Poltergeist - The Scarier Side Of Amblin (80's Horror Memories Ep 15)
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In the early 80s, Steven Spielberg's Amblin was a hopeful company producing films that were high quality with excellent writing and directing. On June 4, 1982, they released Poltergeist, a family-centric horror film that would define many horror fans and a bit of the horror genre. The film is still beloved, having the advantage of being a gateway horror for children watching with their parents. Were these particularly scary? Let’s find out in today’s episode of 80s Horror Memories.
Written By: Emilie Black
Narrated By: Tyler Nichols
Edited By: Mike Conway
Produced by: Berge Garabedian, John Fallon
Co Produced: Mike Conway
Executive Produced by: Berge Garabedian
Score By: Shawn Knippelberg
Special Guests: Patrick Lussier (Play Dead)
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I see both Poltergeist and The Gate as good examples for gateway horror flicks for families.
I can remember watching Poltergeist when I was 3 years old. I was terrified of the clown and skeletons and closet monster mouth. I loved it! It's my favorite film! IMHO a perfect movie!
1982 was a great year for films. Miss those days. We need more story driven films and less spectacle driven films.
Couldn't agree more, @seanfahey3600!!!!
I was lucky enough to be 12 in 1982. Saw POLTERGEIST twice in theaters. It was the first horror film I saw in theaters...what an amazing experience!!
Yes..
Blade Runner,E.T.TheThing,First Blood,Conan,Gandhi,Sophie's Choice,Tron,48 Hours,Rocky III etc...
Amityville 2 was not mentioned :(
I remember watching ET in the theater, but nowadays, as mentioned, I don't watch because it's child-centered and that part of me's gone. But, Poltiergest gets a watch once a year pretty much. Can't wait for 1984!!!
"Poltergeist" is the "haunted house" movie for the eighties. I completely agree with the idea this is a good place to start for blossoming horror fans (a guy peels his face off in the sink and this movie is rated PG - Wow!). In our home, there were three of us who all shared one room growing up. My sister, as a toddler, had a similar looking clown to the one in the movie (it had orange coloring instead of blue). After we watched "Poltergeist," my brother and I refused to go in our room until that clown was removed. Great video guys. Can't wait until next week's entry! Cheers!
For me, still one of the scariest horror films of all time, & definitely still the No. 1 haunted house flick!! My mom introduced me to this film, & let's just say, for many years after wards, leading into my adult years, i was scarred by this flick, & finally was able to overcome my fear of it, when i was in my mid to late '20s! Lol!! Now, i hope to one day be able to make my own, CGI free, haunted house horror flick, sometime in the future. Particularly since my mom's side of the family had been victims of a real life haunting, is one of the reasons, why Poltergeist scarred me so bad. At family get togethers, as a kid, i always had to hear pretty terrifying accounts from my mom, aunts & uncles, & grandparents, of what they all claimed to have witnessed, in the very house, that we would be meeting up in!
Great video! Loving the series! "Poltergeist" is total perfection. It's very sad about what happened to Dominique Dunn and her murderer was able to be released from prison, change his name, and have a life for himself! He should be rotting in prison for the rest of his miserable life!
he should have got the chair
@@thedys70 Exactly!
Oh believe me. He's getting his if he hasn't already. What goes around comes around
@@kendallrivers1119 JUSTICE! PLEASE! R.I.P. Dominique!
I love the story of the mother telling Steven Spielberg that she was worried that the set lights will fall in the pool with her in it. He assured her that he'll go in the water himself so that the crew won't let that happen.
My daughter loves horror movies just like me. I started her with Monster House. I remember she was a little afraid of it, but couldn't stop watching it. She was a little girl at the time, but that movie made her love horror just like Poltergeist did for me when I was little
That's awesome, monster house is such a great film! I would so love to see a spinoff with the pizza delivery guy that knows all about monsters lol
Love this one along with 2&3 another movie series I saw on TV on good old upn 😂
The Original 1982 Poltergeist is still far superior, Scarier and way better than the 2015 remake!! ✌️💞
Zelda Rubinstein was such a fascinating person. Her performance was really powerful too. The first time I saw Poltergeist I expected the credits to roll right after she said "This house is clean."
Poltergeist has been one of my favorite horror movies ever since I was a kid and it first aired on ABC. This is one horror movie where you felt like you were watching a real family with the dynamics going on between all of the cast members.
A story about the nuclear family being destroyed through the television.
Pretty much. Good call.
Classic Tobe Hooper
And it happened.
Nuclear family isn’t the only type of family
@@ramon6567 gay
Glad you mentioned Goldsmith. That music when Jobeth is climbing out of the pool is thrilling and terrifying! The whole score is fantastic.
My mom took me to see this in the drive-in when I was 4, her and my cousin would cover my head with a blanket during the "scary" parts. It's my second favorite movie ever that's a very strong memory of mine.
To this day the clown scene in Poltergeist still makes me uncomfortable.
