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Poltergeist - Patreon Version (Patreon)

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No Sync Required Version: https://cinebingers.ca/rCXIdu81S2 - For Patreon tier "Bingers on The Wall" or higher.

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JayF

This house is cleeah. (which is something that Ace Ventura references in the first movie btw)

David Martin

Way back in the stone age (before cable TV), broadcast TV used to go off the air at 1:00 or 2:00 am, and they always played the U.S. nation anthem as a sign off. Mystery solved.

Amos T Fairchild

Tobe Hooper of Lifeforce fame... lol. Now that is an interesting watch...

JediLounger

In addition to the other two movies you are going to watch before Scream, please watch Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994). You don’t need to watch 2-6 of the Elm Street movies (would be cool if you did, but you don’t have to). New Nightmare skips Elm Street 2-6 and is a direct sequel to the first movie. All you need to know is who survived the first movie, and who Freddy is. The ideas that Wes Craven continues to develop in Scream 1 through 4 started in New Nightmare. I have avoided saying the main reason why you guys should watch it, spoilers, but I will say that Simone has specifically asked for movies like New Nightmare in another reaction. You guys will love it, I promise you. Please watch it. Edit: Also, Lifeforce (1985). That movie is buck wild. Also directed by Tobe Hooper. George in particular would enjoy the first 40 minutes lol. Would be hell to edit for YouTube.

Patrick

I disagree with George about the Polish National Anthem being the best, it's clearly Kazakstan.. "Kazakstan is the greeeat..est .country in the world. Every oooooother country, is run by little girls...Kazakstan is the greaaaat...est, exporter of potassium. Every oooooother country, has inferior potassium."

Astraeos

Simone you really, seriously just need to strap George down and make him watch Star Trek. I mean it'd be awesome if you could do some of it on the Channel, but yeah. George NEEDS to see Star Trek. He's a Sci-Fi fan who hasn't seen ANY. That's heresy.

JayF
>>119274571

I've already suggested they ask for suggestions for ST:TOS episodes, do a few of those for a TV reaction, then move on to the movies. I suggested they react to 2, 3, 4, 6, and then move into the TNG movies.

DeAndrew Greene

You guys don't remember from Nightmare on Elm Street but back in the day they used to play the National Anthem late at night before everything went off and there was only static on the TV.

Lannisen

This film was a huge part of my childhood. It was pretty much released as a family adventure film, and I don't even remember how old I was when I first saw it but probably around 5-6. The only scene my mom stopped me from seeing was the melting face in the bathroom mirror.

Lannisen

"All the dead bodies looked so real!" Weeeeeeell, about that.... in those days real skeletons were cheaper to rent than making fake ones. They are real.

Lola Lirola

It's so interesting, I never watched this in my childhood (because I'm a scaredy cat), and only got to it a couple of years ago, and the metaphors jumped at me so freaking clearly it was impossible to get scared. This is very much American horror in a nutshell, isn't it? So it's not that weird that it opens with the national anthem. And then there's all those shots of peaceful, white, affluent suburbia before we reveal the rotten core underneath all of it. It's also very much a "sins of the father" movie: coming down from the 60s optimism, we find parents who neglect their kids pets, are too busy having sex, and smoking pot, and watching the game... while their kids are raised by the television. And, beneath all those 'modern' dangers, it's the Original Sin of America: all those dead Native people they built on top of and pretended never existed. It all inevitably comes bubbling up... What is impressive to me is how relevant it still is (substitute tv for computer, and you have a perfect update), and how incredibly well done it is: the rhythm, the intensity, the jump scares, even the effects, it all still holds up!

David Martin

There's a documentary series on ILM called Light & Magic, and they show how they did many of the effects, especially the house collapsing. Wonderful series.

Ricardo Alanis

This is one of my favorites but also scared me as a kid. Others may also comment on this but they used real skeletons because it was cheaper than making fake ones. There are sequels but the actor that played Carol Ann got sick and died before Poltergeist III was released.

