POLTERGEIST

The Poltergeist movies are a trilogy of horror films produced in the 1980s. Steven Spielberg co-wrote and co-produced the first Poltergeist, with Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre) as the director. Brian Gibson directed Poltergeist II: The Other Side, while Poltergeist III was directed, co-written, co-produced and storyboarded by Gary Sherman.

Michael Grais and Mark Victor co-wrote the first film with Spielberg, wrote the second film on their own and also co-produced it. Brian Taggert and an uncredited Steve Feke co-wrote the third film.

Spielberg's long-time friends (and then-married couple) Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy co-produced the first film. Freddie Fields and Lynn Arost co-produced the second film, and the third film was co-produced by Barry Bernardi.

The scores of the first two films were composed by Jerry Goldsmith. H.R. Giger did conceptual designs for the second film.

Films
Poltergeist (1982)
In the first and most successful film (released on June 4, 1982), a group of seemingly benign ghosts begin communicating with five-year-old Carol Anne Freeling in her parents' suburban California home via static on the television. Eventually they use the TV as their path into the house itself. They kidnap Carol Anne, and most of the film involves the family's efforts to rescue her. Eventually they do, but then the spirits, led by a demon known only as The Beast, go on a rampage.
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
This sequel exists to explain in much greater detail why Carol Anne was targeted in the first film. As it turns out, the Freelings' house in the first movie was built over a massive underground cavern that was the final resting place of a utopian cult that died there in the early 1800s. This cavern was even below the graveyard that wasn't relocated in the first film. The cult was led by Rev. Henry Kane, who did not have the best intentions. He was power hungry, and anxious to control the souls of his followers in both life and death.
Poltergeist III (1988)
Apparently, between the second and third films, the Freeling family has had quite enough of all supernatural activity, and have decided to cut it off at the source: Carol Anne is now living with her aunt Pat (whom Carol Anne insists on calling Trish, a common nickname for Patricia; this is important later in the film as a way of identifying an impostor Carol Anne) and uncle Bruce Gardner in the John Hancock Center where Bruce also works in downtown Chicago.

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[enigma800]

RIP Heather Michele O'Rourke, we love you always.

[WarOfSalvation]

Honestly, that old man is the scariest horror character to me.

[LightLife4]

There's a few scenes I remember this for 1. the medium who's voice sounds like a little girl, 2. the "they're here", 3. the mirror scene in which one of the characters face falls apart then is back to normal, 4. and the one where the mother's got to go to the 'other side' to rescue her daughter.

[LightLife4]

@Blondiechickie1972 Blimey, how old was she when she died?

[LightLife4]

@WarOfSalvation Not just scary but down right creepy.

[Blondiechickie1972]

24 years ago today the actress who played Carol Anne died :( rest in peace

[VeggieNinjah]

I would have known that girl was special right after birth. Her parents are brunette as shit and she looks like Edgar Winter. After being told it was all her fault about fifty times i would have dropped her like a bad habit at the hospital and had another kid to be completely honest.

[TheGodParticle]

I hate to say this but that old man looks like my grandad.

[Blondiechickie1972]

@WarOfSalvation omg he is the scariest horror character! EEEK 1:39

[Omniverse77]

jeez, he just wanted to play a little call of duty..

[biggmorris]

wow i wanna watch it now



[Pugslee3]

@enigma800 Its ironic how she became a poltergeist after completing the poltergeist series!