Poltergeist - Demoniache presenze

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Steven Spielberg worked on this film and E.T. - L'extra-terrestre (1982) literally back to back. Pri [...]	D
Marty was originally named Dr. Casey Tak and instead of having a vision of ripping his face off, he [...]	D
Despite being a horror/thriller film, there are no murders or fatalities depicted in the film.	D
Eight very similar movies all came out during the 1982-1983 movie season; all about families battlin [...]	D
This is one of the rare films where Steven Spielberg has a writing credit.	D
The house that gets sucked into a black hole at the end was actually a model about four feet across. [...]	D
The crawling steak was done by using a real steak which was laid over a slot cut between the tiles i [...]	D
The original cast of the film included veteran actor Edward Ashley, who portrayed Dr Lesh's older an [...]	D
On top of the master bedroom television set sits an Atari Video Computer System console with its two [...]	D
A remake of the film was released in 2015 starring Sam Rockwell and directed by Gil Keenan. Steven S [...]	D
(at around 1h 48 mins) From this moment to the end of the movie, no word is spoken.	D
This film and E.T. - L'extra-terrestre (1982) were filmed within 20 minutes of each location.	D
(at around 9 mins) When Diane attempts to flush the dead pet bird it casts a shadow in the shape of [...]	D
(at around 1h 40 mins) The sound effect for the beast that attacks the house at the end of the movie [...]	D
(at around 1h 12 mins) During the conversation in the cemetery, Teague claims that Steve is the resp [...]	D
In a recent interview, Oliver Robins said Steven Spielberg toasted Heather O'Rourke's birthday on th [...]	D
(at around 34 mins) There is a "jump cut" from the scene where Diane is explaining to Steven about t [...]	D
Joe Spano was originally cast as family patriarch Steve Freeling, but he was starring in Hill Street [...]	D
The word "Poltergeist" is spoken three times, and only once by three different characters, Diane, Dr [...]	D
(at around 43 mins) During Steve Freeling's (Craig T. Nelson) interview with Dr. Lesh (Beatrice Stra [...]	D
The "Poltergeist Curse" is an urban legend based around the fact that there have been several unfort [...]	D
Jerry Goldsmith wrote this theme song and the theme song to Il presagio (1976), but whereas The Omen [...]	D
The spirits trying to snatch back Carol Anne and the destruction of the Freeling house takes up the [...]	D
The winding staircase in the middle of the living room is similar to the big portentous winding stai [...]	D
The theme music is known as "Carol Anne's theme". It was originally titled "Bless this House" and wa [...]	D
Poltergeist's special effects and score were both nominated for Oscars but lost to Steven Spielberg' [...]	D
Oliver Robins starred in two movies about a suburban family of five being terrorized by ghosts in 19 [...]	D
(at around 1h 13 mins) Teague reveals to Steve Freeling that the cemetery had moved from Cuesta Verd [...]	D
The house used to film this movie is located in Simi Valley, California where it still stands today. [...]	D
In addition to the two times that the Beast appeared in the movie (the face that appeared in the clo [...]	D
WILHELM SCREAM: (at around 27 mins) When the TV plays Allo sbaraglio (1951) in the kitchen, one of t [...]	D
Robert Broyles' character, credited as "Pool Man #1," is named (and called by Diane), Bluto.	D
When originally released in the UK the film was anticipated as being an 'X' certificate, prohibiting [...]	D
(at around 57 mins) Dr. Lesh talks with Diane and Robbie about a white light that people see when th [...]	D
Steven Spielberg offered Tobe Hooper the script for E.T. - L'extra-terrestre (1982), but when Hooper [...]	D
Heather O'Rourke was chosen for the film when she was eating lunch with her mother and sister at an [...]	D
In Robbie's room there is an Alien (1979) poster on the wall. This is a nod to Jerry Goldsmith, Polt [...]	D
Two of the film's cast members were subsequently murdered: (1) Dominique Dunne (Dana Freeling) was s [...]	D
Novelisation by James Kahn.	D
The most commercially successful film of the Poltergeist trilogy.	D
(at around 1h 44 mins) When Diane goes upstairs trying to save Robbie and Carol Anne, it can be seen [...]	D
The special effects for Poltergeist were produced by Industrial Light and Magic and overseen by Rich [...]	D
Dr. Lesh (Beatrice Straight) makes the point that the paranormal activity at the Freeling home is pr [...]	D
Both of the terrors that plague Robbie came from Steven Spielberg's own fears as a child: a fear of [...]	D
Zelda Rubinstein supposedly had genuine psychic ability, claiming to have visions of things before t [...]	D
(at around 23 mins) When Carol Ann sits in front of the TV in her parents' bedroom, the time on the [...]	D
Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper wanted virtually unknown actors to play the Freelings because they [...]	D
