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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD EAN: 0012569647510 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: Warner Home Video MPN: 64751 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 09, 2007 Running Time: 114 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 04, 1982 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: What a combo! Tobe Hooper, the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, teamed up with family-oriented producer Steven Spielberg to make Poltergeist. The film is about a haunted suburban tract home in a development very much like the Arizona one in which Spielberg was raised. (Because it came out the same summer as Spielberg's E.T., it was tempting to see both movies as representing Spielberg's ambivalent feelings about childhood in suburbia. One was a fantasy, the other a nightmare.) Spielberg also cowrote the screenplay, which taps into primal, childlike fears of monsters under the bed, monsters in the closet, sinister clown faces, and all manner of things that go bump in the night. At first, some of the odd happenings in the house are kind of funny and amusing, but they grow gradually creepier until the film climaxes in a terrifying special-effects extravaganza when 5-year-old Carole Anne (Heather O'Rourke) is kidnapped by the spooks and held hostage in another dimension. Though not nearly as frightening as Hooper's magnum opus, or the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, which came along two years later, Poltergeist is one of the smartest and most entertaining horror pictures of its time. --Jim Emerson Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Poltergeist 25th anniversary editionI purchased this disc hoping the remastering of it would be an improvement over the last dvd release. I compared the two versions and the 25th anniversary edition has cleaner lines, the fuzzy static has been completely eliminated and the colors are more vibrant. I am very pleased with this release and the trailer in the older release was nothing that I couldn't live without. I will continue to update my dvd collection as the older movies are remastered, it is worth every penny! Rating: - poltiguist movie, I was very pleased with the movie and with how fast it arrived at my home. Rating:  - Poltergeist 25th Anniversary EditionPoltergeist is my favorite movie of all time. I've been waiting for an Anniversary edition for years! This edition is very disappointing as far as extras go. I gave it 3 stars for the picture and sound quality which have never been better! Where is the theatrical trailer? In the theatrical trailer for the movie, there is part of a deleted scene where everyone is looking at the tapes of the ghosts. They see a black shadow with red eyes and behind it the shadow of "the beast". Diane covers ... Read More Rating: - One of the best in horror.THEY'RE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who doesn't know that line??? If you don't, I pity you. Go rent this movie immediately. The acting is superb, the script amazing, the fx are good for its time. One of the creepiest and most interesting movies to emerge from the horror genre. Another horror masterpiece and a must see/must own. Highly recommended. Rating:  - Classic SpeilbergLately I have been really craving a good suspense/horror film. And I could have sworn I had seen this before, but when I started watching it I realized I have not. And man am I glad now I have seen it. It starts off with nice shots around the town where everything seems normal, and you can definitely tell Spielberg was directing this. The story evolves around a family in there home, who start to notice strange things happening around there house. At first the wife thinks it's amusing, ... Read More |