Monica Alarcon

No George, the Simpsons got their inspiration from the Twilight Zone episode "Little Girl Lost" Wich came before this movie... (Haven't watched the reaction yet but I'm predicting he asks this... Let's see if I'm right)

MacGuffinStuff

Glad you guys liked this one, it's one of my favorites, especially around Halloween. There are at least two sequels btw, and I won't lie, although I do like the second movie I won't say it's as good, you get a couple new and really interesting characters though. The third movie I could do without. Also, this movie franchise is infamously considered cursed, because so many of the actors in them died soon after working on them, some very young. There was an urban myth about the skeletons in the pool being actual human skeletons, but guess what, it's true, they were. They interviewed the effects guy and he confirmed, they were actual skeletons, which was apparently common practice because it's just plain cheaper and way less time consuming to just buy them at medical supply places. Speaking of medical supply places, the actor who plays Steven's boss is in another Halloween classic, Return of the Living Dead, which starts off in a medical supply warehouse. That movie is a very different vibe, it's basically a party, campy fun with great practical effects, another I watch every year. Love October, my excuse to watch horror movies every day, all month. Oh yeah, right before they introduce the paranormal investigators in this movie, they show a college campus, that's my alma mater, UC Irvine, the building they show is the library.

Cincassette

I'm really looking forward to "Halloween" and "Scream"!! And I'll even consider giving "Friday the 13th" another chance.

Middy
>>119272723

Noooo, don't put Scream off any longer. It spoils absolutely nothing about New Nightmare whatsoever.

REDR58

Craig T. Nelson also appears in “The Devil’s Advocate,” and excellent thriller/semi horror film from 1997 with Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron. Add it to the list!

Dioskur
>>119276100

It was for me and my friends as well. Nightmare on Elm Street, Poltergeist and Evil Dead were THE horror movies (born 1980)

David Crabtree

Based on the characters' ages, Diane was only 16 when she had her oldest daughter Dana.

Dioskur

About the cemetery question: After a while, depending on local rules, the grave is dug up and the few remaining parts are burned. Here in Germany the standard time is 50 years. If you want to increase the time someone has to pay for it and take care of it.

Odd Thomas

So... Simone's new favourite film?

john blake

George’s “medium, no she’s a small” joke was so funny I had to pause the movie! Bravo I say!

Odd Thomas

The only ones you need to watch before Scream are Halloween, Friday the 13th and Psycho (the latter you probably know anyway from The Simpsons but hey ho)

TGrimace

Yes. Back in the day, tv channels stopped broadcasting late at night. 2am or so. 24 hour television wasn't a thing yet. Ha. It was closer to having business hours. There were only 3 or 4 channels, and they came on around 6am and off around 2am. It was pretty common practice for the station to play the star spangled banner right before they stopped broadcasting. Many a time in the 80s, I would fall asleep in front of my tv only to be woken up by the static on tv.

iOmegaTron

Simone: "She's a medium" George: "She's definitely a small" Omfg that was absolute gold! 🤣🤣🤣

Opti_Frog
>>119272389

Why? Why would you say that whey you could say Texas Chain Saw Massacre? 😄

djKENTO

The National Anthem used to play on American broadcast TV stations when the channel ended their broadcasting. Before infomercials ran all night.

WastedPo

One of the interesting bits of lore about this movie is that since the day it was released, there has been rumors that Spielberg did a lot of backseat directing, to the point where it was thought that Tobe Hooper was really just a hired gun. (I think I read that at the time, there was a rule in the director's guild that a director could only have one movie to their name in a given year. And Spielberg had just done E.T. which met his quota.) To be honest, I kind of believe the stories. If you look at the beautiful framing of some of the scenes, it's just so good, and really does remind me of E.T. (In Poltergeist, check out the scene when they're upstairs and the psychic medium is asking Craig T. Nelson to threaten Carol Ann with punishment. It's all just one long take, but the camera moves throughout, framing the characters differently at various moments.)

Joe

Please, PLEASE, watch It Chapter 2. It's been so long.

Middy

I must have seen this film a dozen times and I still get surprised at how quickly things escalate. Looking back, you can see why it does. Robbie climbs the tree, sure, but it's also the same day they start digging into the ground to make the pool. The stuff with the nice suburban neighbourhood was absolutely intentional. This was one of the first movies to bring ghosts out of traditional haunted houses and into the everyday lives of regular people. It's commonplace now, but it freaked people out in 1982 with the idea that it could happen anywhere, to anyone. Also, George, I was watching to see if you'd notice the awkward cut at the 34:14 mark. It's gotta be one of the worst in Hollywood history. Apparently it was a last minute emergency edit to remove a line where Steve says "I hate Pizza Hut". It seems to have Mandela Effected a lot of people, if you look around online you'll find a bunch of them swearing they've seen it, while others claim it was never included on any version.

