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| Directed by | Tobe Hooper |
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| Story by | Steven Spielberg |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Matthew F. Leonetti |
| Edited by | Michael Kahn |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
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| Distributed by | MGM/UA Entertainment Co. |
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Running time | 114 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10.7 million |
| Box office | $121.7 million[2] |
Poltergeist is a 1982 Americansupernatural horror film directed byTobe Hooper and written bySteven Spielberg,Michael Grais, andMark Victor from a story by Spielberg. It starsJoBeth Williams,Craig T. Nelson, andBeatrice Straight, and was produced by Spielberg andFrank Marshall. The film follows a suburban family whose home is invaded bymalevolent ghosts that abduct their youngest daughter.
As Spielberg was contractually unable to direct another film while he madeE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hooper was selected based on his work onThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre andThe Funhouse. The origin ofPoltergeist can be traced toNight Skies, which Spielberg conceived as a horror sequel to his 1977 filmClose Encounters of the Third Kind; Hooper was less interested in the sci-fi elements and suggested they collaborate on aghost story.[3] Accounts differ as to the level of Spielberg's involvement, but it is clear that he was frequently on set during filming and exerted significant creative control. For that reason, some have said that Spielberg should be considered the film's co-director or even main director, though both Spielberg and Hooper have disputed this.
Released byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer throughMGM/UA Entertainment Co. on June 4, 1982,Poltergeist was a major critical and commercial success, becoming theeighth-highest-grossing film of 1982. In the years since its release, the film has been recognized as a horror classic. It was nominated for threeAcademy Awards, named by theChicago Film Critics Association as the 20th-scariest film ever made, and a scene madeBravo's100 Scariest Movie Moments.[4][5]Poltergeist also appeared at No. 84 onAmerican Film Institute's100 Years...100 Thrills.[6] The film was followed byPoltergeist II: The Other Side (1986),Poltergeist III (1988), and a2015 remake, but none had the critical success of the original.
Steve and Diane Freeling live in theplanned community of Cuesta Verde, California. Steve is a successful real estate agent, and Diane looks after their three children: sixteen-year-old Dana, eight-year-old Robbie, and a five-year-old Carol Anne. One night, Carol Anne inexplicably converses with the television set while it displays post-broadcaststatic. The next night, she fixates on the television again, and a ghostly white hand emerges from the screen, followed by a violent earthquake. As the family is shaken awake by the quake, Carol Anne eerily intones, "They're here."
The following day is filled with bizarre events: a glass of milk spontaneously breaks, silverware bends, and furniture moves on its own. These phenomena initially seem benign, but soon grow sinister. During a severe thunderstorm, the gnarled backyard tree seemingly comes alive. A branch crashes through the children's bedroom window, grabs Robbie and pulls him outside into the pouring rain as it attempts to devour him. While the family rushes outside to help Robbie, Carol Anne is pulled into a portal inside the closet. After saving Robbie from the tree, which got sucked into a tornado, the family frantically search for Carol Anne, only for her voice to call out from the television.
Parapsychologist Martha Lesh arrives with team members Ryan and Marty to investigate. They determine there is apoltergeist intrusion involving multipleghosts. Meanwhile, Steven learns from his boss Lewis Teague that the Cuesta Verde development was built on top of a former cemetery and the graves were moved to a nearby location.
Dana and Robbie are sent away for safety, while Dr. Lesh calls in Tangina Barrons, aspiritual medium. After touring the house, Tangina explains that their daughter is now in a different plane of existence occupied by spirits who have not found rest. In their dreamlike state, they are drawn away from the path to the afterlife by Carol Anne's life force. Tangina also reveals that a powerfuldemonic presence she calls "the Beast" is holding Carol Anne captive and using her to restrain the other spirits from crossing over.
The entrance to the other dimension is in the children's bedroom closet and exits through the living room ceiling. Diane, secured by a rope, passes through the portal, guided by another rope previously threaded through both portals. Diane retrieves Carol Anne, and they drop through the ceiling to the living room floor, covered inectoplasm. As they recover from the ordeal, Tangina proclaims the house is "clean".
