Where is poltergeist filmed

Then make a right turn east on Idle Drive and follow the map to the various locations. As the script called for, this neighborhood was very new at the time "Poltergeist" was filmed and has "grown up" quite a bit over the past 22 years. The photographer, Kevin Sandoval , lives just a few blocks from here and has heard rumors that graves of the Chumash Indian tribe that inhabited this area in the 's were actually excavated and relocated to what is now Chumash Park in order to build homes here.

How much truth there is to that rumor we have no idea A screen shot of a tree and street as they look during the opening credits of the film. Fans of the film have assumed that the laughing children are those who have been released from the beast and have crossed over the threshold into the next life. Alternate versions For ABC's network television premiere, Marty's hallucination is altered so instead of him ripping his own face off, he sees his face rapidly deteriorate briefly.

User reviews Review. Top review. In , Steven Spielberg pulled off an incredible feat. In June of that year, Spielberg released two films only weeks apart that were both highly successful yet diversely different in both subject matter and their target audiences.

One went on to become the highest grossing film of all-time E. Poltergeist had a screen credit of being directed by Tobe Hooper The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , but history has revealed that it was Spielberg's vision, editing and overall command of the shooting that was really behind the making of this extraordinary film. Poltergeist brought back the traditional haunted house genre that lay dormant and restless since The Amityville Horror in At first, the family meets the strange happenings in the home with playful pleasure, but in an instant the poltergeists intentions turn against the Freelings, and their daughter is captured and taken back to the supernatural world where communication is possible only through the bedroom television.

The Freelings waste little time and soon contact a paranormal group, well over their heads, to help them rescue their daughter from the unseen captures. It becomes clearly evident however, that the group is over matched, and they call in a poltergeist expert, Tangina Barrons played with relative enthusiasm and wit by Zelda Rubinstein to assist with the phenomena. Tangina then leads the Freelings through the unknown, both calming their fears and eventually finding a portal that may be the key to retrieving their daughter.

Poltergeist works as both a horror and a thriller. Nelson and Oliver Robins have real chemistry and are believable as a family unit, and unlike most horror films, they make sound judgments and know their limitations. When Carol Ann's bedroom becomes overtaken by the ghostly spirits, they lock the room and keep away rather than trying to fight something they cannot contain.

And when things begin to look bleak, they call for help and look for experts in the field. This is an intelligent horror that doesn't have people running up the stairs when they should be running out the door.

Sure, the scene where a scientist literally pulls his face off or when the bedroom is opened and we see items flying at random as if in a ghostly tornado, might be better served with CGI if made today, the effects still keep the story progressing with a sense of credibility. Probably what keeps things so rooted in acceptability is how simplistic some of the special effects were in the larger scenes.

A closet full of strobe lights are all that is required to convince us that it is a portal to another world and a fan gently blowing the hair of mother Williams' is believable as the spirit of her child flying past her. Simple plausible. Whatever the reasons, Poltergeist works. One of the few screenplays written by Spielberg from one of his own stories, Poltergeist has all the elements that we now associate with the master director.

There is a strong family unit, a child as the central character, above average production values and most notably, not one fatality in the entire film despite all the jilts and jolts.

The closing scenes of chaos including a pool of skeletons later revealed to be authentic , is pure movie magic with frantic pacing and edge of your seat suspense. Since it's release, a lot has been made of the back stories and the curse surrounding the production of the franchise.

Heather O'Rourke tragically died at a young age due to an internal infection and Dominique Dunne who played a smaller role as her sister was murdered the same year as the films release. The subsequent sequels have also included characters that died shortly after their films completion.

Truth or fiction, lore or legend, these stories add to the mystique and mystery surrounding the film. Like most movies successful in the late 70's early 80's, there were sequels that were made with considerably higher budgets but less than stellar results Superman III anyone?

Neither of the Poltergeist sequels or subsequent television programming could come close to capturing the essence of the original. The big climactic scene, when a pounding storm hits the quaint neighborhood, required turning a pool into a mud-filled pit from which coffins and angry skeletons rise. Even less feasible: Sucking an entire house into a hellmouth. Instead, the production built a miniature house out of balsa wood and corn flakes, then sucked it up with a vacuum — a sequence they filmed at half-speed, then sped up to highlight their detailed work and the marvelous destruction.

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