Poltergeist (1982) 🤯📼First Time Film Club📼🤯 - First Time Watching/Movie Reaction & Review

[@GeneralZodFDNY77]

This movie was the first time I experienced people in the theater yelling instructions the screen. And it started with my dad yelling "They stayed in the house?!? WHY THE HELL ARE YOU STAYING IN THE HOUSE?!?!?" Almost 40 years later, you are right there with those people Emily.

[@Cindrbell]

Just to relate... My first n only time reacting to a movie in a theater was Rocky. I was a very young kid. Not many in the theater. Standing up, cheering Rocky on. Good times. Thank u for reigniting the memory!!!

[@philipabelanet5476]

"Dad would make a great coach." I think Matthew's sense of humor is underappreciated around here. *edit* misspelled "is"

[@STOCKHOLM07]

I understood that reference.

[@bobc3454]

He'd make a good coach but Patrick would keep messing stuff up.

[@zairac2564]

I think he'd be incredible.

[@Nate6981]

I immediately got that reference too.

[@brittanygarrison8030]

So clever

[@richardb6260]

Reminds me of Eddie Murphy's bit about how differently black people would react to a haunted house. “Wow, baby, this is beautiful. We got chandelier hangin’ up here, kids outside playin’, it’s a beautiful neighborhood, I really love this. This is beaut-” "GET OUT!!!" “Too bad we can’t stay.”

[@vorpal120]

Ironic that Eddie stars Disney's The Haunted Mansion movie, right?

[@richardb6260]

@@vorpal120 didn't follow his own advice.

[@LA_HA]

Haha

[@Danileith123]

First thing I thought of as well.

[@TimedRevolver]

@@richardb6260 Well, he at least went there to save someone. Bit different from bailing on a haunted house you just moved in to.

[@StCerberusEngel]

The biggest draw this movie has is the family dynamic and the connection you feel between them. And Zelda Rubinstein forever!

[@michaelfitzgerald38]

She was also the narrator for the Scariest Places in Earth.

[@GeekGinger]

That dad would make a good Coach because he is Incredible.

[@LilFireFox]

*smirks* Ha Ha.... Got it!

[@kanteannightmare]

Hahaha... We're old.

[@jermainezinnerman7450]

I see what you did there 😄

[@Ivy94F]

Nice… 👍🏽

[@batmanvsjoker7725]

I see what you did there 😉

[@alwayswrite2011]

7:14 - Matthew DESPERATELY trying to keep it together because he knows what's coming, and Emily squealing in fear. Viewing gold!

[@GigiC4]

When Emily said "when the chairs started to do that shit, OK we're going to leave, we're gona go to nana's house" because of course that's where POLTERGEIST 2 starts. I guess Emily is psychic, she can predict the sequels 😂🤣

[@fryloc0034]

Thank you for that Tid Bit of knowledge, never knew this

[@otisroseboro5613]

😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

[@dansdiscourse4957]

After a year of watching people act like idiots during the pandemic, stupid choices by characters in horror movies seem totally realistic

[@only257]

👍

[@sandrorocha790]

True. 🤔

[@DiggitySlice]

Fear makes people destroy themselves. We've all been watching it happen for 2 years.

[@babykosh5415]

so true

[@WhipperWhip]

Said the same damn thing. Preach 👍

[@DonMachado]

Regarding the last fifteen minutes of the movie, I totally relate. It's something my dad would have done too. Back in the 70's a train loaded with artillery headed for Vietnam was passing through my town trainyard and for what ever reason began to explode. Our house was about 6 miles from the tracks and it still knocked windows out. My dad piled us kids in the car and we raced off toward the explosions to watch and we stopped about a 1/2 mile away. I was terrified and begged to go back home, but my dad was having a helluva time watching the explosions and we stayed for quite a while. So staying in a haunted house would have been right up my dad's alley.

[@lectornox]

Oh God that's awesome!

[@jp3813]

The key ingredient that you're missing is if one of you got kidnapped for a while. Would your dad have done the same thing after getting you back a few days later?

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

Speaking of clowns..."Killer Klowns from Outer Space" (1988) is a cult classic horror.