Odd Thomas

Robbie gets taken by the tree to distract the family so the spirits can take Carol-Anne. Back before the days of infinite content, there was literally only a few shows on a few channels each day, so the national anthem thing was just a 'we're signing off, goodnight' thing. The movie still holds up because you genuinely care about the characters, so their peril is so much more engaging. Too many movies in general just go for scares or cool effects but without the human connection it just doesn't matter. Poltergeist is scary but also emotional; every time they rescue Carol-Anne I tear up - no easy feat for a film I've seen dozens of times over the years. There are two sequels. The first has no Spielberg and no Hooper and is the laziest cash grab. The third film has some really cool camera tricks and I feel is very underrated. Not as good as the original, but far better than 2. There was a remake about ten years ago which is just awful. I love Sam Rockwell but he was totally miscast as the dad in that. It's one of the most cursed franchises in cinema history; the teenage daughter in 1, Dominique Dunne, was murdered, a character from 2 died too, and the actress who played Carol-Anne died during the third film. Understandably, after 3 they decided to stop there.

Odd Thomas

Those were real skeletons. No joke.

Monica Alarcon

I love this movie so much I'm gonna have to watch it again... I watched it earlier at work but with freaking people expecting medical care and stuff I had to pause it several times so, here we go again!

Monica Alarcon

I am so glad this movie won on a technicality, so to speak. I've seen hundreds if not thousands of horror movies and this one is definetly my favorite. I must have been 6 or 7 when I watched it first and it messed me up, specially the clown. It has minimal blood (probably just the son after the tree tried to save him) no gore (oh wait, there's the guy with the face in the mirror... ) and no deaths! But it's my favorite because it does something a lot of horror movies forget, It makes you care about the people in it... A lot of horror movies just have stupid teens that make you WANT to see them killed ASAP... so glad you enjoyed it...

Jonah

Makes sense, scream is too meta for it's own good. lol

George, If you were with me, you wouldn't be here in this strip club shaking it for dollar bills!

🖤I'm picturing an alternate universe where Scary Movie got put on the poll and won instead of Scream. As you mentioned, with Scream you were informed it will spoil some movies you haven't seen so you've decided to watch those first before watching Scream. But in this alternate universe where Scary Movie won people would be like "Scary Movie will spoil Scream, you should really watch that first." Then you two, "OK, we'll watch Scream first and then Scary Movie sometime after." Then more Patrons be like, "Yeah about that... So Scream spoils X and Y, you should probably watch those first.." George and Simone, "It never F***ing ends, F YOU Scream!!!" XD.

Middy
>>119304801

One of the horror channels on YouTube did a count of references in the Scream franchise and it's like 40-60 movies referenced in each one, so if we want to be reaaaally thorough about it...

FranciscoGios

I just finished watching Evil Dead 2 and came here afterwards, and I noticed that Ash and the Mom both had a piece of grey hair(Rouge 😍) after traveling thru the void. George Lucas did let Steven Spielberg use his ILM team to build the rotating house. The ILM is the same team that build the Millennium Falcon, Star Destroyer etc etc. this Zowlve is signing off until the next movie reaction

Mr.Redmage

"those skeletons looked so real" ohhh boy do I have a fact for you lol. They used real skeletons in the movie, I guess it was pretty common back then because it was cheaper

Logan Kerlee

GEORGE!! Romulan.. come on, man! xD hahahahaha

Crunkljack Galore

Hallway shot: In camera effect. I believe is called a dolly zoom. where you start with the lens zoomed all the way in and as you dolly the camera you zoom out. I happened upon this effect in film school when I had a super 8 film camera, in a car, zoomed in and as we drove near the subject I zoomed out. I didn't know about the effect but totally played it off like I knew what I was doing for the critique in class.

Crunkljack Galore
>>119311285

BTW never really did anything with my degree in filmmaking. Except a few really awful low budget films around Pittsburgh. But Dave Filoni was in my animation class at Edinboro.

Crunkljack Galore
>>119305998

Yeah every time I see Jo Beth Williams in that water, and she's screaming, mouth open and that water is getting in her mouth....

djKENTO

The Amityville Horror novel from the 1970s was the first use of the Indian Burial Ground Trope in pop culture. Would also be a very good film to react to.

