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Nelson’s primary worry was a scene in which he had to rescue their son from a knotted old tree that comes to life and tries to swallow him.
“It was terrible. They made this tree and they put thorns in it—it was crazy,” he says. “It was a rubber tree, but at the same time you’re climbing up there, and you’re going, Why? Did the tree really need to have thorns on it? I mean, couldn’t you have done it with nice little pillow things when you crawl up, and they look like [thorns]?”
He remembers asking a lot of strange questions on the Poltergeist set, like during a scene in which a fresh steak appears suddenly to be rotten. “I remember asking the prop guys a lot of things. ‘Where did you get maggots? Where do you order maggots from? Is that something that’s on your truck all the time?’”
The Parents’ Secret Stash
Diane and Steve Freeling were a modern couple despite living what now looks like a retro-traditional life. Ozzie and Harriet of the early ’80s, but less self-assured. The
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Spielberg, Hooper and ‘Poltergeist’: How Auteur Theory Cursed a Classic
Jun 2, 2022
I am sick of people suggesting Steven Spielberg directed Poltergeist and not Tobe Hooper.
It’s been forty years and this shadow still towers over one of Tobe Hooper’s greatest accomplishments.
Why we don’t universally celebrate this late-horror icon for directing not one, but TWO revolutionary horror films is one of the most annoyingly enduring bio conspiracy theories of all time. And it seems like every six months it gets drudged up again.
Well, on the eve of the movie’s 40th anniversary, I’m here to try to put it to rest for good.
So, why am I — a burgeoning filmmaker who was born two years after Poltergeist was even released — the right person to expound on this topic?
In all fairness I’m probably not. But…
I have spent the gods several years as the producer of the POST MORTEM podcast where we meet a
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Poltergeist (1982 film)
1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper
Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais, and Mark Victor from a story by Spielberg. It stars JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, and Beatrice Straight, and was produced by Spielberg and Frank Marshall. The film focuses on a suburban family whose home is invaded by malevolent ghosts that abduct their youngest daughter.
As Spielberg was contractually unable to direct another film while he made E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hooper was selected based on his work on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Funhouse. The origin of Poltergeist can be traced to Night Skies, which Spielberg conceived as a horror sequel to his 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Hooper was less interested in the sci-fi elements and suggested they collaborate on a ghost story.[3] Accounts differ as to the