[@exodia1510]

The beginning of Coulrophobia... Not me of course

[@togroglog2457]

Oh god yes definitely this.

[@josearroyo8008]

And maximum overdrive

[@LA_HA]

@@exodia1510 Nope. That would be Stephen King's seminal horror classic novel, IT (1986) started that particular fear, wholesale

[@TimedRevolver]

It also briefly features a comedian named Christopher Titus. He was the dude with glasses at the start. And now he gets paid to share his lifelong pain in joke format.

[@jamesrowles9249]

When the mom had an emotional freak out, and said she could smell her daughter; that actress convinced me she had a real experience 😳

[@44excalibur]

Fun Fact: Poltergeist is based on an early script that Steven Spielberg wrote in the 1970s called 'Night Skies,' which was originally intended as a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It was a horror movie about aliens terrorizing a family in a farm house and was loosely based on the Kelly-Hopkinsville UFO encounter in 1955. The movie never got made, but elements of the script ended up in Poltergeist, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and Gremlins.

[@andrewdyer384]

Sounds a lot like the film Signs, if I was Spielberg I'd be having a word with Shyamalan.

[@richardb6260]

Production designer, Ron Cobb Alien, Aliens, The Last Starfighter), was supposed to direct "Night Skies". Rick Baker was working on aliens for the film. When the project fell through, Spielberg wouldn't give him back his designs and prototypes. Baker later claimed that ET was based on the work he did for "Night Skies".

[@44excalibur]

@@richardb6260 Oh, I'm aware of that. And Baker is correct, the E.T. animatronic doll was originally one of the evil aliens created for Night Skies. You can go on Google images to see what E.T.'s original appearance was when Baker first created him. It's really disturbing. lol

[@44excalibur]

@@andrewdyer384 There are some similarities with Signs, but very superficial ones. Signs borrows a lot more from The Birds and Night of the Living Dead. Besides, I doubt Spielberg would even care. He had to go though enough legal issues over the directing ownership of Poltergeist between him and Tobe Hooper. lol

[@RaptorNX01]

@@44excalibur Yeah, Signs is structurally almost identical to the short story "The Birds" that the film is based on. and in fact I think Signs does an even better job of matching the tone of the story then even Hitchcock's film did. there's this overwhelming sense of dread thru the whole thing that i always felt the original film never quite captured. (probably has to do with the additional scenes and adding in Tippy Hedren's character instead of just focusing on the family like the story did.) the only thing M Night didn't do, that hitchcock didn't either, was the aspect of the attacks coming in waves. in the story the birds came in on the tides. there even a "shot" of, during one of the lulls, the father looking out over the ocean and seeing all the birds just hovering off shore, waiting for high tide. flowing up and down with the waves. such a creepy bit that I hope gets included if they ever readapt it. worth a read.

[@SPAMDAGGER22]

I saw this in the theatre with my friend who was an usher at the same theatre. He knew when the jump scare hand out of the t.v. occurred and he grabbed my thigh super tight at that exact moment. This full grown man screamed like a little girl for the whole crowd to hear.

[@stephenn77]

There wouldn’t be a movie without the final 15 minutes! Every movie needs a climax too. The clown for sure gave me nightmares as a kid. During this time of the movie in the 80’s it was really quite groundbreaking! It freaked me out for sure back then and is still pretty freaky.

[@merkerb]

This movie sparked my interest in the paranormal!!!! The guy in poltergeist 2 scared it out of me for a while though lol 😂

[@dnllrnt]

I think we can all agree: Tobe Hooper is listed as the director, but this was Spielberg's baby.

[@fkw1239]

Fun fact the skeleton used in this were real deal.

[@swantonatombomb]

Yes it was cheaper back then to buy real skeletons from India rather than plastic ones, same with the skeletons in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

[@SaraBanartist]

"Now honey, in this next scene your character is going to land in a pit that's revealed to be full of skeletons. Are you going to be okay with that?" "Oh sure. I mean, what's a couple of plastic skeletons?" "...yes...plastic..."

[@letmadora28]

"Fun"

[@warre1]

@@SaraBanartist Actress has told that she was informed about the skeletons being real only afterwards

[@DanJackson1977]

Fun fact... literally any skeletons you see in movies are the real deal.