Shortly after, the Freeling family have nearly finished packing to move out of the house. Before the family is to leave, Steve heads to his office while Dana is on a date, leaving Diane at home with Robbie and Carol Anne. Subsequently, "the Beast" violently attacks Diane and the children, apparently with the intent of dragging them into its dimension. While running through the backyard in an attempt to get help, Diane stumbles into a flooded swimming poolexcavation. As skeletal corpses float up around her in the muddy hole, Diane crawls out and rushes back into the house. She rescues the children, and they narrowly escape outside as more bodies erupt from the ground.
Accompanied by Teague, Steve arrives back home to the mayhem and discovers that only the gravestones were moved; the development was built over the now unmarked graves. The Freelings jump into their car and collect Dana just as she returns home. They flee Cuesta Verde as the house implodes into a portal while Teague and stunned neighbors look on. The family checks into a room at aHoliday Inn, where Steve promptly removes the TV.
Michael Grais andMark Victor had written an unproduced comedy calledTurn Left And Die and the action filmDeath Hunt, whenSteven Spielberg decided to invite them to possibly work with him. After screeningA Guy Named Joe for them and saying he wanted to remake that film—which he would in 1989'sAlways—Spielberg also mentioned a ghost story idea he intended to turn into a script. Grais called Spielberg the next day saying he and Victor only had interest in the ghost story, and after plans with another writer fell through, Spielberg brought the two to the job.[7] Spielberg wantedStephen King to co-write the screenplay, but he was unavailable.[8]
Principal photography rolled mostly on Roxbury Street inSimi Valley, California.[9][10] Following completion of principal photography in the first week of August 1981, Hooper went on to spend ten weeks in the editing room, compiling the first cut of the film.[11] During much of this time, Spielberg was atIndustrial Light & Magic (ILM), supervising thevisual effects photography.
A clause in Spielberg's contract withUniversal Studios prevented him from directing another film while preparingE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.[12] According toTobe Hooper, the core concept of the film was an idea he pitched to Spielberg after turning down the offer to directNight Skies.[13] Writer Michael Grais stated that "we weren't really 'working' with Spielberg because he was onE.T.", and that Spielberg only had sporadic meetings with the writers in MGM's commissary.[7]E.T. andPoltergeist were released a week apart in June, 1982;Time andNewsweek referred to it as "The Spielberg Summer". There were suggestions that Spielberg, in addition to beingPoltergeist's co-producer and co-writer, had also served as its de facto co-director. This view was bolstered by various statements Spielberg made about his involvement, including aLos Angeles Times quote on May 24, 1982: "Tobe isn't ... a take-charge sort of guy. If a question was asked and an answer wasn't immediately forthcoming, I'd jump in and say what we could do. Tobe would nod agreement, and that became the process of collaboration."[14]
That same article noted that theDirectors Guild of America had opened an investigation into the "question of whether or not Hooper's official credit was being denigrated by statements Spielberg has made, apparently claiming authorship."[15] The investigation ended in an arbitrator's ruling that MGM/UA Entertainment Co. must pay $15,000 to Hooper because the studio gave producer Spielberg a bigger credit than Hooper got in its trailers, although also noting that "broader issues of dispute exist between producer-writer (Spielberg) and the director" (damages of $200,000 were originally sought by the DGA).[16] Co-producerFrank Marshall told theLA Times that "the creative force of the movie was Steven. Tobe was the director and was on the set every day. But Steven did the design for every storyboard, and he was on the set every day except for three days when he was in Hawaii withLucas." However, Hooper stated that he "did fully half of the storyboards."[12]
The week of the film's release,The Hollywood Reporter printed anopen letter from Spielberg to Hooper:
Regrettably, some of the press has misunderstood the rather unique, creative relationship which you and I shared throughout the making ofPoltergeist.
I enjoyed your openness in allowing me, as a writer and a producer, a wide berth for creative involvement, just as I know you were happy with the freedom you had to directPoltergeist so wonderfully.
