― Party_Pants, Friday, 25 June 2004 05:38 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 25 June 2004 05:39 (twenty years ago) link
― spittle (spittle), Friday, 25 June 2004 05:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 25 June 2004 05:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Huk-L, Friday, 25 June 2004 06:29 (twenty years ago) link
But the ghosts are from some pioneer religous cult, aren't they? I remember a preacher. It is a shitty movie, for sure. But Craig T. Nelson had the glories of "Coach" just around the corner.
― spittle (spittle), Friday, 25 June 2004 06:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Huk-L, Friday, 25 June 2004 06:35 (twenty years ago) link
massive hipster props for featuring Julian Beck of the Living Theater as the scary guy...
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG01/mincks/brief.html#Life,%20Revolution
and he was pretty damn creepy in that movie...
and he died during it's filming...
now start Poltergeist curse discussion...
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 25 June 2004 06:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Huk-L, Friday, 25 June 2004 06:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 25 June 2004 06:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 25 June 2004 09:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 2 May 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Aaron A., Monday, 2 May 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― darn it luther (slutsky), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:02 (nineteen years ago) link
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― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:23 (nineteen years ago) link
(I sort of remember liking the second Exorcist. Though not holding the first sacred probably helps.)
― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link
-- kingfish maximum overdrunk (jdsalmo...), May 3rd, 2005.
i love how in Highlander 2, after the end of the first movie where christopher lambert is the last immortal left and has supposedly become human again, suddenly we're whisked away and it's "meanwhile on the highlander's home planet...", without any warning or inkling in the previous movie that the immortals are from outer space..
plus, this movie has some of the most glaring FX errors i've seen in a theatrically released film. in the big battle sequence on the highlander planet, right when this one guy is supposedly being hurled into the air by an explosion, you can see the tip of a launch ramp propelling the stuntman at the bottom of the screen.
― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link
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― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link
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― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eric von H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 15 January 2007 03:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 January 2007 03:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 15 January 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link
the second one wasn't half as bad as the third one, mainly because Kane was just so great.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 15 January 2007 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Zelda, no, not yet!
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 January 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
saw this (or rather the first poltergeist) again last night, probably first time i'd watched it since the 80s. holds up remarkably. somehow more spielberg touch than i assumed going in (and i assumed alot) but it works even though you'd think it would work against it, the wonder and curiosity that are there are great and make the terror more real when it comes and the spielberg humor works fantastically here. jobeth williams and craig t nelson are fantastic in this, really one of the better, more recognizable portrayals of a marriage i can think of, the kids are great too, for some reason i had this memory or assumption that carol ann would be too cute in that movie kid way but she's a normal kid weird in the normal way all kids are not esp precocious or wise or whatever. i love that by the time dad gets home she's already bored w/ the ghost moving the chair and immediately goes to dad whining that mom didn't make dinner. another odd thing about this is that nobody actually dies in this movie. i'm not sure how many other great horror movies you can say that about (i mean even scatman buys it in the shining). it feels a weird counterpoint to the shining also, both haunted house movies that are actually about family.
― balls, Monday, 26 May 2014 02:22 (ten years ago) link
also would like to defend part 3, it is entertaining although also dire. so watchable.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 26 May 2014 02:55 (ten years ago) link
xp truth
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Monday, 26 May 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
yes but what about tequila worm?
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Monday, 26 May 2014 03:50 (ten years ago) link
Saw an archival print of Poltergeist tonight -- a true flipside of E.T., it's true. The second climax is annoying structurally, but I like it bcz it reveals that the Zelda Rubinstein paranormal fixer is A TOTAL INCOMPETENT!
(Does all that "Go toward/go away from the light" shit make any sense either? She just seemed to be fucking with the Freelings.)
But yes, Jobeth Williams' performance has real force and heart.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 November 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/IzKZmZX.gif
― pplains, Saturday, 1 November 2014 04:27 (nine years ago) link
Killer braces:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng5gx6fLg2o
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Saturday, 1 November 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/02/04/poltergeist-sneak-peek-horror-reboot/22774531/
"Guys I don't really feel like audiences of the original understood the whole 'TV people' thing, can we have hands on the other side of the screen to really bring it home? We can? Awesomesauce."
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
Damn, this reboot's going to make me appreciate Poltergeist 2, isn't it.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 4 February 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
Yes, one of the great performances in '80s American movies for sure.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Monday, 28 September 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link