[@martinbraun1211]

Please watch "Arachnophobia" (1990)!

[@darrenrunning5415]

It's funny, I was talking with a co-worker the other day about there being a time when tv stations would stop broadcasting at about 2am; they would play the National Anthem then there would be static until 6am. Poltergeist is the perfect example of something that those born after 1990 don't understand what it was like to not have a 24-hour broadcast day and overnights filled with infomercials.

[@adambrown3918]

It's a time capsule. There are whole generations of people now that NEVER experienced broadcast television. Cable and internet became the norm.

[@1986jamesa]

I was born in 86 and learned about this in classic cartoons.

[@pokeround]

Same in the UK and the final announcement would be "goodnight and don't forget to switch off your set".

TV channels went off at 10:00 PM until 6:00 AM. Later it was 11:00 PM then at 12:00 AM and on and on until 24-hours tv.

[@Melancthon7332]

Heck, there's now more than a full generation who probably have never seen static on a screen - other than in an 'old' movie.

[@richardrobbin2225]

Craig T. Nelson would actually be an "Incredible" dad! 😉

[@SpawnVII]

13:00 "Return the slab!" I LOVE COURAGE AND THATS ONE OF MY FAVE EPISODES!! 🤣🤣 *record scratch* "King RAMSEEEEES!!!!"

[@evilkitty2007]

'Bet he'd make a good Coach...' he's probably an INCREDIBLE superhero :D

[@dracoargentum9783]

He'd be up to Parr...

[@tyger166]

Aside from the horror aspect of this, the family is written really well/acted believably.

[@paulhewes7333]

The dude peeling his face off scared the crap out of me as a kid in the 1980s's and it still gives me nightmare all this time later...

[@nigelhickman2274]

Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner was the nightmare in a nightmare = "An American Werewolf in London'

[@heavyvacation]

@@nigelhickman2274 I don't know why that isn't as popular and known as it should be! That's a great movie - Black Black comedy

[@karlmortoniv2951]

Yeah, time has not been kind to the peeling face scene. I remember all my friends who managed to see it back in the day would NOT shut up about it. By far the most memorable thing to a lot of people. It wasn't Rick Baker, was it? He was more Joe Dante's guy than Spielberg's, I thought - not sure off the top of my head though.

[@sexysadie2901]

The hands peeling the face off are actually Spielberg's.

[@goatbrother8718]

Emily: „Me in that situation, I would‘ve taken my family and brought them to Nana‘s house and call a supernatural investigator.“ Me: „who you gonna call……..Ghostbusters“😂😂😂😂 I really love how invested Emily gets

[@willipic]

Fun fact, the skeletons were real....and nobody told JoBeth Williams this until the scene where she falls into the pool and they start popping up was done. Jerry Goldsmith did the music, he also did the music of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He was a very, very well known composer.

[@ronbo11]

Goldsmith's first "famous" score was for the original version of "Planet of the Apes" in 1968.

[@Trainwheel_Time]

Sure they were man. Human skeleton's are just lying around for anyone to use in their movies. No laws protecting human remains and all that. Use some common sense here. This is an urban legend like many others that surround this film.

[@dominickjustave3558]

@@Trainwheel_Time wrong special

[@willipic]

@@Trainwheel_Time They were, google it and you will see the places that say that it was cheaper than getting props.

[@IanFindly-iv1nl]

Try one called The Entity. Another poltergeist themed flick from the early eighties. However THAT movie makes THIS one seem like an old Walt Disney movie by comparison (you'll find out what I'm talking about when you see it).

[@isaacmhdz]

18:50 Oh man, that was the first time I saw Emily really furious! 🤣🤣🤣

[@osculim]

I watched this back in the 82 was 7 years old. This movie scarred me for life as a kid. No wonder everyone from the 80s hate damn clowns.

[@JoeJanesic]

This movie scared the crap out of me as a 14-year old kid. I had my own bedroom at the time and I have to say that if there had been a tree outside my window, I would not have set foot back in my room EVER. As I got older I did read articles about how the effects were done for this film, they were groundbreaking at the time.