Choi_Yujin_Stan_Account

maybe someone already said...but as an Old head... back in those days...when a TV channel went off the air..they always played the National Anthem..and then the snow would appear until it came back on air in the morning

Logan Kerlee

I've never watched this before - damn, it's impressive! I have no idea why they don't make horror films like this anymore. The entire movie wasn't scary - but there were definitely parts that were terrifying! Totally agreed with you both - each of the characters were quality. All of them added something to movie, none were there just for some cheap play or fill in. No, all of them were important. That scene with the mom!Whoa.. obviously done with camera tricks and all that but it looked SO GREAT!! THIS MOVIE WAS MADE 6 YEARS BEFORE I WAS BORN, THAT'S NOT ALLOWED!! xD Especially with horror films. xD Spielberg did an AMAZING job with this film! I'm so thoroughly impressed by this movie! Those corpses at the end were pretty gnarly looking! xD I love you both! hahahaha, you made me laugh so hard at the end with the "Kill you, I will! hahaha" :D

Logan Kerlee
>>119272152

This was my first time watching this and I CRACKED UP laughing right after she said that. xD

Victoria Davis

12 year old me had nightmares from that face melting scene

ScotchBeard78

I loved watching this reaction! Poltergeist has always been one of my all time Top 10 movies ever, I've seen it countless times, and there's always some new little detail to find. I saw it once in a small high-end theater and the soundscape of the movie was mind-blowing, the sound of Carol Anne running around the house was completely 3D. If you ever get the chance to see a big-screen showing of it, go and see it. Happy Pre-Halloween!

Nikolai Brubach

I love them showing 2 loving hard working parents who just happen to smoke weed when the kinds go to sleep. Nothings made of it, it's just there. I also don't know if they didn't do the math or whatever, but they say she's 32 and the kid is 16 making the mom 16 when she had her.

Alex Ch

I definitely had those Star Wars sheets as a small child in 1982.

Jesse Ewiak

I think the best joke in the movie, is when the Mom mentions the Holiday Inn they're going to, the daughter says something about remembering that hotel, and the Mom goes what basically, and the girl changes the convo to her grey hair.

Purple Dragon Knight

Back in the olden days, before cable tv, there was just tv. 3 stations. They went off the air late at night. They ended the broadcast day by playing the national anthem and then they went off the air. Hours of static. And, yes, went it came on we all thought "They're Here!"

Kinokind

I like this movie and was lucky to see it in the theater. It was impressive! But first. . . the whole concept is silly! I'm sorry, but even if you could take over a graveyard and build a subdivision without anyone noticing that you weren't moving hundreds of coffins, how and why would you do it? Subdivisions require plumbing and gas lines and sewers, and buried electrical service and sometimes houses have basements and swimming pools. Graves are only 6' deep. It's not possible. And the parapsychology lore is mostly made up. There are no ghost stories or poltergeist accounts ("Poltergeist" is German for "playful ghost" and refers to incidents of things moving about of their own volition, not big pulsing tentacled hell closets or child-eating trees, etc). But I still enjoy it. My two favorite scenes are the stacking chairs (they were glued together and stage hands quickly replaced the original chairs with the stacked ones while the camera was pointing away - no edits. That's the scariest thing in the movie. My other favorite is at the end when he grabs his boss (the great James Karen - see him in "Return of the Living Dead") and yells at him about not moving the bodies. Oh, and during the next shot note the hickey on the teenage daughter's neck.

Kinokind

Oh, somehow George missed that this director had earlier directed a little film called "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". But there is famously gossip about how much Spielberg may have tinkered with this film, even though he always claimed Hooper directed it. Accounts differ. The suburban life is as Spielberg as in "ET", but coffins popping out of the ground? I don't know. Also check out the 1979 TV mini-series "Salem's Lot", also directed by Hooper. It traumatized a generation of kids who saw it.

HeartlessTom

This movie is PEAK Spielberg, and it's all about well written, reasonable, good natured and brave protagonists. The special and practical effects merge into this timeless spectacle that helps you immerse in the story, but waht make his classic movies so engrossing is how shamelessly heartfelt they are and PERFECLY interspersed with camp and humor.

Gary Fixler

People have always fallen asleep in front of the TV and woken up much later, but in the 80s, after you'd seen this film, waking up to static in a dark living room could be extra spooky.

Gary Fixler
>>119318512

I saw it as a little boy, and I remembered I needed dad to stay with me so I could fall asleep (plus nightlights, stuffed animals, a couple of shots of hard liquor...), and I remembered a bunch of moments, but that face scene flooded back in today. I had clearly blocked it all these decades. No wonder I couldn't sleep for several nights.

Gary Fixler
>>119325069

Good point about the service lines and swimming pools, but I did notice from the hilltop view that all of them were poured slabs, no basements, so at least they thought that much through. I grew up on the east coast (NJ), where every house everywhere had a basement, often the size of the house. Maybe it was different in CA in the 80s. I also lived in FL for about a decade, and no one had a basement there, because the whole state is a marsh, and it pours rain like crazy all the time.

Jacob King

I’d never seen this one. Super enjoyable. You might want to add the 1989 Pet Sematary to your list based on comments made during the reaction. Peter Jackson was clearly inspired by this when he made The Frighteners.

