

The "Beast" ambushes Diane and the children, aiming for a second kidnapping attempt. Before the family is to leave for the Holiday Inn, Steven goes to his office while Dana is on a date, leaving Diane at home with Robbie and Carol Anne. Shortly after, the Freeling family have nearly finished packing to move out of the house. As they recover from the ordeal, Tangina proclaims the house is "clean."

Diane retrieves Carol Anne, and they drop through the ceiling to the living room floor, covered in ectoplasm. Diane, secured by a rope, passes through the portal, guided by another rope previously threaded through both portals.

The entrance to the other dimension is in the children's bedroom closet and exits through the living room ceiling. Tangina also detects a dark presence she calls the "Beast," who is restraining Carol Anne and manipulating her life force in order to prevent the other spirits from crossing over. They are attracted to Carol Anne's life force. Tangina determines the spirits are lingering in a different "sphere of consciousness" and are not at rest. Lesh calls in Tangina Barrons, a spiritual medium. Teague, that the Cuesta Verde development was built on a former cemetery and the graves were moved to a nearby location.ĭana and Robbie are sent away for safety, while Dr. Meanwhile, Steven learns from his boss, Mr. They determine there is a poltergeist intrusion involving multiple ghosts. Martha Lesh arrives with two team members to investigate. As the family frantically search for her, Carol Anne's voice calls out from the TV. While the family rushes outside to rescue him, Carol Anne is sucked into a portal inside the closet. A large limb crashes through the children's bedroom window and grabs Robbie.

During a severe thunderstorm, the gnarled backyard tree seemingly comes alive. These phenomena initially seem benign, but soon grow more sinister. The next night, she again fixates on the TV, and a ghostly white hand emerges from the screen.īizarre events occur the following day: a glass of milk spontaneously breaks, silverware bends, and furniture moves on its own. Late one night, Carol Anne inexplicably converses with the family's television set while it displays post-broadcast static. Steven is a successful real estate developer, and Diane looks after their three children: sixteen-year-old Dana, eight-year-old Robbie, and five-year-old Carol Anne. Steven and Diane Freeling live in Cuesta Verde, a California planned community. It was followed by Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986), Poltergeist III (1988), and a 2015 remake. 84 on American Film Institute's 100 Years.100 Thrills, a list of America's most heart-pounding movies.
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80 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, named by the Chicago Film Critics Association as the 20th-scariest film ever made, and the scene of the clown doll attack was ranked as No. Years since its release, the film has been recognized as a horror classic. Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on June 4, 1982, Poltergeist was a major critical and commercial success, becoming the eighth-highest-grossing film of 1982. For that reason, some have expressed the view that Spielberg should be considered the film's co-director or even main director, though both Spielberg and Hooper have disputed this. Accounts differ as to the level of Spielberg's involvement, but it is clear that he was frequently on set during filming and exerted significant creative control. Spielberg conceived Poltergeist as a horror sequel to his 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind titled Night Skies however, Hooper was less interested in the sci-fi elements and suggested they collaborate on a ghost story. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hooper was selected based on his work on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Funhouse. The film focuses on a suburban family whose home is invaded by malevolent ghosts that abduct their daughter.Īs Spielberg was contractually unable to direct another film while he made E.T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke and Beatrice Straight, and was produced by Spielberg and Frank Marshall. Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais and Mark Victor from a story by Spielberg.