[@TonyTheLoneRiderSmith]

Holy fuck this just made my day!! Now after watching your reaction I have to say you guys are crazy. Without the end part the movie wouldn't be as great or iconic as is. Just cuz you'd make a decision to leave the house doesn't mean everyone else in that situation would even if you think you would make that choice. Wasn't months they stayed there as they were obviously moving out right after the ordeal plus people love haunted houses so not all would leave immediately. 10/10 best movie ever!!

[@jimmymelendez1836]

Poltergeist is one of the all time great movies from the 80's. The score is stupendous.

[@andrewkell2474]

I could watch this movie 1000 times and the second I hear "Neither have you!" "Your right! You go!" I laugh my ass off. Also the burial ground quip could be about The Shining.?

[@RaptorNX01]

More likely a reference to the Amityville Horror. thats where the trope started.

[@wolf9walker]

I loved the last 15mins and they thought the house was clean. It also leaves it open for part 2. Because it tells us it's not over and a part 2 is on the way.

[@msfaerywing]

Omg you guys!! Best movie review duo ever!!! I've seen this movie a hundred times!!

[@stevenmclaughlin7073]

i about died when he said "i bet he'd make a good coach." That was an Incredible remark.

[@lennypearl]

"Shut the blinds, baby"... Emily's reactions are so adorable and funny! Best reaction video of this movie I love so much on KZbin I've seen! :-)

[@gogames31]

The girl that was the teenage sister,was Dominique Dunne,younger sister of actor Griffin Dunne. She was tragically murdered at age 22 a few years after the movie in front of her home by a crazy ex boyfriend.

[@anthonymunn8633]

Dominique actually died the same year the movie came out,5 months later.

[@Seereene1]

@@anthonymunn8633 yes, she had been killed while the movies was still in theaters. The same with Julian Beck - the scary preacher from Poltergeist 2. He had been battling cancer while still acting.

[@kieronball8962]

Favourite reaction moments: Matthew's glee at mentioning that the Dad would make a great " Coach! " Emily's comment " Through Salt At It! " 😁

[@Axess-sv8nq]

Saw this video in my subscriptions page. First thought: "Oh, jeezus. Here we go!" 😂😂😂

[@yandnat1656]

The fact they remade this classic, still boggles the mind!

[@Robert-ht7om]

In defense of the last part of the movie, they believed they were fine for the moment and the house was clean, but it was never the house, but the land which we find out was full of bodies, like cleaning a wound without knowing about an infection, the whole neighborhood might of even be subjected to hauntings except for Carol Ann being the main target of the spirits, the only thing I would of changed would have the family stay in the living room or at least in the same room.

[@TsDwelling]

I really appreciated the Courage the Cowardly Dog reference. I loved that show.

[@morganyakkofan9052]

Me too. I can’t wait to see the “Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby Doo Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog” movie.

[@Seereene1]

This may sound strange, but I assumed a period of time (like months or weeks had passed) between getting Carol-anne back and moving day. I mean, it takes a while to sell your home, get boxes, find a new place. I thought the house was "clean" as Tangene said, but they just didn't want to live there anymore. I thought those last 15 mins was the most exciting part of the movie.

[@tbirum]

Great movie I saw it in the theaters with my family when I was 9 The whole family loved it. You really should have Emily watch "They Live" John Carpenter Film that far too often gets overlooked. IMHO it is as good as "The Thing" (very different films) but the craftsmanship of each film is equal.

[@Seereene1]

They Live has the best fight scene of any Americsan film-hands down. Other reactors have reviewed it. It still holds up.

[@vorpal120]

Classic 80s! The mindset of the 80s when you watch this is totally different. We have had so many horror flix that people's reaction to this kinda phenomena is totally different than that of people 30 years ago. Weird. I hope we get the sequel sometime too.

[@johnmccarron7066]

One of the things I love about Spielberg movies is parents being people. They aren't saints, they aren't perfect, but God, they are doing their best. The older I get, the more I find myself relating to them. Incidentally, the Poltergeist productions had a couple of deaths related to them (some naturally occurring, but others not). The actress who played the teenage daughter was strangled to death by an abusive former boyfriend at the age of 22, and the little girl who played Carol Anne starred in all three Poltergeist films, but died at the age of 12 (due to a hospital misdiagnosis). There seemed to be a lot of stuff like that surrounding the production (the boy was almost strangled to death by the clown prop on the first take).

