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🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Strange and creepy happenings beset an average California family, the Freelings when ghosts commune with them through the television set. Initially friendly and playful, the spirits turn unexpectedly menacing, and, when Carol Ann goes missing, Steve and Diane turn to a parapsychologist and eventually an exorcist for help. Today on Buzzn The Tower as we continue our October thrill ride of trying to scare Max, we'll discuss the classic Spielbergian birth child, Poltergeist. I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always, the Carol Ann to my ghosts and ghouls, Max Sanders. And with that.
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0:00.0 | Music |
0:07.0 | Smilberg's fingerprints are all over this. He wasn't allowed to direct ET and poltergeist at the same time |
0:11.4 | But he was doing a lot of second crew second shots on yeah, I feel like goonies vibes |
0:15.6 | I always in my head was like god this feels to me like a remake of close encounters of the third guy |
0:21.7 | Well, he wrote this one right? He's one of the writers max. It's more than that |
0:24.6 | So I dug deep because you're right. He did write it. Yeah, and what I uncovered to me was like |
0:29.4 | It made perfect sense when I read it |
0:31.2 | But I just never had heard it before and I just was blown away by it, okay? |
0:35.5 | Spielberg |
0:36.5 | Conceived the idea for poltergeist as a whore sequel to his 77 film close encounters of the third kind |
0:44.0 | He had a brief treatment and then he he wanted to go to Stephen King to write it Stephen King was too expensive |
0:49.6 | You know all that that it was titled night skies because what this movie feels like to me is close encounters of the third |
0:56.3 | Kind if you swap out the aliens and you put in ghosts and spirits |
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