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[@BigGator5]

"They're here." Fun Fact: Heather O'Rourke kept the pet goldfish Carol Anne has in the film. Bonus Fact: The hands which pull the flesh off the investigator's face in the bathroom mirror were the film's producer, Steven Spielberg. Bonus Fact: The shot of the chairs that position themselves in the amazing balancing act on the table was all done in one take. As the camera panned along with JoBeth Williams, who was getting some cleaning materials, several crew members quickly set an already organized pyramid of chairs on the table, then took the single chairs away before the camera scrolled back. The table is off-screen only seven seconds. The chrome toaster on the kitchen counter reflects the crew switching the chair arrangement. Moreover, the leaves of the plant in the corner get disturbed.

[@GageTheMatewielGurl]

Yeah I heard about how they did the chairs, and after watching the movie again I noticed the leafs on the plant moving from one of the crew members

[@jadlad9666]

this is back when TV channels weren't 24/7, there was a time they shut off. the National Anthem would play as a signal, then it would just display static until the morning. the ghosts, however, were not a usual feature

[@jeffk.9075]

Until this movie came out. Now clown dolls absolutely will drag you under your bed to a portal to hell and old trees will bust through the window and try to eat you. And yes, static will definitely bring creepy AF ghosts. 😆

[@Gravydog316]

that makes no sense not to air shows 24/7 imagine now, oh, the whole country gets no internet from midnight-6am

[@darth_kal-el]

RIP Dominique Dunne (Dana) 23 November 1959-4 November 1982. Murdered by her ex-boyfriend. RIP Heather O’Rourke (Carol Anne) 27 December 1975-1 February 1988 Who died from a misdiagnosed bowel destruction caused by a birth defect that resulted in septic shock. She was originally diagnosed with Crohn’s disease.

[@w415800]

06:00🤣😂

[@gionnijohnson408]

​@@w415800that's not funny.

[@TheBabadook616]

"Apparently there's people in our house... Don't know why they're not paying rent" Lmao, you crack me up xD

[@Puggapillar]

Its true, they have to carry their weight 🤔

[@Lasagnaman901]

@@Puggapillar hi

[@Wilmeiser]

Alex talking about Heather O'Rourke: I just know she going to grow up to a teenager Me: Umm.....no unfortunately.

[@Puggapillar]

I did not know she passed away so young omg

[@nancycottone2155]

@@Puggapillar Yes she died during the making of part three that's why it did not do well in theater's they had to write a whole new ending

[@GageTheMatewielGurl]

I was thinking the same thing when hearing him say that and it was an akward moment

[@kylereese4822]

@@Puggapillar The older daughter was murdered and Robbie almost died on set with the clown attack part...

[@liamwarner5749]

@@Puggapillar Quite a few people involved with these films died soon afterwards.

[@SieClinton.]

They used real human remains in the pool scene 😭

[@Puggapillar]

I want to cry

[@whtxombi4955]

And it cursed the prduction and actors.

[@TimedRevolver]

@@Puggapillar Yeah, turns out using real skeletons was cheaper than fake skeletons.

[@Gravydog316]

@@TimedRevolver yes, most movie skeletons are real

[@randomlibra]

Regarding the NATIONAL ANTHEM :P In the old days (70's-80's) TV went off the air at midnight (roughly). The last thing played was the National Anthem and then the TV would go to static until roughly 5 or 6am. And yes, TV remote controls could be on the same signal. They were very simple InfraRed and people with the same TV model all had the same remote and signal.

[@SunshineLoLypops]

Those particular brands actually used RF remotes.

[@Gravydog316]

that's so dumb that's like saying now, ok, your country gets no internet from midnight-6am

[@paulklenknyc]

That wasn’t a smartphone that Dana was on - it was the home’s landline lol

[@Gravydog316]

(sorry i'm Canadian, what's a landline?)

[@iank768]

0:33 "came out in 1902......"

[@msnorringtonsims6536]

Back then, the national anthem would play whenever a station went off for the night. They likely fell asleep watching something else 😏

[@dustyyeager7653]

You should read up on the Poltergeist movie curse. Quite disturbing

[@calebray1834]

Nearly everyone in the cast has died? Right?

