Poltergeist (Blu-ray Book) [Blu-ray] From:JoBeth Williams , Heather O'Rourke , Craig T. Nelson , Beatrice Straight , Dominique Dunne , Tobe Hooper , Warner Home Video ,
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: Blu-ray
EAN: 0012569798496
Format: AC-3
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: Dubbed
Format: Original recording remastered
Format: Restored
Format: Subtitled
Format: Widescreen
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 50 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 700 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 45 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 560 hundredths-inches
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-10-14
Running Time: 114 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1982
Product Description:
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
Customer Reviews:
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Poltergeist Bluy-Ray, 2008-10-18
I loved this movie as a child and still do,the blue-ray looks and sounds much better than the dvd,but again not nearly enough extras on this blue-ray,could have been so much better,this classic movie deserved that treatment.
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