One of the earliest films to deal with EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon).	D
Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on June 4, 1982, Poltergeist was a major critical and commercial suc [...]	D
There was a DirecTV commercial in 2008 that affectionately parodied the film. Craig T. Nelson repris [...]	D
In a 2007 Ain't It Cool News interview, Zelda Rubinstein discussed her recollections of the shooting [...]	D
This film and E.T. - L'extra-terrestre (1982) are famously close to one another, both moves were fil [...]	D
This film was selected by The New York Times as one of The Best 1000 Movies Ever Made.	D
(at around 29 mins) The shot of the chairs that position themselves in the amazing balancing act on [...]	D
Stephen King was briefly approached to write the screenplay. It would have been the first written by [...]	D
Body Count: 1 (Tweety The Bird).	D
Steven Spielberg hired Tobe Hooper after being impressed with his work on Non aprite quella porta (1 [...]	D
The first and only film produced by Steven Spielberg for his Amblin company. Spielberg was an execut [...]	D
Steven Spielberg first approached Universal about distributing the film before he sold the idea to M [...]	D
After telling a reporter that he basically directed the movie himself ("Tobe Hooper isn't a take-cha [...]	D
(at around 1h 41 mins) The terrifying creature that guards the kid's door when Diane tries to save t [...]	D
The word "poltergeist" is German for noisy ghost.	D
JoBeth Williams had a supernatural experience during the making of the film. Whenever she came home [...]	D
Though on-screen credit goes to Tobe Hooper, a wealth of evidence suggests that most of the director [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
The inspiration for the story of the movie written by Steven Spielberg (the part concerning to a sub [...]	D
Heather O'Rourke kept the pet goldfish Carol Anne has in the film.	D
This film came about from Steven Spielberg's failed attempt to do a sequel to Incontri ravvicinati d [...]	D
(at around 1h 35 mins) When Robbie (Oliver Robins) is being strangled, the clown's arms became extre [...]	D
(at around 1h 11 mins) The scene in which Diane opens the bedroom door and is met with a fearsome sc [...]	D
(at around 1h 31 mins) When Diane rescues Carol Anne from the limbo, a white light can be seen brief [...]	D
Diane gives Carol Anne a cigar box to bury her dead bird in, and Carol Anne says the bird does not l [...]	D
(at around 24 mins) The movie's line "They're here!" was voted as the #69 movie quote by the America [...]	D
During all the horrors that proceeded while filming "Poltergeist" (1982), only one scene really scar [...]	D
(at around 1h 29 mins) Steve promises Diane that he won't drop the rope. Two minutes later the appea [...]	D
James Karen at the time was also the commercial spokesman for Pathmark supermarkets. He received hat [...]	D
The televisions featured in the movie are a Sony Trinitron KV-2643R in the living room, a Sony KV-94 [...]	D
The VCR used by the paranormal investigators in the house is a U-matic.	D
The two media scandals that haunt this film are the Poltergeist Curse, concerning the deaths of Heat [...]	D
(at around 7 mins) The Los Angeles Rams vs. Saints football game seen near the beginning of the film [...]	D
(at around 1h 13 mins) The cemetery Steve and Teague are talking in front of has a tree identical to [...]	D
Zelda Rubinstein has said in interviews she didn't like Tobe Hooper because she could see he had a d [...]	D
(at around 54 mins) During the meeting between Dr. Lesh with Marty and Ryan, Ryan theorizes about an [...]	D
Originally, as Tobe Hooper, Steven Spielberg and the screenwriters were plotting out the screenplay, [...]	D
(at around 1h 45 mins) The sign at the Holiday Inn reads, Welcome Dr. Fantasy and Friends. Dr. Fanta [...]	D
(at around 15 mins) When Diane is in the bed with Steve talking about Carol Anne's behavior talking [...]	D
The Freeling car is a 1981 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser.	D
The children's bedroom is littered with Star Wars products. Among them are: A C-3PO light switch pla [...]	D
(at around 1h 32 mins) Tangina claims that the house is at last clean. This proves to be untrue (at [...]	D
When questioned about who had the greater control over this film, Steven Spielberg or Tobe Hooper, S [...]	D
According to William Finley he was originally cast as Marty but replaced before filming.	D
Time magazine and Newsweek tagged the Summer of 1982 as "The Spielberg Summer" because this film and [...]	D
When writers Michael Grais and Mark Victor first met with Steven Spielberg, they were being hired to [...]	D
Zelda Rubinstein auditioned for the part of medium Tangina four times.	D
(at around 1h 30 mins) After Diane rescues Carol Anne from the Afterlife and they fall violently to [...]	D
