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	Poltergeist film series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Freddie Fields and Lynn Arost co-produced the second film, and the third film was co-produced by Barry Bernardi.
		In the first and most successful film (released on June 4, 1982), a group of seemingly benign ghosts begin communicating with five-year-old Carol Anne Freeling in her parents' suburban California home via static on the television.
		The second film begins with the discovery of this cave by a ground crew, and its existence is revealed to Tangina Barron, the psychic from the first film that "cleaned" the house that is now missing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poltergeist_film_series (2217 words)

	Filmtracks: Poltergeist II: The Other Side (Jerry Goldsmith)
		Goldsmith added five new themes to the two that are repeated from the first film, with each of the new characters represented by a strong thematic voice.
		By the end of the score, your mind boggles with the amount of diversity in the motifs and themes for the film, and this is both the strength and weakness of the score.
		Even in the film's return to the old house lot, Goldsmith fails to bring his brass to a rolling boil as he had done so well in the first score.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/poltergeist2.html?page=print (1291 words)

	Poltergeist II: The Other Side
		While not a terrible film, not at all, the film's greatest enemy is that it's a sequel to a modern classic.
		Poltergeist I was, in my humble opinion, the best haunted house film ever made, with a top-notch family dynamic, pacing, musical score, attitude, sense of humor, special effects, and and some of the world's best child acting, by the greatest director of children ever, Steven Spielberg.
		This film has one of the most effective mirror scares I've ever seen, mostly because we are distracted by the annoyingly bad acting of the two child stars right before we see a bunch of rotting corpses reaching out for them.
	www.xmission.com /~tyranist/horror/reviews/p/Poltergeist2.html (703 words)

	Poltergeist: The Legacy Revival @ Slacker's Sci-Fi Source - A Universe of Science Fiction
		Poltergeist: The Legacy is a drama starring Helen Shaver (Desert Hearts, Tremors II, The Craft) and Derek DeLint (Three Men And A Baby, Deep Impact, Stealing Heaven).
		The series is based on paranormal activity, which is being investigated by a group known as The Legacy.
		Each story is unique and intriguing but the series was never based on the series of Poltergeist films (similar to a previous show Friday The 13th: The Series which had nothing to do with the film series).
	www.whataslacker.com /scifi/news/poltergeist_revival.shtml (507 words)

	Poltergeist—the score
		A key to Goldsmith's success is his ability to get inside the fabric of a film, discern what its essential sound should be, and translate that creative impulse into music that will meet its dramatic needs.
		Films that indulge in fantastic imagery rely to an extraordinary degree on their music not only to involve the viewer, but also to lend an aura of credibility to the otherwise incredible events unfolding onscreen.
		In the case of Poltergeist, Goldsmith's score was crucial in establishing the quiet suburban locale, the innocence of the abducted child, the malevolence of the forces on the other side, and the ultimate triumph of good over evil.
	members.tripod.com /PoltergeistGuru/stk/ps3.html (1224 words)

	SpielbergFilms.com - Poltergeist
		Although volumes have been written on the subject, poltergeists still remain an unexplainable phenomenon –– a fact that captured the imagination of Steven Spielberg, whose previous films have captivated millions with their gripping reality and dazzling adventures.
		Add to this "Poltergeist" formula a cadre of special effects artists, including Academy Award winner Richard Edlund ("Star Wars," "The Empire Strikes Back," "Raiders of the Lost Ark") and the technicians of George Lucas' optical effects house, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) and the combination promises to have moviegoers on the edge of their seats.
		Spielberg allows that there are some similarities between "Poltergeist" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." "I never believed that UFOs were antagonistic phenomena," he says, "I always thought that they were something wondrous and hopeful.
	www.spielbergfilms.com /poltergeisthome.html (425 words)

	Austin Film Society :: Texas Film Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		Recently lauded for her roles in films such as 1996's THE APOSTLE and 2001's DR. T AND THE WOMEN, Farrah Fawcett is as vibrant and memorable an actress as Texas has ever produced.
		This no-budget independent film with a largely amateur cast and a macabre script was an instant classic and made Hooper a master of the genre.
		The film broke stereotypes even as it embellished others and was the first to make intelligent use of rock & roll as a narrative device in the soundtrack.
	www.austinfilm.org /tfhof/tfhof2003.php (1090 words)