[@possiblepilotdeviation5791]

JoBeth Williams (the mom) was so lovely.

[@possiblepilotdeviation5791]

@@SpaceCattttt No, but you are free to. I don't go around dictating other people's speech.

[@BrianSmithNow]

She's such a heroine. Don't mess with an 80s horror movie mom. Lol.

[@TheHulk2008]

1982 was an insane year for movies The Thing, Star Trek II , Blade Runner , Poltergeist, E.T.

[@wendellbunn10]

Never seen someone get so frustrated at a movie, I was afraid Emily was going to burst a blood vessel. I can only say Amityville horror.

[@janna-renee]

Here's a suggested name for Matthew: "Celluloid Chef"

[@jameswilson8433]

Or Celluloid Chief.

[@agresticumbra]

I was an adolescent when I saw this in the theatre in '82, and cackled when the clown was trying to strangle Robbie. I absolutely adored it when the dust and glitter came out from under the kids' beds. Loved the relationships of the family, regardless of their decisions. This film is in my top 20 of all-time. I find it highly entertaining.

[@dread9030]

"I bet he'd make a good coach..." looks like you and I are the only ones that get that reference.

[@jesselester9722]

I also got the reference & I'm probably younger than both of you.

[@williamwhitecage7988]

as well as an INCREDIBLE hero :P

[@TheRequiemOfficialReal]

This house is a block away from my high school. I use to pass it twice a day for 5 days and 3yrs, I would tease my friends "they only moved the headstones."

[@alijohnson]

I been laughing all day after watching this . The house is not clean lmao

[@Nate6981]

"Ok, we're all going to go to Nana's house..." Lol, that's the sequel...

[@johnwoodworth9127]

"I bet he'd make a great coach" I was just thinking when Emily said that "well he was a great coach"

[@scyphe]

I've never seen Emily get so affected by reacting to a movie before whether it's fear or having a rage attack due to stupid behavior by the characters. :) Poltergeist 2 is definitely worth watching as well. It's got a similar feel to it and that character we all know is so darned creepy.

[@TheEMFB]

"It doesn't take much to tickle me" 🤣 You totally nailed the "mostly..." btw

[@GonkThePowerDroid]

THIS.. is one SERIOUSLY well made movie. Making believable characters and then put them in harms way. Most Best Movie academy awards nominated movies fail to achieve this level of realism.

[@katthor7311]

When it took Emily so long to get the Coach reference. xD You are definitely me in this reaction. So great, both of you!

[@Stevarooni]

Those gears were _grinding_ hard! 😁

[@SigridFrings]

In my opinion one of the best film scores ever. I love this movie

[@mikefoster6018]

I love this film so much. A huge part of my childhood (albeit probably contributing to me thinking my weird Popeye wallpaper was moving!) It has a lovely gentle touch amid all the stress. A genuinely fully portrayed family, no vindictive people (just a jerk or two), and a nice sense at the end that vindication is sorted ... yet also a genuine nightmare to get through, regardless. I also very much adored the mum (and probably admired the dad) when I wasn't even quite a teenager!

[@michaelcantwell711]

React to "House 2 or Beast Master" these are two of my favorites

[@mickymoist]

House was good too

[@whiteheat916]

House 2. What a crazy movie. It was like the first goofy horror-esque movie I ever saw.

[@gdiaz8827]

House1 was the best in that series

[@adamsgrad93]

This movie is why I hate clowns and puppets. I was 8 when this came out and it scarred me for life.

[@jp3813]

You didn't like The Muppets?

[@hk43xx]

When the Marvelous Mr. Movie Manager mentioned that his pet peeve in movies is when they make a big spread for breakfast, and everybody just grabs a bite of toast then leaves, I was in total agreement. Another one is when they are sitting at the table and just moving their food around on the plate, but never actually eating it.