Through the screenplay you accepted a vision of this very intense movie from the start, and as the director, you delivered the goods. You performed responsibly and professionally throughout, and I wish you great success on your next project.[17]
In a 2007Ain't It Cool News interview,Zelda Rubinstein discussed her recollections of the shooting process. She said "Steven directed all six days" she was on set: "Tobe set up the shots and Steven made the adjustments." She also alleged that Hooper "allowed some unacceptable chemical agents into his work," and that during her audition, "Tobe was only partially there."[18] Comments from actorJames Karen, concerning a 25th-anniversary Q&A event which both attended, categorized Rubinstein's remarks as unfair to Hooper. "She laid into Tobe and I don't know why ... Tobe was kind to her."[19]
In a 2012Rue Morgue article commemoratingPoltergeist's 30th anniversary, interviews were conducted with several cast and crew members. In response to the magazine's query about the authorship issue, cast members unanimously sided with Hooper. James Karen said, "Tobe had a hard time on that film. It's tough when a producer is on set every day and there's always been a lot of talk about that. I considered Tobe my director. That's my stand on all those rumours." Martin Casella stated: "So much ofPoltergeist looks and feels like a Spielberg movie but my recollection is that Tobe was mostly directing." Oliver Robins: "The guy who sets up the shots,blocks the actors and works with the crew to create a vision is the director. In those terms, Tobe was the director. He's the one who directed me, anyway." Make-up and effects artist Craig Reardon said Spielberg often had the final say. The original version of the cancerous steak, for instance, was created by Reardon per Hooper's specifications—but vetoed by Spielberg: "Although the first steak did not represent a killing amount of work, it had consumed enough time and effort—none of which I could afford to waste—that I determined in the future to make certain whatever I prepped would be approved in advance by Spielberg as well as Hooper."[19]
Hooper was asked about the controversy in a 2015 interview with online journalFilm Talk and said the rumors originated from aLos Angeles Times article that reported on Spielberg shooting footage of "little race cars" in front of the house, while Hooper was busy elsewhere shooting another scene. "From there it became its own legend. That is how I remember it; I was making the movie and later on, I heard this stuff after it was finished. I really can't set the record much straighter than that."[20]
According to theBlumhouse Productions website, first assistant cameramanJohn R. Leonetti reported that Spielberg directed the film more so than Hooper, stating, "Hooper was so nice and just happy to be there. He creatively had input. Steven developed the movie, and it was his to direct, except there was anticipation of a director's strike, so he was 'the producer' but really, he directed it in case there was going to be a strike and Tobe was cool with that. It wasn't anything against Tobe. Every once in a while, he would actually leave the set and let Tobe do a few things just because. But really, Steven directed it."[21]
Following Hooper's death in 2017, director Mick Garris, a publicist on the film who made several on-set visits, came to Hooper's defense on thePost Mortem podcast:
Tobe was always calling action and cut. Tobe had been deeply involved in all of the pre-production and everything. But Steven is a guy who will come in and call the shots. And so, you're on your first studio film, hired by Steven Spielberg, who is enthusiastically involved in this movie. Are you gonna say, 'Stop that... let me do this'? Which [Tobe] did.
[...] Tobe was a terrific filmmaker. I don't think it's that Steven was controlling. I think it was Steven was enthusiastic. And nobody was there to protect Tobe. But all of the pre-production was done by Tobe. Tobe was there throughout. Tobe's vision is very much realized there. And Tobe got credit because he deserved credit. Including... Steven Spielberg said that.
[...] Yes, Steven Spielberg was very much involved. It's a Tobe Hooper film.[22]
The special effects forPoltergeist were produced byIndustrial Light and Magic and overseen byRichard Edlund. The film won theBAFTA Award forBest Special Visual Effects and earned a nomination for theAcademy Award for Best Visual Effects, which it lost toE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
The scene of Diane (JoBeth Williams) climbing up the walls was done using a static camera in a rotating set.[23] A similar effect was used inRoyal Wedding to make it look likeFred Astaire was dancing on the ceiling.
