Poltergeist (1982) w. Carmen Maria Machado

You Are Good

Sarah Marshall + Alex Steed

Film History, Film Reviews, Relationships, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Y'all mind hanging back? You're jamming our frequency. We talk mothers, real life curses, and Poltergeist with the magnificent Carmen Maria Machado! You can find Carmen's work here (https://carmenmariamachado.com/).You Are Good (https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good/) is a feelings podcast about movies.You can buy a Vulnerability Kink shirt (https://www.bonfire.com/vulnerability-kink-34you-are-good34-shirts/) here!You can find us on Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/youaregoodpod), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/youaregoodpod), Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/youaregood) and Apple Plus (http://apple.co/yag).This episode was made possible by your support! Thanks to everybody who supports us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/youaregood) and Apple Plus (http://apple.co/yag).Multitude (https://multitude.productions/) handles our ad sales!The Music of You Are Good, Vol. 1 (https://carolynkendrick.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-you-are-good-vol-1) is here.Miranda Zickler (https://linktr.ee/mirandatheswampmonster) and Carolyn Kendrick edited this episode!Fresh Lesh (https://www.freshlesh.com/) produces the beats for our episodes.Liz Climo (https://thelittleworldofliz.com/) designed our logo!

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0:00.0	Hello you, welcome to You Are Good, a feelings podcast about movies, today we are talking
0:15.2	about Poltergeist, we are talking about the 1982 Poltergeist, and we are talking about
0:19.4	it with Carmen Maria Machado, I am one of your hosts, Alex Steed, I will soon be joined
0:24.9	by my tremendous co-host Sarah Marshall.
0:28.3	Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Toby Hooper and written
0:34.3	by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grace, and Mark Victor.
0:38.7	It stars among others, Joe Beth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, and Bernie Strait, and it was
0:42.9	produced by Spielberg and Frank Marshall.
0:45.8	The film focuses on a suburban family whose home is invaded by vengeful ghosts that abduct
0:51.4	their youngest daughter.
0:52.8	I can't believe that in this conversation we talked about this movie, and we never brought
0:57.6	up the fact that Craig T. Nelson's character is reading a biography of Ronald Reagan.
1:04.6	It's surprising that this never came up.
1:07.2	Carmen Maria Machado is an American short story author, essayist, and critic, best known
1:12.7	for her body and other parties, a 2017 short story collection, and for her memoir in the
1:18.1	Dreamhouse, which was published in 2019.
1:21.8	Carmen is frequently published in the New Yorker, Granta, Light Speed magazine, and other
1:25.6	publications.
1:26.6	It's been on your wrong about a number of times, and we are truly blessed to have Carmen
1:33.1	here talking about Poltergeist with us.
1:36.0	How is everything going in your world?
1:38.2	How is your life?
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