Has anybody seen Poltergeist 2?

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.

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...

(I sort of remember liking the second Exorcist. Though not holding the first sacred probably helps.)

-- 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.

the second one wasn't half as bad as the third one, mainly because Kane was just so great.

Zelda, no, not yet!

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.

also would like to defend part 3, it is entertaining although also dire. so watchable.

xp truth

yes but what about tequila worm?

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.

http://i.imgur.com/IzKZmZX.gif

Killer braces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng5gx6fLg2o

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."

Damn, this reboot's going to make me appreciate Poltergeist 2, isn't it.

But yes, Jobeth Williams' performance has real force and heart.

Yes, one of the great performances in '80s American movies for sure.