(at around 1h 16 mins) Tangina said "This House has many hearts." Literally there are heart-shaped i [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American M [...]	D
(at around 1h 40 mins) At a point of the movie, Diane lies in the bed trying to sleep, when a supern [...]	D
(at around 43 mins) When Steve tells the parapsychologists his family members' ages, he says that Da [...]	D
An earlier draft of the film was called "Nighttime" or "It's Nighttime" and had substantial differen [...]	D
Joanna Cassidy, Susan Sarandon and Tuesday Weld were considered for the role of Diane Freeling, but [...]	D
Near the end of the film, just before she is sent rolling up the walls of her bedroom notice the thr [...]	D
Real human skeletons were used in the swimming pool scene, since the crew decided it would be too co [...]	D
In the scene with Robbie looking at the clown doll, a Kenner Darth Vader Star Wars action figure cas [...]	D
Robbie has a poster in his room for Superbowl XXII, which would not take place for another six years [...]	D
In reality, Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams are only fifteen and eleven years older than Dominiq [...]	D
(at around 1h 40 mins) The scene where Diane is attacked in her bedroom by an invisible force was ac [...]	D
(at around 1h 7 mins) After the procession of ghosts that go down the stairs from the Carol Anne's b [...]	D
According with Jerry Goldsmith, he only worked with Steven Spielberg to compose the original soundtr [...]	D
The clown puppet used in the film is on display in Planet Hollywood in Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas.	D
The house built on a sacred burial ground recalls Shining (1980) and Piramide di paura (1985), but i [...]	D
(at around 49 minutes) the television is on channel 12 when Carol Anne begins communicating from the [...]	D
The name of the neighborhood, "Cuesta Verde," is Spanish for "Green Slope."	D
(at around 1h 2 mins) The hands which pull the flesh off the investigator's face in the bathroom mir [...]	D
Oliver Robins is the only surviving child actor of this film that played a member of the Freeling fa [...]	D
In the movie technology is shown as bad, since that TV is used by the ghosts to enter in the living [...]	D
One of the reasons Steven Spielberg spent more time on-set than he should have done as a producer wa [...]	D
The highest grossing horror film of 1982, and the eighth highest grossing film of the year. The film [...]	D
Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996) was a sci-fi horror TV series focusing on the paranormal which came o [...]	D
(at around 1h 34 mins) After Steve, Diane and Tangena rescue Carol Ann from the clutches of the Beas [...]	D
Steven Spielberg's fourth film as a producer. After "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," "Continental Divide," [...]	D
Mr. Teague tells Steve Freeling that Cuesta Verde is an area of 300 acres. It is equivalent to 1,214 [...]	D
Diane tells Carol Anne that if she keeps feeding the goldfish they'll turn into sharks, referencing [...]	D
Shirley MacLaine was offered a starring role in the film, but backed out in order to make Voglia di [...]	D
(at around 1h 42 mins) When Diane falls into the unfinished swimming pool, a lot of skeletons and co [...]	D
Zelda Rubinstein filmed her part in six days.	D
One of the few Steven Spielberg films not to feature music by John Williams.	D
(at around 14 mins) In one scene, Steve and Diane Freeling are in their bedroom and the movie Joe il [...]	D
(at around 1h 2 mins) The scene in which Marty hallucinates in the bathroom was the last to be filme [...]	D
(at around 24 mins) During swimming pool construction works, it can be seen a little excavator remov [...]	D
Dominique Dunne's only appearance in a theatrically-released film, as she was murdered by her ex-boy [...]	D
Skeletons and ancient desecrated burial grounds crop up in other Steven Spielberg productions includ [...]	D
Drew Barrymore was considered for the role of Carol Anne, but producer Steven Spielberg wanted someo [...]	D
The Family Guy episode "Petergeist" parodies this film Stewie even says the iconic line "they're her [...]	D
The Poltergeist series has long been the subject of a legend that holds that there is a "curse" asso [...]	D
Steven Spielberg had Michael Kahn edit this film instead of E.T. - L'extra-terrestre (1982) because [...]	D
Dominique Dunne (Dana Freeling) and Heather O'Rourke (Carol Anne Freeling) are buried in the same ce [...]	D
Lou Perryman is credited as Pugsley but Diane refers to him as Bluto when she catches him drinking h [...]	D
JoBeth Williams was hesitant about shooting the swimming pool scene because of the large amount of e [...]	D
While the theatrical production credits lists Dana Gendian and Jaimi Gendian under "Stunts," the rei [...]	D
The film was originally given an R rating, from the MPAA due to scenes of a child in peril despite l [...]	D

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