[@wheelzbabyliz89]

​@@calebray1834 sadly

[@Ouroboros1958]

The teenage daughter was played by Dominique Dunne who was strangled by her ex-boyfriend & died a few days later. That whole thing was super messed up as he was charged w "voluntary manslaughter" & only served a few years in jail before being released. Huge travesty of justice there (still mad). It was this combination that made people start calling the movie cursed. Then 6 years later, Heather O'Rourke died from a bowel obstruction. The rest are either still alive or lived normal length of lives.

[@hillaryheath220]

I love your reactions, thank you for watching movies that scare you for our entertainment 😂

[@tabunnat]

you are easily one of my favourite reactors! love your content & milo :)

[@Puggapillar]

Wow, thank you! That's very nice of you!

[@Keith-sh4lo]

There's a KZbin channel called Mylo the cat that's been going for 14 years but it was funny at the start.

[@darth_kal-el]

To answer your question. While fish do not sleep in the same way that land mammals sleep, most fish do rest. Research shows that fish may reduce their activity and metabolism while remaining alert to danger. Some fish float in place, some wedge themselves into a secure spot in the mud or coral, and some even locate a suitable nest.

[@rynng3238]

“its funny how some americans sleep with with the american theme song playing” so according to my grandfather, back then tv chanels only ran till like 12 AM-10 PM or something like that. so, after the chanels finish through all the shows, the national anthem would play then static

[@Gravydog316]

yeah thats so weird & dumb then they created infomercials to play all night LOL

[@CrownlessKing88]

Those were actual skeletons in the pool btw

[@beth9786]

love the horror content, your reactions are always great!

[@Puggapillar]

did you watch this on a TV? 😉

[@radioactive_moose]

TV use to go off air at midnight back in the day. The Anthem was the sign off.

[@Dehydrated77]

Man i love u as a person so much, i can't choose another reaction channel that's as exquisite, magnificent, and comedic as u are puggapillar.

[@jadlad9666]

I just discovered your channel a day or so ago and I've been binging your videos ever since. My dad and I watched a lot of these classic horror movies when I was a kid (probably too early for me to be seeing them lol) and it's awesome to see you discover them for the first time!

[@theiaofseed]

"i just knows she will grow up to be a teenager" ..... should we tell him?

[@tree6787]

😬

[@Lasagnaman901]

🙁

[@cupofcait]

😞

[@eddietucker7005]

Why tell him? He would only make a joke out it. This guy is offensive.

[@trash-girl84]

😭😭

[@mercy0718]

The little girl actress died not long after she filmed the movies. People say that she died under mysterious circumstances.

[@greatarchitect]

She died from something in her intestines not that mysterious

[@mercy0718]

@@greatarchitect I didn’t know that. A little sarcastic reply but thank you for the information.

[@joshuah9109]

(I'm 100yrs old) I was 12yrs old in 1982. This came out one week before Spielberg's other movie, "E.T." I loved them both so much, I saw them both 2times in theaters.😁

[@irishgamerkerrielouise]

Almost broke my wrist from pushing watch so fast 😜 When I was a child this movie scared the shit out of me. (I'm 32 now) And the skeletons in this movie are actual real corpses. The movie is said to be cursed. A lot of the actors died in weird ways a few years after it. Can't remember the specifics. But ya. XD

[@gabriellavalentine1629]

The reason the American national anthem was playing is because back then at a certain time at night that would play which means no more tv programs are showing

[@BrianSmithNow]

I would love to see your "Poltergeist 2" reaction. Memorable villain in that.

[@calebray1834]

God is in his holy temple!

[@AlastorsShadowDemon]

@@calebray1834 No one asked.

[@angelothehorrorfan5013]

@@AlastorsShadowDemon it's a saying in poltergeist 2 the villain in the movie says it

[@AlastorsShadowDemon]

@@angelothehorrorfan5013 Proof that the villain isn’t memorable! 😂 Or that I’ve completely blocked the movie from my subconscious.

[@angelothehorrorfan5013]

@@AlastorsShadowDemon okay

[@steveplowright5014]

also, don't expect to see the teenage daughter in any of the sequels, the actress was murdered by her ex-boyfriend a few months after the release of this movie.

[@TheRealMouseMan]

In the remake from the 2010s (im too lazy to search the actual date it was released) you do end up seeing what the other side looks like!

