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WHAT WENT WRONG

Poltergeist

WHAT WENT WRONG

Sad Boom Media

Acting, Film History, History, Movie, Disaster, Directing, Blockbuster, Film, Hollywood, Flop, Tv & Film

4.84.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We’re hee-eere… with an episode that explores how cutting costs on some ghastly props may have been the cause of an enduring curse that spanned Poltergeist, all of its sequels, and even its 2015 reboot. This week join Chris & Lizzie as they dig deep into the bizarre events and numerous deaths that followed the franchise.

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to What Went Wrong.

0:22.6

Your favorite podcast on What Went Wrong on some of Hollywood's biggest flops and most

0:27.7

surprising successes. As always, I am Chris Winterbauer here with Lizzie Bassett. Lizzie, how

0:34.4

you doing this week? I'm doing great because we finally got to watch a movie that I genuinely

0:38.9

really like for this episode. Very true. I love this movie as well. It gave me nightmares as a child.

0:46.6

I watched it when I was way too young. My dad was like, oh, it's just, it's like I have more of

0:51.4

like a ghost comedy. No, it's terrifying. Lizzie, tell us what we're talking about this week.

0:57.3

Well, first, Chris, I'd just like to play a little clip.

1:01.0

It's set up a bit. You move the cemetery, but you left the bodies. It's just set up a

1:07.5

bit. You left the bodies and you only move the head stones. You only move the head stones.

1:16.5

Craig T Nelson on PCB, ladies and gentlemen. No, that is Craig T Nelson in the

1:20.8

1982 horror classic poltergeist. That is what we are talking about today. And folks,

1:26.5

just when you thought you've heard us talk about Steven Spielberg enough, we pull you back

1:30.7

in like the demonic clown doll from the hell mouth in your closet because yes, he is a featured

1:35.3

player in today's episode as well. Chris, you just watched the movie. I know you've seen it before.

1:41.4

What's your experience with poltergeist? Excellent movie holds up in my opinion. A lot of the

1:46.8

effects hold up really well. Things I loved. The movie just, you jump right in. I forgot that

1:53.7

Carol Ann just starts talking to the team right from the get go. They're not wasting any time.

1:58.8

Really fun. Just has that great kind of campy 1980s feel. I thought it held up really well. I

2:05.5

thought a lot of the effects held up really well. It's still scary. The clown doll still scares me,

2:10.5

terrified me as a child. The thing that really struck me upon rewatching it that I think is so smart

2:17.2

and I didn't really think about when I first seen this movie when I was younger is that by setting

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