Spielberg recalled that the most complicated lighting effects were used in Carol Anne's closet: "There were so many lighting effects: strobes and Las Vegas spots and fish tanks of water to give different kind of diffusion to the beams coming out and four large wind machines... We wanted the light to live."[24]
Thedolly zoom is used in the scene of Diane running down the hallway to Carol Anne's room. This is done by pulling the camera back while zooming the lens forward. InPoltergeist it creates the illusion of expanding space.[25]
The music forPoltergeist was written byJerry Goldsmith, who recalled:
Steven Spielberg called me about five months before [Poltergeist] went into production and wanted to know if I would be interested in doing it. He'd long been an admirer of mine, and we had met several times. I said I'd be very interested, so he sent me a script and I loved it. I was very excited about being involved with anything with Spielberg, anyway... With Spielberg, probably more than any other director, there's a tremendous amount of discussion. He's very articulate about music, and one can discuss for hours about approaches. Anything I did was not on my own volition; it was a joint effort in that we both agreed what we were trying to do with the music for the picture. We wanted a childlike theme for the little girl; Spielberg felt that much of the action in the closet should have a quasi-religious atmosphere to it. There was something definitely non-human about it, yet it was not evil all the way. It was discussing specifics like that which resulted in our approach... [Tobe Hooper] was not involved at all with post-production. That was all strictly with Steven, and I worked very closely with him.[26]
Goldsmith wrote several themes for the score, including the lullaby "Carol Anne's Theme" to represent blissful suburban life and the young female protagonist; a semi-religious melody for the souls caught between worlds; and several dissonant, atonal blasts for moments of terror.[27][28] The score went on to garner Goldsmith anOscar nomination forBest Original Score, though he lost toJohn Williams forE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Early in the film a poster for the filmAlien, for which Goldsmith also composed the score, is visible on a wall of the younger children's bedroom.
Goldsmith's score was first released in 1982 on LP throughMGM Records in a 38-minute version.Rhino Movie Music later released a 68-minute cut on CD in 1997. A two-disc soundtrack album later followed on December 9, 2010 byFilm Score Monthly featuring additional source and alternate material. The 2010 release also included previously unreleased tracks from Goldsmith's score toThe Prize (1963).[27][29]
There is an alternate version of "Carol Anne's theme" which has lyrics. That version is unofficially titled "Bless this House" (which is a line from the chorus). It was not featured in the film but was part of the original album.
A clip ofSpencer Tracy inA Guy Named Joe (1943) can be seen on the TV in the Freelings' bedroom. This is one of Spielberg's favorite childhood films, which he would remake asAlways.Joe is also a film about the afterlife.
The story ofPoltergeist has similarities toThe Twilight Zone episode "Little Girl Lost", about a girl who finds a portal to another dimension in her bedroom; the girl's family (including the dog) can hear her but can't see her. The similarity was noted by the episode's author,Richard Matheson: "They sort of used that idea and made their own concept of it." Matheson said he had a positive relationship with Spielberg, adding "God knows the man has talent."[30]
A sign at the Holiday Inn reads "Welcome Doctor Fantasy and Friends". This is an inside joke; producer Frank Marshall is an amateur magician, and his stage-name is Dr. Fantasy.[31] After a production wraps, Marshall performs magic for the crew.[32]
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Poltergeist initially received anR rating[33] by twenty-four reviewers from theMPAA due to the gory bathroom scene.[34] Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper disagreed with the R rating and succeeded in changing it to PG on appeal.[35]
The film was reissued on October 29, 1982, to take advantage of the Halloween weekend. It was shown in theaters for one night only on October 4, 2007, to promote the new restored and remastered 25th-anniversary DVD, released five days later. This event also included the documentaryThey Are Here: The Real World of Poltergeists, which was created for the new DVD.
ThePoltergeist franchise is believed by some to becursed due to the premature deaths of several people associated with the film (including Heather O'Rourke and Dominique Dunne),[36] a notion that was the focus of anE! True Hollywood Story.