[@semperpieeatordie6990]

I truly blame this movie for my fear of clowns. And IT solidified it. Also for the lion roaring opening I believe they used a total of 50 lions in the time they used that opening. Lol if that makes sense and or is real lol

[@voidlazar9912]

Oh the reason the national anthem was playing was cuz in the 80s some TVs stopped playing at night and before the ones in the us turned off they would play the national anthem then go to static

[@MrHootiedean]

Part II is actually called The Otherside, so if you react to it then you'll see the flipside of the floorgina!

[@TheAscendedDreamer]

I saw this movie when I was two yrs old. In apartment that was across from a cemetery. Yes we had activity in the apt! My mother used to see a little boy running around when she was all alone. Once, she set my newborn bro down for a nap in our bedroom and he started crying a bit later. She went to check on him and the door was suddenly shut and wouldn’t open! When she finally got it open, my little Playschool kitchen was jammed up against the door and my bro had a blanket over his whole body. 😳 We also survived the 94’ Northridge, California quake in that apt. I thought it was ghosts at first 😅

[@roadcoconut2190]

When you talk about the little girl becoming a teenager & the actress died at 12 🫠

[@Puggapillar]

I did not know that oh my god

[@Ouroboros1958]

@@Puggapillar Yeah, bowel obstruction. Doctor's misdiagnosed her & she passed away. Really awful as she was adorable.

[@Vinsensee]

DUDE YES ! I love this movie. The remake was a damn joke though lmao.

[@weaponxreacts]

Tobe hooper died 7 years ago

[@torpedoboy4]

a sleep talker AND a sleep walker? You guys should take that act on the road!

[@Ouroboros1958]

Yes, that is the actress who plays the medium's real voice. She was on some late night shows afterwards and she was quite funny.

[@AsielFlores]

9:52 The American theme song 😂

[@Puggapillar]

Its a great theme song!

[@AsielFlores]

@@Puggapillar Did you know your alarm music is YOUR theme song. Do you have a good theme song? Also, you don’t have to suck up, it’s not that great of a theme song. 😂

[@nicolesaunders2964]

There is a deleted scene from this movie that occurs during the kitchen floor scene. Carol Ann says she's hungry and her mom says ok we'll go for pizza after and her dad says as long as it's not pizza hut, I hate pizza hut. Pizza hut did not like this and said they would sue for using their trademarked name, so they cut that part of the scene out

[@robtierney5653]

Never noticed until now, at 23:58 you'll notice that the Staircase and door on left, do not match the staircase and door on the monitor. The door is open on the monitor, and there's no hallway. The Ghosts are very crazy nitpickers when it comes to illusions.

[@matthewfredericks25]

27:48 if i found out someone built my house on a cemetery and they didn't tell and my house starts getting haunted I'm suing the real estate company

[@Dehydrated77]

Wifey has gon a little bonkers, next time she's gonna attack u while sleepin 😹

[@beaumusika5077]

One of my favourite movies!!! So glad you reacted to this

[@nicolesaunders2964]

She took the bath because she died her hair, because when she went into the light to get Carol Ann it turned part of her hair gray

[@TheRemyLeBeau]

You know what's the craziest thing about this movie? People watched this with their little kids on TV, because that's what we did, watch TV with our kids. This is how I experienced movies like Alien, Poltergeist and Nightmare on Elm Street, by watching it as a little kid with my parents. And then talk about it with my classmates at school, who've also watched it. Plus, Steven Spielberg wanted this to be a movie for the entire family to enjoy. That's why it's rather 'tame' for a horror movie. Before you ask if I'm still sane, of course I am. The people diagnosing us are the same psychiatrists who've watched these movies as a kid as well, so they're not biased ;)

[@Bluesit32]

Tame up until a man rips chunks of his own face off until you can see the bone. Talk about suddenly turning it up to eleven...

[@gloriebluestein9721]

Clowns don't freak me out. THAT clown freaked me out

[@tree6787]

There were actually 11 different lions for MGM but Leo the Lion was the original back in 1957.

[@harleyjackson3708]

Hey, Pug? POLTERGEIST 2: THE OTHER SIDE. Time for the next one! (PLEASE don't do like you did Texas Chainsaw Massacre and skip to the newest one, you missed a lot by skipping TCM part 2).

