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Poltergeist DVD

PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) :: Turner Entertainment :: Released: 2000-01-25

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Poltergeist Summary This Awesome Supernatural Thriller Stars Craig T. Nelson And Jobeth Williams As A California Couple Swept Up In A Wave Of Horror After Sinister Spirits Invade Their Home And Kidnap Their Child. Year: 1982 Director: Tobe Hooper Starring: Craig T. Nelson, Jo Beth Williams, Beatrice Straight

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

Techincal Details Cast: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne
Director: Tobe Hooper
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 114 mins
UPC: 027616603999
Binding: DVD
Studio: Turner Entertainment
Release Date: 2000-01-25
Region Code: 1
Specs: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0), Spanish (Dubbed - Dolby Digital 2.0),