Fantastic score by the legendary film composer Jerry Goldsmith. Although I tend to favor his score for the sequel(Love Taylor's theme and if course Reverend Kane's as well).
My first time watching Poltergeist was in the break room of my home town's town hall where my mom worked. It was either a half-day or after school let out during a rain storm. I was flipping through the channels and came across it, probably on TBS. I caught it around the scene where they are with Tangina and hear Carol Anne from the "other side". The scenes where Diane faces one of the poltergeists outside the bedroom and the corpses in the pool have stuck with me to this very day.
I love how they push the TV out of the hotel room at the end.
Those scenes are some of the scariest, in the film, as far as I'm concerned!! Especially since Tangina had basically told them the house was safe. This showed how unfortunately, wrong she was! Yeah, the scene of Steven pushing the tv out the room at the end is great, followed by that creepy ass Carol Anne's theme! There's something about that music that still makes me uncomfortable, till this day!!
@@brandonpage7087 I never really understood her proclamation about the house being clean. All they did was retrieve Carol Anne back from the other realm. Nothing to combat the spirits. Still one of my all time faves though. And Yes....That music stuck with me even till this day.
Funny you said your parents kept you from the scary stuff. As an 80s baby, we weren't allowed to just watch anything, but my dad (RIP) got off on scaring the crap out of us. 😂 One of my earliest memories is of him showing me the Thriller music video (I was 3yrs old) & a few years later, when our family got a brand new VCR, it was Poltergeist then The Exorcist.
80s parenting--for some of us--was the wild west. lol. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. In fact, even though I own Poltergeist on blu ray, anytime it comes on TV, I still watch it & think of my dad. It was a bonding experience
I could watch til the 90s and i was not ok with with my closet for a long time.
Such an awesome flick-great premise and execution of the idea of a haunted house to date. As a side note, the clown scene spoof in Scary Movie 2 is still hilarious. 😆
Poltergeist is special because it’s a scary family movie that never sacrifices its scariness or its family-friendliness.
This series should be on Netflix it’s that good, great work!
Cheers, buddy!!
Channel 3 yes! Everything had to be on channel 3
These videos are so so good. Love it!
Hopefully they can make a poltergeist legacy sequel movie or tv series with a adult Caroline projecting her own family from the spirits
That's an amazing idea!! I think they should definitely consider that!!
@@brandonpage7087 I've been pushing Hollywood to do it. It makes sense. Pleaseeeeee share my idea
Heather O'Rourke would have been a phenomenal actress, had she lived. Actually, she already was.
Thanks for the Video 😀
Another horror movie where James Karen does something foolish that causes the dead to rise.
Good point LOL
@wstine79, LMFAO, i know right??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Go into the Light."
I actually got Extra Credit for seeing Poltergeist & writing an Outline in HS....
Love the Poltergeist trilogy 🥀🖤
Hell yea!! I was 10 watching this movie and it scared me. I loved it!!!
Disagree with the statement that ET and Poltergeist had similar family dynamics. They are polar opposites. Broken vs nuclear.
Facts and one is classic Tobe Hooper & the other is Spielberg & I'm sure you can guess what the other is
That thumbnail.. Coach Fox is mad as hell and he's not gonna take anymore of Dauber's and Luther's sh@t! 🤣😅😂 But seriously, love this film. What a classic.
God, that clown RUINED me
yeah, join the club...
I don't consider this a horror, it's a ghost story and I saw it when it was released on VHS with my parents. I watched Halloween with them in 80 when I was 4. Great video as always though 😊 🐾 💜
Among the top Horror/Thriller films of all time along with The Exorcist, Halloween 1978, John Carpenter's The Thing, Jaws and The Shining.
Poltergeist looks like a Spielberg movie more than it does a Hooper movie. If he didn't direct it he definitely had many strong suggestions
I admit ET scared me more than Poltergeist
😅 i forgot dan aykroyd in casper
12:38 Is that pvt. Pyle a.k.a. Wilson Fisk?😮
I HAVE POLTERGEIST ON DVD THE ORIGINAL STILL STANDS THE TEST OF TIME BACK WHEN THEY USED REAL SPECIAL EFFECTS NONE OF THAT CGI GARBAGE THAT WE HAVE TODAY. POLTERGEIST 2 AND 3 THAT I SAW ON TUBI LAST OCTOBER THE SECOND WAS GOOD THOUGH AND I ALSO REMEMBER WATCHING E! TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY ON THE CURSE OF POLTERGEIST BACK IN THE LATE '90'S/EARLY 2000'S AROUND THAT TIME.
Your Caps Lock is stuck.
@geesgep4836, i saw that E! True Hollywood Story on the alleged curse on the Poltergeist films, around that time, too. That was my introduction to the so-called curse. I'm a huge skeptic of it, but do think it is very sad, unfortunate, & weird that so many involved with the films, ended up dying young. You can add Beatrice Straight & Zelda Rubinstein to that list, as well, though they ended up passing many, years later, after the film series had concluded. Even the construction guy who pokes his head in, & helps himself to some of the Freeling family's dinner, in that one scene, in the first one, was randomly murdered, in real life, years later. I'm grateful for the cast members of the film series, who are actually still with us, today!!!