[@voidlazar9912]

Ye TCM 2 is so good

[@greatarchitect]

@@voidlazar9912 lol nope

[@harleyjackson3708]

@@greatarchitect wrong.

[@harleyjackson3708]

@@greatarchitect It's good, it's just not as good as the first one. If we're talking BAD ones, you're talking part 3, The Next Generation and TC3D. Those are raw sewage.

[@matthewfredericks25]

40:10 I'm surprised that didn't happen to the whole neighborhood since the whole thing was built on a graveyard

[@domgriffith6483]

Oh those skeletons in the pool were actual real corpses

[@SpencerFinley]

technically fish do NOT sleep, although they do rest, but they can't fully sleep like land mammals because they need to be on constant alert for danger 🙂

[@yvonnejaime1266]

Hey there I just gotta say I appreciate you and the wonderful videos you make. Fun fact, there was a poltergeist curse. Like the skeletons in the pool some of them were real. The sister in the first movie is killed by her boyfriend. The third movie was being filmed and the beautiful little girl who played Carol Anne dies. My heart goes out to all the people who got hurt or cursed during these movies.

[@GageTheMatewielGurl]

The reason why they didn't show the other side is they wanted you to imagine what it looked like to make it creepier thinking of the unknown

[@MS.Marie82]

I always liked the sassy little psychic woman.

[@spis_dritt]

27:00 Actually the child who played Carol Ann died during the filming of the third Poltergeist movie.

[@kristennelson3190]

3:26 "God, there wasn't even an epilepsy warning at the start..." 😆😆 Hee, hee - that's cute. This was made in '82. There definitely weren't any epilepsy warnings - on anything😅. And, yeah, there were a Lot of unfortunate headrests on beds in the '80's. Lots of brass and wicker😝.

[@matthewfredericks25]

9:51 if you think about it the national anthem of every country is the theme song of every country

[@jasonregan365]

They filmed this movie in my hometown Simi Valley, CA

[@jean5416]

You are so lucky :)

[@jasonregan365]

@@jean5416 and that is not just that e.t. the creature of the black lagoon and the madilorian

[@ashleywatts8335]

Look up the Poltergeist curse. So much has surrounded these movies.

[@ashd2179]

Hahah!!! You are killing me with the American Theme song 😂😂

[@richellewatts1562]

New subscriber here! Love your reactions and so excited to go through all the classic horror films with you!! Much love from Florida 💜💜💜

[@tashfeensiddiqui4613]

Wait did he say it came out in 1902

[@lennypearl]

I love this movie, and your reactions are great! Just a bit of info from a GenXer from the States: Back in the day, TV stations would play the national anthem at the end of airing, and then there was static. So no one fell asleep watching "The Star-Spangled Banner", they fell asleep to whatever was on beforehand 😉

[@bryahnachristy51197]

The little boy reminds me of Andy from Chucky lol

[@AtomicVampire1]

We didn’t have epilepsy in the 80s

[@JemJam2976]

Did it go somewhere before then? Like most other conditions, known and unknown, I don't think enough was known about it during that time period.

[@toodlescae]

I knew a girl with epilepsy in the 70's. We just didn't know strobe lighting triggered seizures so we didn't have the warnings before movies like this.

[@Bluesit32]

The guy tearing his face off just came out of nowhere. There was no real gore in this film up until then. Exploding rotten steak was the worst of it. Then a guy peels his own face off in chunks.

[@hanonondricek411]

The house being sucked in was pretty cool. ILM built a scale model of the house (which was still pretty huge, apparently it included miniature interior furniture) on top of an industrial vacuum turbine. They shot it from above and over-cranked the the film at an astonishingly high frame rate, then literally blasted the house model with shotguns to destroy it so it would get sucked in. When they ran the film at normal speed, you get the slow-motion destruction and compression in the film. It was one of those "we only get to do one take of this" shots and they got it.

[@MS.Marie82]

30:12 Her whispering about the evil entity always creeped me out. Just the thought of an evil being lying and deceiving an innocent child really makes me 😬...