[@johnwilliamson2207]

Back in the day Poltergeist was THE movie to watch everytime it came on HBO and each time it did my friends and I, the next day in school, all asked each other "did you watch Poltergeist again last night". It was just all the rage in our elementary school cafeteria conversations.

[@curthoglund8031]

Emily reaction was priceless loved that!!!

[@rocketmunkey1]

The film really isn't about a poltergeist, If you pay attention to the films subtext, its actually about the TV. The evil presence in the house which takes Carrol Ann away from the family is the TV set, its the first thing you see in the film, and the last thing you see, when they kick a TV set out of the motel room. The scene when the Father and the next door neighbour are arguing over the remote. And when Carrol Ann says "Theyyyyre Heeere" the Mum asks her who did you mean and she replies "The TV people" When you listen to the Tangina Monolog again with the realisation she is talking about the TV it really makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up on end. " There's one more thing - a terrible presence is in there with her. So much rage, so much betrayal. I've never sensed anything like it. I don't know what hovers over this house, but it was strong enough to punch a hole into this world and take your daughter away from you. It keeps Carol Anne very close to it and away from the spectral light. IT LIES TO HER. It says things only a child can understand. He's been using her to restrain the others. To her, it simply is another child. To us, it is the Beast. Now let's go get your daughter."

[@rocketmunkey1]

Also if you look at the Poltergeist movie poster with Carrol Ann touching the TV set, Look at the tag line it reads "IT Knows what Scares YOU" its referring to those who own the media and the Hollywood productions they pass off as "News" A scared population is a compliant population !

[@Blackshirt123]

Beatrice Straight who played the paranormal expert in this, was also in "Network", which I highly recommend if you have not seen. She holds the record for shortest amount of screen time for an Academy Award-winning performance for her appearance in it.

[@CraftsWithCrafts]

Every night when programming ended around 1AM TV stations would actually sign off with the anthem before going to a test pattern, and then programming would start with Breakfast TV shows at 6AM. Many a night I've woken up to a test pattern.

[@JosieSchuller]

Oh darn, I never got the notification for this one. The bell's on too. Thanks, KZbin 😑 ETA: It was a good reaction but my favorite part was at 27:30 when your cat made a special guest appearance 😄

[@PChazman1]

I saw this at an oversold sneak preview showing. Occasionally, theaters would have a single showing of a film a week before it was supposed to be released, and it would screen at 8pm as a double feature with another film showing before or after it. So many people came to watch the film before and stayed when the people for Poltergeist came in, there ended up being a row of us laying on the floor in front of the screen. Watching this close to the screen was an incredible experience as you felt really immersed in the movie.

[@jacotromp59581]

Around 1984 when I was 6 years old, my dad showed me this movie on good old vhs and it blew me away. My dad was cool that way. I could rent any movie I wanted.

[@lectornox]

I remember my dad when I a kid kept looking for a movie Dawn of the Dead. We looked for it for about 3-4 months and we finally got it around 10:00 p.m one night and watched it later that night I've seen that movie at least 300 times since!

[@tbirum]

YO what happened to your guy's "Face Off" reaction? did it get taken down??? That was one of my favorite reactions from you two

[@Seereene1]

I know right!! It's gone!

[@scottgibeault1717]

Eddie Murphy: "This place is beautiful baby I really like it!" Ghost: "Get. Out." Eddie Murphy: "Too bad we can't stay baby..."

[@letmadora28]

The reason why they stayed after recovering the daughter was because the médium said the house was clean. She is the expert, she helped you, why wouldn't you believe her? And they were leaving next morning anyway. If you don't have anywhere else to go, you stay. Why are you wasting money on going to a hotel if nothing bad has happened to them, it's just chairs pilling Up. I think the decisions are in line with the personalities shown in the beginig: Pot smoking, no worries, easy going. That's why I never had a problem with their decisions.

[@ComandoPadentro]

They thought the house was "clean" so, in their mind, one more night was not supossed to be a problem. They WERE moving away.

[@elzar760]

Tangina and I would be having some words after I got the family situation if I had been Steve.

[@ComandoPadentro]

@@elzar760 oh, I agree with that! Lol...

