tadpole-596-918256 Review of The Making of 'Poltergeist'

The Making of 'Poltergeist' (1982 TV Short)

If a Horde of Mohicans invaded Estonia . . .

[6/10 · 29 January 2019]

. . . and covered all of that enclave's graveyards with tracts of chalets to see who could evoke the bluest-eyed ghost, it would probably mean The Last of the Mohicans, because they'd be stoned by outraged indigenous Estonians. However, the mirror image of such a Racist Incursion forms the plot of POLTERGEIST. "Freeling" is the Anglicized version of Estonia's most common surname, "FRHLYYYG" (which is more common over there than "Smith" or "Jones" are here). But THE MAKING OF POLTERGEIST says nary a word about the Freeling Family wishing to get their jollies by free-loading on Mohican Spirits. (It adds in salt to injury, of course, by stuffing the corpses within this Native American Burial Ground into Western-Style boxes, and desecrating these stalwart skeletons with the remnants of European tailoring and pearl necklaces!) These slights to the First Peoples no doubt unleashed "The Curse of Poltergeist," which has seen virtually the entire cast and crew of this culturally tone deaf flick pass away career wise--or just die, in the literal sense. Just as the Growling Big Cat film studio behind POLTERGEIST commissioned that Mount Rushmore guy to convert Georgia's Stone Mountain Park into a movie poster-like PR stunt featuring cameo carvings of traitors "J. Davis, R. Butler, & Bob Lee" in the butte to promote GWTW 40 years earlier, this "Making of" shows "Uncas'" grave being turned into a cesspool. All involved with POLTERGEIST should have self-deported back to Estonia, where they belonged!