Jacob King
>>119320726

Hey, mom was 31 or 32 and the daughter was 16, she was in no position to judge.

PickettsChargingPort

"...looks more like a small." George, that was a crappy, and extremely funny, thing to say.

William Burnham

Film on TV, with Spencer Tracey- A Guy Named Joe Remade as Always with Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman and Audrey Hepburn (her last film) Well worth watching 😊😊😊

REDR58

Nevermind “The Mist,” the approaching cloud front in the movie looks very much like a scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Joh

When are you gonna watch scream, can you just answer the question please? Thanks love y'all

IncredibleBulk

i don't want to give anything away, but i hope we see the 2nd and 3rd film. especially the third. i remember it being my favourite, but also will link back to one of the comments made in this review

Jonah

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm not old enough to know from experience, but I'm pretty sure at the end of each broadcast, back before there was just 24 hours of tv broadcasting filling the dead air between shows and the news, they would close off the broadcast at like midnight with the national anthem and the picture of the statue of liberty or some sort of patriotic symbol. I believe they used to do it on the radio here too. Last song before the radio station shut down for the night would be the national anthem. Could be mistaken though.

Starman Deluxe

I'm sure somebody else has already commented but if not, the bodies in the pool were real bodies and no one told the actress.

Noe Ramirez

You guys should totally do The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Directed by the same dude and is a movie that genuinely disturbs me. Really good horror film.

Vwlss Nvwls

I saw this in the theater with my family when I was 13. I loved it, despite how much it freaked me out. I especially love the ending, when he pushes the t.v. out of the motel room. It was a great way to break the tension the movie built up.

Vwlss Nvwls

Television stations in the USA used to sign off with the national anthem and images, usually local images, but also national images. That is what you were seeing at the start of the movie.

Vwlss Nvwls

They mentioned that Carol Ann was born in the house in the scene when they reveal that the houses were built where a graveyard used to be. So I think the idea is supposed to be that is the reason the spirits were attracted to her, and no other house.

Brendan Rafferty

Didn’t SCREAM win this poll? 🤷🏻‍♂️

James Hadden
>>119826194

They have been talked out of watching Scream until they have seen other horror movies first, I think specifically Friday The 13th. It’s a shame we now have to wait, but it is what it is

Jay
>>119826194

Just Friday and Halloween, I hope anyway. I do get the feeling we're going to waiting a while for Scream. George said "by the end of the year", so they're not in a hurry:(

Seth

I'm pretty sure the Super Bowl Poster was a gag gift given to kids. The idea is that the kid (in this case Robbie) was given the poster because (so the gag goes) he WOULD be playing in the Super Bowl several years in the future. Sort of like when a Canadian parent dresses his or her son in a onesie that reads "Future Hart Memorial Trophy Winner." The actor who played Robbie was born in 1971 and so the character of Robbie had absolutely no chance of playing in the Super Bowl. I think the youngest players in NFL history were around 19 (and keep in mind that the Super Bowl is at the end of the season). BUT, wanna hear something creepy? (I know you do, but I wanted to ask to make sure I heightened the creepy factor.) On January 31, 1988, Heather O'Rourke (Carol Anne) started feeling flu-like symptoms at her home in Lakeside, CA (in San Diego County and about 25 miles Northeast of San Diego itself). The next morning, February 1, 1988, she collapsed and was rushed to a nearby hospital in El Cajon, CA. On the way, her heart stopped, but she was resuscitated. When her situation deteriorated, she was medevaced to the Children's Hospital of San Diego where it was discovered that her blood was full of bacterial toxins which were caused by a bowel obstruction which, in turn, was caused by some sort of congenital anomaly. Doctors performed surgery, but she died at 12:45. So, she started feeling ill on January 31, 1988 in a suburb of San Diego and died the next day. Do you want to know what else happened on January 31, 1988 in San Diego? Super Bowl XXII, the very Super Bowl on the poster.

Chase Schleich
>>119449183

Yep. They just didn't air content in the early morning hours. Not sure if the rise of cable TV changed that or what. Most cable channels did air content 24/7 and cable TV really started growing in popularity around the mid-late 80's and that's also when broadcast started 24 hour programming.

Scott Gibbs

One of my all time favorite movies. I'm so glad you guys loved it too.

ExtraBigAssTaco
>>119467959

To clarify, until around the mid 1980s, a real human skeleton was much much cheaper than the artificial bones that were available at the time. Yes, even importing them from overseas, most of the bones came from India, they were the standard economical option for prop skeletons, or even the ones you saw in classrooms.