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Tuesday 26 August 2014

Poltergeist (1982)

The 80s had an abundance of supernatural movies and Poltergeist is one of the best. It takes the typical 'two point four with dog' and puts them through a well-paced hell of missing child, evil controlling entity and flying toys. There's a good balance of atmosphere and visual effects and the little girl, Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke), is excellent in her role.
There’s no doubt the framing and camera movements are more a product of Spielberg's vision than Hooper's, but the end product is what counts.

4 frequencies out of 5

3 comments:

cuckoo said...

I'm honestly surprised this was no one ever wiped their nuts on this one during one of 3 Halloween Scary Movie runs.

...it's got bud-butt written all over it.

...and it's a 4 earthquakes out of 5 from me too.

Dr Faustus said...

Maybe it didn’t have enough puppets having sex for bud?

cuckoo said...

It didn't have any sex with sheep in it and you still wiped your boisterous Nuts on it. XD