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Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast

Poltergeist (Patreon Clip)

Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast

The Losers' Club LLC

Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Film History

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Here's a preview of our all-new Patreon exclusive episode that finds the Halloweenies digging deep into Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg's Poltergeist. Want more? Head on over to www.patreon.com/halloweeniespod and become a Patron for more exclusive bonus content! Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happy Halloween trick-or-treaters dreamers, campers, suspects, and deadites.

0:05.0

What you're about to hear is a clip from our exclusive Patreon episode on Toby Hooper's

0:10.4

1982 horror blockbuster, Poltergeist.

0:14.1

How do you hear the full thing?

0:15.3

And I'm talking three hours on the Toby Hooper

0:18.5

Stephen Spielberg production.

0:20.5

Well, become a member of our Patreon, The Rewine.

0:23.7

You could find a link into the description of this episode,

0:25.7

or you can visit W.W. dot Patreon.

0:28.8

com slash Halloween's pod.

0:31.8

Hope to see you there so we can give you one more scare. The

0:36.1

spectacle of it all is just something I was thinking and chewing on because it's like

0:39.2

that's just a magic that doesn't really exist in movies anymore.

0:43.0

Like the spectacle of it all almost is like,

0:45.0

oh, what Easter eggs are we going to get these days?

0:47.0

And that, I don't know, there's something nostalgic about revisiting this movie

0:50.0

and thinking of maybe not even, I guess antiquated is the word but like oh remember a time

0:55.3

when the magic show was the cell in a in in movie making and I just don't know when that ended like when was the last time that we

1:04.2

ever actually felt that I'm gonna say the 90s but I just feel like that's where

1:08.8

it happened I think that's where everything got a little too self-referential, a little too ironic, maybe?

1:15.0

Because let me ask you this question, do you think our, do you think our adoration for

1:19.6

Poltergeist? How much, how much of it is nostalgia for the film is just like a warm blanket because we've seen it so many times.

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