any concept of what came before it or that it even was a sequel. I was watching it when I was like 6, haha. It was the very first time I had a TV in my room, and I got to experiment for the first time watching things alone as a kid. Along with other scarier visuals later on in the film, the entire mood and music and cinematography, the color palate of the movie scared me. even the navy blue opening titles font scared me, I can't quite explain it. Minor spoiler for III, it takes place in a high rise apt building, and THIS MOVIE MADE ME AFRAID OF HIGH RISE APTS AS A KID! lol I did see clips from this original Poltergeist film quite often later on, on show's like VH1's I Love The 80s, as well as movie Special Effects shows showcasing ILM's effects work on The Discovery Channel, etc When I first actually watched Poltergeist, so many parts were edited out for the movie to keep a television rating and to fit into a time slot. I thought the movie was okay, but it didn't impress me much. That part with the guy's face coming off DEFINATELY wasn't included! lol It took me by complete shock when I first watched it online as opposed to on basic cable. As far as I've heard some of the bodies were real, not most of them. Seeing the full film without parts edited out I liked it much more. This year I dressed up as confusing political fearmongering, AKA "the late great Hannibal Leichter".
YodatheHobbit
2024-11-01 12:42:47 +0000 UTCThe National Anthem in the beginning, in 1980’s the major tv stations still didn’t have 24/7 broadcasting and at the end of the night, they would play the National Anthem then cut to static which made this movie extra scary because every home had a tv that would play static in the middle of the night if it was on, making it feel like ghosts could enter any home. The girl that plays Carol Ann, Heather O’Rourke died during the filming of the third movie. Rumor has it that there are scenes where they get a double to play her but you only see the back of her head for the rest of the film. Her family says she completed her scenes but the director claims he had to do a rewrite to accommodate for her absence. The hype of other people dying around these films is just hype. People die during the making of films once a while. These deaths just happen to be around a spooky film. Similar to when you compare the incidents around the Bermuda Triangle, which was a big deal back in the day, with the incidents of the entire oceans of the globe, they end up not being that unusual; which is why you don’t hear anything about the Bermuda Triangle anymore. Now that the whole world is connected. Some mysteries were only mysteries because of the social and informational bubbles we lived in. Heather O’Rourke (Carol Anne) died at the age of 12 of cardiac arrest and septic shock stemming from a misdiagnosed intestinal stenosis before Poltergeist III was released. Dominique Dunne (Dana) was murdered by her ex-boyfriend five months after the film's release. Julian Beck, who played Kane in the sequel, died of cancer while shooting the film (he was aware of his condition when he signed up). Will Sampson, who played Taylor in the sequel, died of kidney failure a year after that film's release. All of these deaths have led to a rumor that the production was haunted, on account of the prop master reportedly using actual skeletons. The skeletons were real because prop rubber skeletons had to be made by hand at the time and it would’ve been more expensive and nobody just had a bunch of replicas back then. The skeletons were purchased from Carolina Biological that mainly sold human remains to medical schools. The skeletons were purchased bleached, cleaned, and bolted together like the skeletons hanging upright in a biology class, as in just the bones. The special effects team dressed them up to look like they had decaying flesh on them. The scene in the bathroom with the pulling apart of the face is actually being done by Steven Spielberg himself. They didn’t have a spare face so he did it so it would be done right. The chair stacking scene was also done in one take. When I look back on my memories of this movie, the kitchen and face scene, the clown doll scenes, and the portal scenes stand out as the most traumatizing and memorable lol. But now that I see them decades later, I wonder how I could’ve thought the face scene was scary. Today, I can tell how badly and unreal that face looked, lol. The goop on the tennis balls, rope, and Carol Ann and Dana when they fell through the portal is meant to symbolize ‘ectoplasm’ the biological organic side effect from the real world interacting with the ghost plane of existence. Stephen King was asked to write the script but, allegedly, asked for too much money. Drew Barrymore auditioned for the role of Carol Ann but Spielberg thought she would be better for ET which released 1 week after this film. The tree scene was shot backwards. Robbie was actually spit out by the tree, not swallowed. Poltergeist was inspired by a Twilight Zone episode called Little Girl Lost which is about a girl that goes into another dimension through her bedroom wall. This movie was actually shot on an Indian burial ground, of sorts. In 1969, the burial ground was discovered when it was unearthed during construction of a supermarket in the suburban neighborhood now known as Angora Hills, LA, which is where the film was shot in 1981. The film was shot in the neighborhood, not in the supermarket though, lol.
Raptor
2024-11-01 06:10:13 +0000 UTC"They're H-e-e-e-r-e!" lol
ButtercupsTrueLove
2024-11-01 04:32:00 +0000 UTCIm wearing a Chewbacca mask and regular office clothes. I have your reaction playing out on my porch passing out candy, mostly for when I don't have any customers.
Brian's Dog
2024-11-01 01:11:52 +0000 UTCI thought this movie was all fun and games until I went ghost hunting for real a couple years back and experienced a real poltergeist. We had a flashlight on an side table. The theory was a ghost could interact with the light flickering it to some yes/no question. 30 min into or asking questions, the ghost must of got annoyed because the flashlight flung itself off the table damn near hitting me in the shoulder. I have it all on video too.
Thats MR. Baldamort
2024-10-31 22:08:07 +0000 UTCI'd dress up as Dracula if I still had long hair, but I cut it last year. Poltergeist is a GREAT choice btw! "Don't go to the light!"
WarriorPoet1980
2024-10-31 19:55:21 +0000 UTCI love how casually the parents smoke weed in this. I never picked up on it until I was in my 30s and starts smoking hahaha
djKENTO
2024-10-31 19:24:13 +0000 UTCJust watched this a couple days ago, cool movie thanks for the reaction V
Matt
2024-10-31 18:46:27 +0000 UTCThis movie scared TF out of me as a kid. This, and "The Twilight Zone Movie". Seems so tame now.
Tom W.
2024-10-31 18:23:02 +0000 UTC