Poltergeist was released by MGM/UA Home Video onVHS,Betamax,CED, andLaserDisc in 1982. On April 8, 1997,MGM Home Entertainment releasedPoltergeist onDVD in a snap case, and the only special feature was a trailer. In 1998,Poltergeist was re-released on DVD with the same cover and disc as the 1997 release, but in a keep case and with an eight-page booklet. In 1999, a snap case edition with the same DVD disc, but a different cover, was released byWarner Home Video (later Warner Bros. Home Entertainment), after the pre-May 1986 MGM library was acquired by theTime Warner-ownedTurner Entertainment Co. Warner tentatively scheduled releases for the 25th anniversary edition of the film on standard DVD,HD DVD, andBlu-ray[37] in Spain and the US on October 9, 2007. The re-release was billed as having digitally remastered picture and sound, and a two-part documentary:They Are Here: The Real World of Poltergeists, which makes extensive use of clips from the film. The remastered DVD of the film was released as scheduled, but both high-definition releases were eventually canceled. Warner rescheduled the high-definition version of the film, and eventually released it only on the Blu-ray format on October 14, 2008.[38]
To commemorate the film's 40th anniversary,Poltergeist was released by Warner Bros. on4K UHD Blu-ray on September 20, 2022.[39]
A novelization was written byJames Kahn, adapted from the film's original screenplay. It was printed in the United States through Warner Books, with the first printing in May 1982.[40] While the film focuses mainly on the Freeling family, much of the book leans toward the relationship between Tangina and Dr. Lesh. The novel also expands upon many scenes from the film, such as the nighttime manifestation of outer-dimensional entities of fire and shadows in the Freelings' living room, and an extended version of the kitchen scene in which Marty watches a steak crawl across a countertop. In the book, Marty is frozen in place and skeletonized by spiders and rats. There are also additional elements not in the film, such as Robbie's mysterious discovery of the clown doll in the yard during his birthday party, and a benevolent spirit, "The Waiting Woman", who protects Carol Anne in the spirit world.
Poltergeist was released byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer on June 4, 1982.[41] The film was a commercial success and earned $76,606,280 in the United States, making it the highest-grossing horror film of1982, and eighth overall for the year.[42]
The film was well received by critics and is considered by many as a classic of thehorror genre[43][44] as well as one of the best films of 1982.[45][46][47] Onreview aggregatorRotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 88% based on reviews from 72 critics, with an average rating of 7.50/10. The site's consensus reads: "Smartly filmed, tightly scripted, and—most importantly—consistently frightening,Poltergeist is a modern horror classic."[48] OnMetacritic it has a score of 79% based on reviews from 16 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[49] Audiences polled byCinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[50]
Roger Ebert gavePoltergeist three stars out of four and called it "an effective thriller, not so much because of the special effects, as because Hooper and Spielberg have tried to see the movie's strange events through the eyes of the family members, instead of just standing back and letting the special effects overwhelm the cast along with the audience."[51]Vincent Canby ofThe New York Times called it "a marvelously spooky ghost story" with "extraordinary technical effects" that were "often eerie and beautiful but also occasionally vividly gruesome."[52]Andrew Sarris, inThe Village Voice, wrote that when Carol Anne is lost, the parents and the two older children "come together in blood-kin empathy to form a larger-than-life family that will reach down to the gates of hell to save its loved ones."[53] In theLos Angeles Herald Examiner, Peter Rainer wrote:
Buried within the plot ofPoltergeist is a basic, splendid fairy tale scheme: the story of a little girl who puts her parents through the most outrageous tribulation to prove their love for her. Underlying most fairy tales is a common theme: the comforts of family. Virtually all fairy tales begin with a disrupting of the family order, and their conclusion is usually a return to order.[53]
John Nubbin reviewedPoltergeist forDifferent Worlds magazine and stated that "Poltergeist is the best thriller that has been made in a lot of years. Between it andE.T., what appears to be an endless summer of hits is being ushered in nicely."[54]
David Thomson, in his entry on Spielberg inThe New Biographical Dictionary of Film, callsPoltergeist "wondrous."[55]