[@drockherb2073]

From what I’m told before cable there was only a few channels an they only played till like 2 am let’s say and right before they turned off they would play a song or commercial before they shut off, so they weren’t really going to sleep listening to The national anthem 😂

[@domilovez]

My siblings and I refer to our resident ghost a as “billy” too 😂

[@bahamutskingdom]

"They're heeeerrrrreeeee" One of the most iconic lines in film. Almost beyond a pop culture line. If it is said in America, particularly people who grew up with the film, you know exactly what movie is being referenced. Almost like saying "It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again."

[@champ692]

love your content you all ways make my happy when i am sad thank you

[@Dave110442]

Watched this movie heaps of times, they actually used real skeletons in the pool and coffins without telling the mum, creepy.

[@JasonNewell84]

In the swimming pool scene those were real skeletons. Because it was cheaper to get real than fake ones

[@thomasbaker2067]

love Poltergeist.

[@nicolesaunders2964]

Don't know if anyone else has said but when she fell in the pool and the skeletons popped up, they were real skeletons

[@jackodogg717]

Great stuff brother well-done i watched your video while waiting for Xbox showcase always love your videos brother keep up the good work brother 👌👍

[@MythsAMV]

this poor girl, breaks my heart knowing what happened to her. RIP

[@savannahisherelol]

the people in your house could at least help with rent. the nerve 🙄

[@redlaytee6157]

Your vids are always a good time. 👍

[@InnerFireGaming]

Fun fact, they used real bodies, for the pool scene.

[@tree6787]

Wicker furniture was a huge thing back in the day everybody had a piece of wicker furniture. It's so ugly I'm glad that it's not popular anymore!

[@nicolesaunders2964]

I love this movie, but I have to divert my eyes at the beginning of the movie because the flashing lights give me a migraine if I look directly at it, and it was the 80s they didn't really put warnings on any movie lol

[@joshuah9109]

This movie was nominated for 3 Oscars. SOUND EDITING, SCORE, VISUAL EFFECTS it lost all 3 to Spielberg's other hit, "E.T."

[@paulklenknyc]

Yippee ! Can’t wait to watch … starting now

[@akr9648]

Damn classic 👊🏻

[@bloodygoodjune9292]

What did you call the thing you need on when you're sleeping? Doona? Douna? Doonah? What is that? Also, back in the day, the local TV stations would play the national anthem every night before signing off for the night (because there wasn't 24/7 stations at all).

[@Puggapillar]

DOONA!

[@bloodygoodjune9292]

@@Puggapillar BUT WHAT IS THAT?

[@Puggapillar]

YOU AMERICANS ITS LIKE A DUVET OR QUILT

[@nancycottone2155]

@@Puggapillar hope you watch the sequals?

[@jeralyn-t7b]

Thank you for your reactions I enjoy all of your videos 😂😂😊

[@Mrn3wguy]

Considering Whales sleep Horizontally, im almost certain that fish sleep too

[@that_marvel_mf]

If you get cremated there is a time when your body is perfectly cooked

[@pamelaallen-sanders5464]

Always a good time watching movies with you. Thanks.

[@blakeknapp1503]

1902? Okay if u say so Alex🤣💜

[@radioactive_moose]

This got a PG at the time. PG-13 didn't exist yet so you only had G, PG, and R.

[@mightymaxter8867]

Depressing fact. The older Sister was murdered in real life by her boyfriend a few weeks after the films release

[@mistyxmarlboro]

WTF IS HAPPENING?!?! I clicked on “American Psycho”, then quickly clicked on “Poltergeist” instead, & it’s showing the info & comment section for “Poltergeist”, but the video is “American Psycho”! Wtf 😮

[@matthewfredericks25]

32:15 imagine what would happen if you tried to nuke the other dimension

[@n3j663]

I think the MGM lion got out down after intro was made the lion attacked the handlers I think

[@tjfrizzi5965]

Just found your page. Funny stuff mister! BTW that Simpson's episode you mentioned was based on a Twilight Zone episode called "Little Girl Lost'. That episode of the Twilight Zone inspired Poltergeist. Good eye you got!

[@MS.Marie82]

I never was a big fan of Polgergiest, but the special effects were pretty cool.

[@chrislawson1988]

Could be like that guy in impractical jokers his fish died and he kept it in the freezer and still got it. They played a prank on him in one episode where they're selling popsicle and told him look inside and they had took his bird from home and put it in there lol.