[@victorramsey5575]

Heather O'Rourke, aka Carol Ann, sadly passed away during the filming of part 3. Its all part of The Curse Of Poltergeist (look it up). They had to CGI in her likeness to complete the film. Heather O'Rourke is buried in a wall crypt at the Westwood Cemetery in Los Angeles. Many other celebrities are buried there. Its a very well hidden place right off Wilshire Blvd. Back in the day, we used to go burn one with Jim Backus, aka Mr Howell from Gilligan's Island. He is also buried there. We would leave candy or a flower with Heather O'Rourke. RIP to all the greats at the Westwood Cemetery.

[@benjaminedenfield3368]

May the 4th be with you! Great reaction as always! Love your t-shirts!

[@michaelmorrow8198]

Saw this in theaters as double feature with Superman 3!! Scared the sweet n salty out of me. Now, I watch it and cry like it's the Color Purple

[@SirPaladin]

"Why don't white people just leave the house when there's a ghost?"- Eddie Murphy.

[@frozengamer3030]

They invite them to dinner

[@misterkite]

If this was real, I would hold onto the house and sell tickets.. because proof of the supernatural is worth a fortune.

[@tapoemt3995]

The lawsuits from peoples missing family members would put a real kink in that.

[@misterkite]

@@tapoemt3995 They signed the waiver. If they really want to find their family members, they're free to explore the house.

[@rainydaydreamawy]

But the house imploded.

[@LA_HA]

This thread is awesome. haha

[@tapoemt3995]

@@misterkite True, yet with all FB, Twitter etc. protections, they still have to deal with thousands of go nowhere lawsuits. Welcome, to Jurassic Park! Buckle up.

[@kennethtilton6137]

Ok. Noone has mentioned it yet as far as I've read ahead so I'll mention it: The talk around Hollywood was that this film series was cursed, beginning with the mysterious death of Heather O'Rourke, dying I'm her sleep from a rare disease she didn't even know she had. The girl that played Dana was strangled to death by a jealous boyfriend, the Indian in the sequel was stabbed to death outside of a nightclub. There were a number of other incidents involving the crew other the time they were filming. Craig T. Nelson said he couldn't bring himself to watch the movie if he was alone.

[@21toadian]

Love the Courage the Cowardly Dog reference

[@TxSonofLiberty]

There is a Curse: Deaths, Near-Deaths, Paranormal happenings, all connected. All three children were affected: Eldest Daughter murdered by boyfriend (eliminating the off at college scenes from being shot for sequel) Son strangled during shooting of first film (the robot clown malfunctioned, he was really being choked, crew didn't realize his struggling was real because it was in the script, his turning blue in the face tipped them off, but he nearly died... often overlooked by 'Poltergeist Curse' skeptics, because they simply see he is still alive and don't realize he survived a near-death) Youngest daughter/Carol Ann died from a poop infection (seriously, blockage plus toxic poop, didn't survive surgery to unblock her... 4 months before the third movie came out... may or may not still have been filming some reshoot scenes at the time, may or may not have had a body double used for reshoots) One of the Paranormal Investigators only survived not drowning in a plane crash because a Flight Attendant recognized him and bumped him up to First Class when he was being seated... the passenger in his original assigned seat drowned when the plane crashed into water and that section was submerged for around a half hour. One of the Construction Guys was brutally murdered in his home by an escaped conviced with an ace when the ex-con broke into his house to steal his car. The Psychic (only cast member besides Carol Ann's actress in all three films) seems to have died of natural causes at a reasonably old age (mild heart attacks don't tend to be Fatal, ergo the term mild, even for someone in their mid 70s) and at her request she had no funeral (Suspicious? Superstitious? Did she know something?) The mother would find all the pictures in her home tilted, everyday, after shooting, despite straightening them all. The Writer, right after writing the line "Lightning streaked the sky" had a freak lightning bolt strike his building, all the lights go out, and all the video games in his house turn on and begin playing themselves. And that is just people connected with the first film, more from the second, third, and reboot seem to have been affected.

[@John-og7os]

Pure coincidence.

[@TxSonofLiberty]

@@John-og7os 1 or 2 incidents is a coincidence 3 or 4 is a conspiracy 5 or more is a fact.

