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  • Actors: Craig T Nelson, Jo Beth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Heather O'Rourke
  • Directors: Tobe Hooper
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 15 Oct 2007
  • Run Time: 110 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000VEBP1I
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,600 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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It’s been a long time coming, but at last the digitally remastered version of the original 1982 horror movie has arrived. Tobe Hooper, the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, teamed up with family-oriented producer Steven Spielberg to make Poltergeist, about a haunted suburban 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 co-wrote 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 five-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

DVD Description
Suburbanites Steve (Nelson) and Diane (Williams) suddenly experience paranormal activity in their home. What begins as minor excitement quickly turns into nasty ghostly encounters. The disappearance of their daughter Carol Anne (O’Rourke) forces the Freelings to bring in parapsychologists and a professional exorcist to exorcise their home.

Special features
 Two-part documentary "They Are Here: The Real World of Poltergeists Revealed"
Part I: Science of the Spirits
Part II: Communing with the Dead


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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars 5* Film, but special edition?????, 17 Oct 2007
Whilst Poltergeist is probably one of my favourite films ever, I am rating this as a "Special Edition" DVD.

I looked forward to this, and what do we get for a 25th Anniversary edition. A documentary. Thats it. No extras about the film. No commentary. No cast interviews. No trailers, nothing. 25 years they've had to come up with this DVD. And all we get is a documentary about Poltergeists. There's one of these shown every day on Sky!

I think they are pushing it a bit far to call this a special edition.

If you want it for the film alone, then I cannot name a better thriller/horror than this. Fantasic film. 5 out of 5. But this package. A total and utter letdown.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally at long last this classic is available on region 2 DVD or is this a dream?, 25 Sep 2007
By Lando Malak "Dok" (Sheffield, UK) - See all my reviews
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I just want to make one important comment before I comment any further so I don't mislead anybody who has never seen this before, it is not a blood and guts type of horror movie but still has every right to be classed as a horror movie. It is mostly about a little girl called Carole Anne (Heather O'Rourke who tragically died at a very young age) that disappears through a television and the suffering and helplessness of the rest of the family.

This is a superb horror film and I genuinely can't remember the last time this was shown on terrestrial TV or even freeview, so if it has been shown in the last few years then I must have missed it, even more amazing is the fact this has taken so long to be released on region 2 DVD when it has been out for years on region 1, I just cannot understand why, better late than never though.

I was very young when I first saw this Tobe Hooper directed (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre) and Steven Spielberg produced gem in the early 1980's but if you have never seen this then don't expect it to be like the film I have just mentioned otherwise you will be extremely disappointed. Overall this has the feeling of a cosy bedtime ghost story type horror movie. It is about a family that moves into a nice but normal looking house on a normal street full of houses (not an isolated type house) and everything seems fine until suddenly little things start to happen for example, imagine you are at home on your own in your kitchen, you then go out for about ten seconds, you go back into the kitchen and there in front of your very eyes, all the kitchen chairs are stacked on the table. This is not exactly what happens but it is a similar sort of thing that happens in this, certainly in the first half of the film and at times it is incredibly creepy. But my only personal criticism of this film and it is probably just me but I have always loved the first two thirds a lot more than the final third. Like I have said the first two thirds is all about ghostly things slowly starting to happen and the family then bringing in a team of paranormal investigators, there is one scene in particular involving one of the team (I think it is the camera man) that always sticks in my mind when I think of this film, which is truly horrible.

About roughly the final third of this film is just too over the top in my opinion (enjoyable, just not as creepy), with more of the feeling of a mainstream hollywood blockbuster (love the final scene though), which is a shame as this could have been even better than it already is, but anyway, this is still an essential movie of it's type and I still give it five stars overall. A HAUNTED HOUSE CLASSIC.

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars At long last.....Speilberg & Hooper's classic on Region 2 DVD!!, 12 Sep 2007
By Terry Manning (UK) - See all my reviews
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I'm just going to write a review of the Dvd, not the film, as most people interested in buying it will know what to expect!

Poltergeist was one of the classic films of the 1980's, and it's utterly ridiculous that it's taken so long for it to be released on dvd in the UK, especially as Region 1 have had a dvd version for several years.
I'm disappointed this release is only one disc, as it's totally lacking in the extras department, (just a documentary & thats not about the film!) but as the transfer to disc and sound are of the highest quality I'm not going to grumble too much.....at least not until the obligatory ultimate edition arrives at some point down the line and I've got to pay out again!!

I've given this release 5 stars for the film. The Dvd gets 2 stars as it's nothing more than a basic release.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Looks good for it's age.
Poltergeist is a good story that has aged very well, although the storyline had clearly run out of steam just before the third film. Read more
Published 14 days ago by A. Perry

2.0 out of 5 stars Fairly tedious
Maybe if I'd watched this when I was 8 years old it would have been mildly scary but this is one of those films that I've never got round to watching until now and it was... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Grant Fitzgerald

5.0 out of 5 stars POLTERGEIST
I Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition) [DVD] [1982] I love this film, it has been a long time getting it. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. S. Hutchinson

4.0 out of 5 stars POLTER-CHRIST!
A very scary movie, good, but scary!

In one scene, a character graphically peels off his face and parts of it fall into a sink. Read more
Published 4 months ago by lukesterator

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb movie
Poltergeist is a horror picture with a lot of touching moments. It does what many horror film just simply cannot achieve. Read more
Published 6 months ago by quatz1981

1.0 out of 5 stars I'm glad this was cheap!
As this appears to be the only region 2 version of this film, I was forced to buy it. Like other reviewers, I love the film, but am completely unimpressed with the "25th... Read more
Published 10 months ago by M. Torr

5.0 out of 5 stars Tobe Hooper's Best Work
Poltergeist is a fantastic film, I didn't know anyone who disliked this film so I thought I would buy it and I must say that everyone was right, this film is amazing... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Langdon Ulder

3.0 out of 5 stars well made but not good enough
I really wanted to enjoy this because this is supposedly such a great film, i even bought this special edition to enjoy it even more! Read more
Published 12 months ago by Ms. F. I. Macdonald

3.0 out of 5 stars Will never watch again, but not because poorly made
This movie scared like me no other movie I've watch which a guess is the point, but when you watch it in the theaters as a child sitting in a booster seat the scare sticks with... Read more
Published 20 months ago by M. Longazel

5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF THE GREATEST HAUNTED HOUSE FILMS OF ALL TIME
Real estate agent Steve Freeling (Craig T. Nelson) and his family, Diane, (JoBeth Williams) Dana, (Dominique Dunne) Carol Anne, (Heather O'Rourke) and Robbie, (Oliver Robbins)... Read more
Published 20 months ago by stuart

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