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Polter-Cow - Sep 14, 2010 6:53:43 am PDT #11173 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Oh no! They got Sean!


Amy - Sep 14, 2010 7:10:58 am PDT #11174 of 30000
Because books.

My crush on Craig Ferguson outs itself! Yes, Craig T. Nelson. Oops.


Volans - Sep 14, 2010 8:13:23 am PDT #11175 of 30000
move out and draw fire

I give it a 6/7. It's a "gotcha" and it confirms what we already know about clowns, spooky dolls, and things under the bed. So it's a Kid Nightmare Trifecta.

But many other parts of the movie are scarier, and lasting scares, and scares that you can carry with you into your actual life later.


smonster - Sep 14, 2010 9:12:23 am PDT #11176 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Reading this thread has me kind of thankful I've never seen Poltergeist.


erikaj - Sep 14, 2010 9:27:26 am PDT #11177 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

I haven't either. Yes, even though Mom and I consider "Serpico" a girlie bonding flick. I'm kind of gutless when it comes to supernatural horror, though.


Laga - Sep 14, 2010 9:27:44 am PDT #11178 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I was sure I'd seen it but I don't remember any of this stuff. This is the movie where the girl goes into the TV, right?


Atropa - Sep 14, 2010 11:17:37 am PDT #11179 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I give it a 6/7. It's a "gotcha" and it confirms what we already know about clowns, spooky dolls, and things under the bed. So it's a Kid Nightmare Trifecta.

YES. And in my case, not helped by my mother saying after the movie "Oh, you have a clown doll like that. I think it's in the attic". THANKS MOM.

But many other parts of the movie are scarier, and lasting scares, and scares that you can carry with you into your actual life later.

The crawling steak. Carol-Anne looking around from the static-y TV and saying the classic line.


Aims - Sep 14, 2010 12:30:49 pm PDT #11180 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

And of course, the quotable lines.

"Run to the light, Carol-Ann!!"


Beverly - Sep 14, 2010 1:09:52 pm PDT #11181 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

The scariest thing about Poltergeist to me is that both girl-children died within years of its release.

My favorite moment, though, has to be before all the weirdness starts, Steve and Joanne are getting ready for bed and Steve does the suck-in-stomach move, and then pooches it out. "Look, Joanne--Before, After. Before, After." It's such a married moment, ordinary, sweet, and funny, before all the scary.


Sean K - Sep 14, 2010 5:32:57 pm PDT #11182 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Nelson and Williams are very convincing as a long-married couple in that movie.