The week before E.T came out, a little film called Poltergeist was released. Well, the commercials seemed tame enough, the PG rating meant it couldn't be too scary. And especially after seeing E.T on June 11, there was no way that Poltergeist could be anything more than family friendly fun.
You see Spielberg was the director of E.T but produced this flick and a lot of people took their kids to see Poltergeist not knowing that it would be...well, what it is.
And what is it? It's well-directed, well-shot, and really creepy. It's not a horror movie in the sense of a single entity presiding over the scares. It's not that gory either. It's actually pretty tame considering the time period (the slasher flick genre was picking up steam).
That said, the movie is really freaky and maintains the weird from beginning to end. It has a few bumps here and there (the psychics slowed the movie down immensely) but you get a ton of pay off. The effects, for the time, were amazing and many of them are still really good even by today's standards. The story itself is cliché but done so well you won't care.
This will scare the crap out of your kids. I wouldn't suggest you show it to them. But it's a truly fantastic piece of cinema and one of my favorite horror films of all time.
You see Spielberg was the director of E.T but produced this flick and a lot of people took their kids to see Poltergeist not knowing that it would be...well, what it is.
And what is it? It's well-directed, well-shot, and really creepy. It's not a horror movie in the sense of a single entity presiding over the scares. It's not that gory either. It's actually pretty tame considering the time period (the slasher flick genre was picking up steam).
That said, the movie is really freaky and maintains the weird from beginning to end. It has a few bumps here and there (the psychics slowed the movie down immensely) but you get a ton of pay off. The effects, for the time, were amazing and many of them are still really good even by today's standards. The story itself is cliché but done so well you won't care.
This will scare the crap out of your kids. I wouldn't suggest you show it to them. But it's a truly fantastic piece of cinema and one of my favorite horror films of all time.