SCARETOBER 2020: Poltergeist (1982)
“They’re heeeeeeeere…”
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CONTENT WARNING: Death, haunting, paranormal occurrences, body horror, grave desecration, kidnapping, suggested sexual assault, clowns, skeletons, dead bodies.
We’re back from our hiatus and we’re ready to get scary and spooky for Scaretober 2020! This week, we’re kicking things off with a horror film that kinda traumatized children, since it gave Steven Spielberg a one-two “family-friendly” punch at the box office. His credited directing role in E.T. is the stuff of legend, a timeless and timely classic about a wrinkly alien and some very 80’s latchkey kids. He doesn’t receive the same credit for this film, and that’s supposed to be by design, since he hired the man who made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to go ahead and direct this script for him…or did he? Controversy aside, this is one of the spookiest and fun haunting movies ever made, and will thrill you while having you asking how did this get a ‘PG’ rating??? Forget It, we’re watching the real movie that made kids afraid of clowns - we’re talking about 1982’s Poltergeist on Macintosh & Maud Haven’t Seen What?!
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Intro and outro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from “Carol Ann’s Theme” from the film Poltergeist, composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith. Copyright 1982 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co.
Clips taken from the film Poltergeist are © 1982 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
