Poltergeist

1982
16
1 Std. 54 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,3/10

185.916

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

1.536

392

A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.

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99+ Fotos

Supernatural Horror Horror Thriller

Das Haus einer Familie wird von dämonischen Geistern heimgesucht.Das Haus einer Familie wird von dämonischen Geistern heimgesucht.Das Haus einer Familie wird von dämonischen Geistern heimgesucht.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,3/10

185.916

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

1.536

392

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Für 3 Oscars nominiert
- 5 Gewinne & 9 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
Heather O'Rourke kept the pet goldfish Carol Anne has in the film.

Patzer
Many viewers have pointed out that only one of the houses in the neighborhood is affected by ghosts even though the whole neighborhood and many other houses were built on the same ground. However, there are two sections of the movie that explain this discrepancy: one in which Steven tells a prospective buyer that his family was one of the first to move into their neighborhood, and another in which Steven's boss mentions that Carol Anne was born in the house. The novelization makes the connection more explicit: because Carol Anne was born in the burial ground, the spirits gravitated toward the Freeling household, attracted by her life force.

Zitate
Carol Anne Freeling: They're here.

Crazy Credits
After the credits and the logo of the MGM lion is shown, we hear children laughing. Fans of the film have assumed that the laughing children are those who have been released from the beast and have crossed over the threshold into the next life.

Alternative Versionen
For ABC's 1985 network television premiere, Marty's hallucination is altered so instead of him ripping his own face off, he sees his face rapidly deteriorate briefly.

Verbindungen
Edited into Poltergeist II - Die andere Seite (1986)

Soundtracks
The Star-Spangled Banner
(1814) (uncredited)
Music based on "The Anacreontic Song" by John Stafford Smith
Arranged by Arturo Toscanini
[Played as TV sign-off music several times]

Horror films often do not get their do, and the 7.1 rating for Poltergeist shows that this trend will most likely continue. Clearly an influential film by Chainsaw director Tobe Hooper, Poltergeist reached for, and achieved, everything that the earlier Amityville Horror failed to be; namely, scary, credible, and well acted.

Poltergeist, in a nutshell, is a story of suburban California family that discovers the darker side of the American Dream when their youngest daughter, Carol Ann, makes contact with evil spirits through the family television set. "They're here", never fails to send chills down my spine as I recall seeing this film for the first time as a teenager.

Perhaps 10 to 15 more years will finally lend the credibility to this film to finally place it among the classics in modern horror cinema.