Funny; I actually saw 'Ghostbusters' in kindergarten too, but because my parents had the VHS. (I was born the year after.) =)
Such a great film. More than stands up today. It's that perfect combo of Spielberg warmth and genuine menace. What makes this movie work is that it isn't set in a cabin in the woods or somewhere isolated. It's set in the safest place...your home. Horror at it's most frightening. The only thing that hurts this film is that Spielberg pretty much plagiarized a Twilight Zone episode.
Damn, he sure did, didn't he? I forgot about that, and Twilight Zone is one of my all time favorite shows.
Poltergeist scared the hell out of me! One of those movies I never watched alone. The Exorcist being the other. I had the biggest crush on jobeth hot mom that smokes weed! WTF! SO HOT! Still think she is beautiful.
Why does this narrator raise his pitch in a ho-hum way at the end of nearly every sentence? Other than that I like this channel a lot.
Can you do the Kill Counter of the Critters 1, 2, 3 and 4?
Thank God, my parents made the right decision in 1982 and went with VHS.
poltergeist still scary
Spielberg didn’t direct it but he sure offered a lot of guidance to Hooper. It has a TON of Spielbergian-type shots.
Poltergeist was way too intense to be played at 2pm every day on HBO all summer long.
I was 6 when I saw this.
The scene of the parapsychologist eating a chicken leg then tearing his face off traumatised me.
My parents thought it would be funny to buy a bucket of KFC the next day and piss themselves laughing at me eyeing up the chicken leg in my hand with great concern.
Amityville 2 The Posession was not mentioned :(
It's sad seeing young elliot become norman bates, an abusive father and jack Torrance
At least the opening stuff with the family before it all goes to shit is DEFINITELY Spielberg directed.. 👍
Damn I watched “The Exorcist” at AGE 5!
I’m glad I didn’t have snowflaker parents. Damn
2:40 only one of you will make it to the pageant
I watched this with my family and remember crying because JoBeth Williams and my mom looked a lot alike, creepily so, and I somehow thought it *was* my mom and that she had another family that terrible things happened to. I was sad that it happened to the other family and scared it would happen to us somehow. I don't know how my six yr old brain whipped that nonsense up, but it took a good twenty minutes of convincing that it wasn't true. I'm sure that was a good time for my parents. Still love the movie to this day, though. My mom is in it. Just kidding.
She was NOT protected by the production.
The movie is said to be cursed as some of the original cast died following the release of a film.
12:03 Let me in, so I can sniff ya little girl's hair. I mean, talk to ya 'bout voting for me.
Kathleen Kennedy RUINS MOVIES
I'm that weirdo that thinks Poltergeist 3 is the best one 😅
People really think this movie is scary? I find it boring as hell. Just like the original Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I can see how these movies were different for the time, but they aged like milk. The only reason they are still relevant is for nostalgia purposes only.
All about perspective
@@TonyTheLoneRiderSmith Naw, no matter how you look at it, those movies are boring. Halloween especially. It's the exact same thing every time with a boring ass killer. Friday a close second. They are bad movies. The Friday remake is the best with the most intimidating Jason. And the Halloween remakes are the best because at least they look good and did something different that wasn't totally stupid AF like the curse. Did get a bit dumb with the third movie though with Corey.
They are not boring. They havent aged like milk. If that were the case they wouldnt still be discussed about and inspiring other movies and film makers decades later.
You think it is only nostalgia?
Your calling them boring and thinking they are only relevant due to nostalgia shows your age and that you have a very short attention span lol I guess you care only for expensice CGI spectacle because clearly you dont care for subtance nor the skill and craft involved in indie low budget horror movies. The art of suspense means nothing to you, obviously.
@@neonicon8500 "They are bad movies." theyre not. But very curious what you would think a good movie is lol I want a good laugh and want your top 5 movies you think are good in your opinion. Just for amusement's sake.
"And the Halloween remakes are the best because at least they look good and did something different" LMAO how are they different? SRSLY WOW, and you were just criticizing nostalgia in your first comment, oh so nostalgia is only ok when you like the stylized but void of substance movies made today? Gotcha. Youre so vapid.
okay zoomer @@neonicon8500
My friend saw this when he was about 11 and he told about the dude ripping off his face. I simply couldn't imagine the horror of that. When I finally saw it, I could barely watch it and even today, I still wince at the thought of that scene
These are usually very well-researched, but to definitively state that only Tobe Hooper was behind the camera the entire time on this movie is omitting tons of stylistic evidence, stories from the actors on set, behind-the-scenes material, and even still pending court cases to this day. A handful of setups are definitely indicative of Tobe Hooper's touch. The rest of the movie was up-and-down directed and executed by Steven Spielberg.