Not all reviews were as positive.Gene Siskel gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four, writing thatPoltergeist "is very good at getting the details of suburban life right—in other words, it sets its stage beautifully—but when it comes time for the terror to begin, the whole thing is very, very silly."[56] Gary Arnold ofThe Washington Post observed that the film "looks and feels decidedly patchy, as if it had been assembled by different hands frequently working at cross purposes."[57]Sheila Benson of theLos Angeles Times wrote, "In terms of simple, flat-out, roof-rattling fright,Poltergeist gives full value. In terms of story, however, simple is indeed the word, and dumb might be a better one. And when so many effects are lavished on a story this frail, you have a lopsided film."[58]
The film continues to receive recognition 40 years after its release.Poltergeist was selected byThe New York Times as one of The Best 1000 Movies Ever Made.[59] It also received recognition from theAmerican Film Institute, with a number 84 ranking onAFI's100 Years...100 Thrills list;[60] "They're here" was named the 69th-greatest movie quote onAFI's100 Years...100 Movie Quotes.[61]
The film received threeOscar nominations:Best Original Score,Best Sound Effects Editing, andBest Visual Effects, losing all three to Spielberg'sE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.[62]
| Year | Association | Category | Result |
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| 1983 | Academy Awards | Academy Award for Best Original Score | Nominated |
| Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing | Nominated | ||
| Academy Award for Best Visual Effects | Nominated | ||
| Saturn Award | Saturn Award for Best Horror or Thriller Film | Won | |
| Saturn Award for Best Make-up | Won | ||
| Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress – Zelda Rubinstein | Won | ||
| Saturn Award for Best Actress – JoBeth Williams | Nominated | ||
| Saturn Award for Best Director – Tobe Hooper | Nominated | ||
| Saturn Award for Best Music – Jerry Goldsmith | Nominated | ||
| British Academy Film Awards | BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects | Won | |
| Young Artist Awards | Young Artist Award for Best Younger Supporting Actress – Heather O'Rourke | Nominated |
In 1986,Poltergeist II: The Other Side retained the family but introduced a new motive for the Beast's behavior, tying him to an evil cult leader named Henry Kane, who led his religious sect to their doom in the 1820s. As the Beast, Kane went to extraordinary lengths to keep his "flock" under his control, even in death. The original motive of the cemetery's souls disturbed by the housing development was thereby altered; the cemetery was now explained to be built above a cave where Kane and his flock met their ends. It also reveals that the women of the family are actually psychics.
Poltergeist III, released in 1988, finds Carol Anne as the sole original family member living in an elaborate Chicago skyscraper owned and inhabited by her aunt, uncle and cousin. Kane follows her there and uses the building's ubiquitous decorative mirrors as a portal to the Earthly plane.
The 1988 Italian filmGhosthouse (also known asLa casa 3), written and directed byUmberto Lenzi, has been described as an imitation of the originalPoltergeist.[63][64]
In 2013, a remake of the originalPoltergeist, produced by MGM and20th Century Fox and directed byGil Kenan, was announced.[65][66][67]Sam Raimi,Rob Tapert, andRoy Lee produced the film, which starsSam Rockwell,Jared Harris, andRosemarie DeWitt.[68]Poltergeist was released on May 22, 2015.[68]
On April 10, 2019, it was announced that theRusso Brothers would helm a new remake.[69]
In October 2023, it was reported that a television series adaptation was in early development atAmazon MGM Studios withAmblin Television's Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey set to executive produce.[70]
"Bad Dream House", the first segment of "Treehouse of Horror", the first episode of the annualThe SimpsonsTreehouse of Horror Halloween specials, is partly a parody ofPoltergeist. The film was also briefly parodied in theFuturamaseason 6 episode "Ghost in the Machines".
The song "Shining" byhorror punk bandMisfits, on their 1997 albumAmerican Psycho, is based directly on the film, with the chorus centered on the refrain: "Carol Anne, Carol Anne".[71]
Spice Girls pays homage to the film in their 1997 music video for the song "Too Much".[72][73]
Two separate animated TV series helmed bySeth MacFarlane have parodiedPoltergeist. In the 2006Family Guy episode "Petergeist",Peter Griffin discovers an Indian burial ground when he attempts to build a multiplex in a backyard. When he takes an Indian chief's skull, a poltergeist invades the Griffins' home. The episode used some of the same musical cues heard in the film and recreates several of its scenes.[74]American Dad! also parodied the film with theseason 11 episode "Poltergasm", in which the Smith house has become haunted byFrancine's unsatisfied sex drive, andRoger plays Ruby Zeldastein, a parody of Tangina.[75]
The 2001comedy horror filmScary Movie 2 parodies the movie's clown doll attack in Robbie's bedroom, as well as Diane's levitation.[76]
Poltergeist was the subject of walk through attractions at bothUniversal Studios Orlando and Hollywood's annualHalloween Horror Nights event.[77]
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