[@jerome007ify]

Love how Emily grabs her 🐻 every time something scary happens. 😛

[@ericy4522]

Great reaction! Honestly, back at original release time, the face makeup was believable & scary enough! Your cat's tail is also very entertaining 🐈😄

[@jeng9927]

Everything about this react was ✨priceless✨. I had to watch this twice; once for Emily and once for Matthews reaction to Emily. 😭😂

[@user-dz6fy6qv2l]

"I'd bet he'd make a good coach" HA!!!

[@tylerlucas3752]

“I bet he’d make a good coach” haha 😂 I busted out laughing when I heard that. But he was a great coach for sure!!

[@ElaMongrella]

The teen daughter was played by Dominique Dunne, who was the sister of Griffin Dunne, who played Jack in An American Werewolf in London.

[@86forever]

and also was the daughter of Famous author "Dominick Dunn"

[@mrfomo217]

That coach gag, followed by pure confusion. Comedy gold, Matthew.

[@SebastianWeinberg]

3:40 - *“You never stayed up very late as a kid, did you?”* Yeah, the idea of a TV network playing the national anthem and _ending its broadcast_ for the night went the way of the Dodo, as soon as they realised that you can advertise and sell shit to the sleepless and the unemployed, too. (And the sleepless unemployed.) 4:30 - *“Aw shit, Tweetie. Couldn't you have waited for a school day?”* I bet that's the fifth or sixth "Tweetie" they had to swap out… 12:26 - *“Do you have on music? Are you listening to headphones? **_Pay_** 👏 **_Attention!_** 👏”* Nah, you gotta remember that this was made back when everybody was still convinced that the existence of souls and the afterlife was _totally_ a settled matter, so incontrovertible hard evidence of spirits was simply no big deal. Nothing to get _excited_ about or pay any attention to, even if you're being paid for it. 😁 27:16 - *“It's ‘Kids! Breakfast is ready!’ And they come down, and they take **_one_** bite of toast… ‘All right, I gotta go to school.’”* Yeah, they hate showing the actors _actually_ eating anything, because of continuity between shots - and of course the actors don't like having to eat the same damn (cold) food over and over and over again, as they're being filmed from different angles, not to mention repeat takes. My own pet peeve in the same vein is the *_obviously_* empty coffee cup that's so ubiquitous in TV and movies. I mean, I completely understand that they can't have _actual liquid_ inside those cups, let alone real coffee! Once the actors start chewing the scenery and gesticulating, that stuff would go _everywhere!_ It would be a wardrobe nightmare. But would it kill the props department to glue a couple of heavy lug nuts into the bottom or something? Anything they got lying around that's got a bit of weight, just to give the cups some realistic heft and weight, instead of their _painfully_ obvious emptiness. 31:26 - *“I get it. That's one of the things some people have problems with horror movies about. It's frustrating because characters make… bad decisions. ”* It's like they are completely unaware that they're inside a horror movie and think they're in real life instead, where you have to consider your family finances and can't just up and sell a house at the drop of a hat, so it's easier to tell yourself everything's _just fine_ again, rather than take your family to live in a motel for who-knows-how-long. 😁

[@darcywiley5096]

If people always made good decisions, most movies would end in the first act.

[@SightseeMC123]

"A real 'season 8' situation." Yeah, I felt that. God how did they screw the ending so badly that we're dunking on movies with GOT's screwup?

[@scottlette]

One of the best Tobe Hooper movies he ever walked away from.

[@MrTech226]

This movie lost their two actors: Heather O'Rourke (Little girl) and Dominique Dunne (her big sister). Heather died of complications from a surgery at the age of 12, and Dominique was murdered by her ex-boyfriend. She was 22.

[@jeffmartin1026]

The house implosion was a real effect. They built and wired a model of the house and pulled back through a hole and filmed at 300 frames/second and then slowed down. I agree with your negative about the teenage daughter being an afterthought and the face peeling scene.

[@MNolton]

I think she missed the part with the moving van and boxes being when they left the first house, and moved up onto the hill that the other guy had been talking about building new houses on. The haunting traveled with them.