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| M O V I E information |
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Title................................: Poltergeist
Writer...............................: Steven Spielberg
Director.............................: Tobe Hooper
Release year.........................: 1982
Language.............................: English
Runtime..............................: 114 min
Genre................................: Horror / Thriller
Color................................: Color (Metrocolor)
IMDb rating..........................: 7.4/10
Link 1...............................:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084516/
Source (DVD/DVDR 5,9)..................: DVD 5
Total movie's files size...............: 1.36GB
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| Video Attribute |
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File Format..........................: AVI
Video compression mode...............: XviD
TV system (NTSC/PAL).................: NTSC
Aspect ratio.........................: 1.320
Source picture resolution............: 528 x 400
Frame rate...........................: 23.976 fps
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| Audio Attribute |
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Audio coding mode....................: AC3
Sampling rate........................: 48KHz
Number of audio channels.............: 6
Bitrate..............................: 384 Kbps
Audio stream language/s..............: English
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| Plot summary |
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A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorise the family before they "kidnap" the youngest daughter.
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| Release note |
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This is the fullscreen version, with 5.1 audio.
Actors:
Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
What a combo! Tobe Hooper, the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, teamed up with family-oriented producer Steven Spielberg to make Poltergeist. The film is about a haunted suburban tract home in a development very much like the Arizona one in which Spielberg was raised. (Because it came out the same summer as Spielberg's E.T., it was tempting to see both movies as representing Spielberg's ambivalent feelings about childhood in suburbia. One was a fantasy, the other a nightmare.) Spielberg also cowrote the screenplay, which taps into primal, childlike fears of monsters under the bed, monsters in the closet, sinister clown faces, and all manner of things that go bump in the night. At first, some of the odd happenings in the house are kind of funny and amusing, but they grow gradually creepier until the film climaxes in a terrifying special-effects extravaganza when 5-year-old Carole Anne (Heather O'Rourke) is kidnapped by the spooks and held hostage in another dimension. Though not nearly as frightening as Hooper's magnum opus, or the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, which came along two years later, Poltergeist is one of the smartest and most entertaining horror pictures of its time. --Jim Emer
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