Poltergeist
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2015
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Carlos and Donna had never seen Poltergeist, but Chris suspected that it would be a perfect pick for this year's Halloween episode. The film's success paved the way for two sequels, a TV series, and a remake - but its real legacy seems to be a curse that supposedly haunted the cast & crew and some controversy surrounding who actually directed it. We get into all of that and more so turn off the lights, grab some candy, and follow the HDYR gang into the light.
Topics include: One of Chris' worst Halloweens as a kid, the lighthearted first act and why the film works so much better because of it, the sequences that still creep us out, some stuff that hasn't aged as well, the origins of the Poltergeist curse, why the family stays in the house, what happens to the dog, how much weed Mom & Dad smoked, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember Poltergeist? |
| 0:07.1 | Hello and welcome to Hey, do you, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.7 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.6 | And today we're revisiting Poltergeist. |
| 0:53.4 | Thank you. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Poltergeist. Film geeks and even many critics have argued that 1982 was one of the greatest summers for movies of all time, |
| 1:00.3 | particularly for genre fans. It was also affectionately known as the summer of Spielberg because |
| 1:05.5 | Poltergeist and E.T. were released within a week of one another. But wait a second, didn't Spielberg only produce |
| 1:11.7 | Poultergeist? There are a lot of layers to that particular onion, and we're definitely going to |
| 1:16.4 | start peeling some back as we go along here, but suffice it to say, there have been many |
| 1:20.6 | compelling testimonies from the cast and crew over the years that indicate Toby Hooper's |
| 1:24.9 | directorial credit was indeed only ceremonial, and that it was Spielberg, |
| 1:28.9 | who was actually calling the shots. There's probably never going to be a definitive answer to this |
| 1:33.2 | mystery, but at this point, I think it's at least safe to say that where there's smoke, there's fire. |
| 1:37.6 | The other rumor that is dogged this franchise is that the entire series of films is cursed. |
| 1:42.4 | Some of that has to do with several unusual incidents |
| 1:44.8 | that took place during production, but most of the controversy centers around the untimely |
| 1:48.9 | deaths of several of the actors. But gossip and urban legends aside, Poltergeist was an |
| 1:53.9 | enormous critical and commercial hit. You can often measure just how large a mark |
| 1:58.1 | something has made on pop culture by taking a look at how many |
| 2:01.2 | parodies, sequels, spin-offs, and remakes it inspired. Poultergeist can certainly check all of |
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