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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  Poltergeist (1982)
Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg's film is a throw everything at the screen exercise in film making and about as scary and intense as a bowl of Cornflakes.
Like so many kids films of the eighties - The Goonies, The Lost Boys - I'm looking at you here - this clearly had to be seen at the time to be truly loved because as someone in their forties watching this for the first time it really wasn't very good at all. |
I showed my flatmate last year after talking it up for ages, he fell asleep, which says it all
I struggled to get through it myself despite loving it when I was younger.
I had a terrifying experience watching it for the first time at school on the day before summer holidays and every damn person in that room jumped out of their skin when the clown was under the bed