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  • Actors: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Heather O'Rourke
  • Directors: Tobe Hooper
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 13 Oct 2008
  • Run Time: 110 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001DEUVGK
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,049 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Modern horror movie-makers could learn a lot from watching Poltergeist. For here, you'll find no loud music, no insistence on showing you absolutely everything, and no cast of screaming, nauseating teenagers. In its place is deliberate pacing, some very simple, yet effective, chills, and characters who you actually care about as the tension gets ratcheted up.

It's surprising too just how effective Poltergeist is at its job and this is over a quarter of a century after it was first released. It's not a perfect film, although few would ever have argued that it was, suffering from a slightly flabby running time, and a narrative that has to stretch to cover it. Yet it's as good an example of a haunted house movie as Hollywood has mustered in the past few decades, and it still has the power to send some very unsettling chills up the spine.

Time has dated Poltergeist a little, as you might expect. But it is better for it, and far more effective, resulting in a genuinely unnerving way to lose the best part of two hours. Furthermore, it's never had the chance to look better in the home, thanks to the glisten of a 1080p video transfer on the Blu-ray release. After all, if you want to be scared witless, you may as well be haunted in the best possible quality. --Jon Foster

Synopsis

A peaceful suburban home suddenly becomes a gateway for enraged ghosts who kidnap a little girl and take her to their twilight world. Hiring paranormal experts, the girl's family attempts to discover why she was taken and how to get her back. Great performances by all in this superlative ghost story.

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35 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars 5* Film, but special edition?????, 17 Oct 2007
This review is from: Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition) [DVD] [1982] (DVD)
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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12 of 14 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 Cropsy's Revenge aka Lando Malak "Dok" (Sheffield, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition) [DVD] [1982] (DVD)
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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Tobe Hooper + Steven Spielberg = Poltergeist, 19 July 2007
By Cropsy's Revenge aka Lando Malak "Dok" (Sheffield, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Poltergeist [DVD] [1982] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
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 not yet been released on region 2 DVD but it has been out for years on region 1, I just cannot understand why.

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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