The original Poltergeist is famous for traumatizing children who grew up in the early 1980s, and today's Poltergeist remake seems primed to do the same for children in 2015. But over the years, 1982's ...

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"Poltergeist" brought together two legends of 20th-century cinema with very different sensibilities. We have director Tobe Hooper, best known for the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Hooper's work ...

A book about Poltergeist, the 1982 haunted house movie to end all haunted house movies, could take as many shapes as its titular spectral force. A haunted clown, a possessed tree—an academic ...

Sleep here at your own risk. The infamous house from the 1982 horror classic “Poltergeist” is being transformed into an Airbnb, available to rent by supernatural-obsessed fans. The home, built in 1979 ...

When Poltergeist hit the theaters in 1982, it quickly became a classic in the world of horror. The image of little Carol Anne (played by Heather O’Rourke), sitting in front of a staticky TV screen, ...

Those cast members include two members of the Freeling family, the suburban clan headed up by Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams, whose home is invaded by angry spirits. Five months after the film's ...

Quantum weirdness may explain why some children trigger strange phenomenon. April 1, 2008 — -- The sight of small blonde girls watching television is guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of ...

Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist came out 40 years ago, and scared the bejeezus out of American kids. And the most shocking thing about this film, which turned on an entire generation to a love of horror ...

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