	Filmtracks: Poltergeist (Jerry Goldsmith)
		Most of the scenes that encompass direct contact with the poltergeists are scored very loudly with heavy brass.
		Frankly, these moments can be annoying, although the scene in which Carol Anne's first rescue occurs is scored brilliantly with pulsating urgency (as viewers are led to believe that it is the climax of the film --but we all know that those pesky poltergeists come back for another try...).
		Finally, Carol Anne's Theme (the main theme of the film) is a wonderfully conceived children's lullaby that appears with a 16-member girls choir over the end credits (I was caught by surprise when I heard the end of that track, by the way...
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/poltergeist.html?page=print (449 words)

	Poltergeist \| Classic Movie and TV Reviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		Poltergeist, which came out the same summer as Spielberg's E.T., is very much a product of its time.
		The film itself is notable for the patience with which it builds from the smart sitcom coziness of the early scenes to the SFX terrors that come later.
		The Poltergeist series is also infamous for its "curse," which includes a number of serious mishaps during filming, and the deaths of several actors who appeared here or in the sequels.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/screen/classic/sfw12598.html (850 words)

	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- POLTERGEIST: THE LEGACY- SEASON 1
		Obviously, the series title is all about brand recognition, as if the series were named by someone in the marketing department at MGM.
		POLTERGEIST: THE LEGACY- SEASON 1 ($60) comes to DVD in a five-disc set that features all twenty-one episodes that were aired in the series first year.
		The film elements are free from excessive blemishes, but a grain structure is noticeable much of the time, but especially during darker sequences, which tend to be numerous in this type of program.
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_2006/poltergeist-tls1-dvd.htm (564 words)

	Amazon.ca: Poltergeist: 2/3: DVD: Brian Gibson,Gary Sherman,JoBeth Williams,Craig T. Nelson,Heather O'Rourke,Oliver ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		The third and final installment to the "Poltergeist" trilogy, where young Carol-Anne (Heather O' Rourke's last role) is shipped off to Chicago to spend the summer with her aunt (Nancy Allen) and uncle (Tom Skerrit) and also to be examined and tested on by professionals who are studying her "gift".
		Poltergeist II was my favorite of the 3 and definitely one of the best of all time.
		Poltergeist has scared me since I was a small child, and Poltergeist II is definitely as good as the original, if not better.
	www.amazon.ca /Poltergeist-2-3-Brian-Gibson/dp/B00009PY4G (2793 words)

	Poltergeist III.com
		Since the release of the third film in 1988, there have been several rumors of a possible "Poltergeist IV." With the poor box office success of P3, the death of Heather O'Rourke, and the superstitions of the "poltergeist curse," it is unlikely there will be a fourth film.
		Horowitz on production of the series, but because MGM owned the rights, it was their decision not to greenlight the project, and the proposed "Poltergeist" TV series died.
		I actually considered what I would do if writing a 4th film, and I thought perhaps the best thing would be to have Carol Anne grown up, but have her face a new group of ghosts (since by the end of 3, the conflict with Kane was pretty much stretched thin).
	www.poltergeistiii.com /poltergeistIV.html (2912 words)

	Amazon.ca: Poltergeist (Widescreen/Full Screen): DVD: Tobe Hooper,Craig T. Nelson,JoBeth Williams,Beatrice ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		Poltergeist is also one of the dumbest movies to be made because there is no way a family would stay in a house AFTER chairs pile up on the table and they hear voices at night.
		This film is one of the most stylish, devilishly entertaining horror films of the past quarter century, using superb special effects, fine performances, and an elegantly humorous screenplay as a springboard to portray the terror of restless spirits.
		In the film, The Freelings, a young couple and their three children are terrorized by spectral entities that exist within the spirit world, yet manifest themselves in their home (most notably through the conduit of the television).
	www.amazon.ca /Poltergeist-Widescreen-Full-Screen-Hooper/dp/0792833201 (3047 words)

	Film Festivals . com - People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		In the film, it is the mother who sees the film first and then her son watches it [not by accident, though, as Reiko's dead sister commands him to!]
		Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a good friend of mine, we worked together on a horror TV series, a ghost story in a girls' school [a late Japanese trend from which the Korean films Whispering Corridors and Memento Mori are derived] But we didn't talk about the images of the cursed film so much.
		The film is about his daily relationships with the crew, the actors, etc. It's a very human film about the movie world.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs/filinfo&Cfg=news.cfg&news=interview&text_id=17147 (1253 words)

	Series Movies Arts
		Five series, 10 movies later, and the 11th is set to goCarlisle Sentinel, PA - 22 hours ago...
		Film series kicks off new season of classicsTCU Daily Skiff, TX - 5 hours agoThis film series, which features movies from various eras between 1930 and 1985 each semester, is open to the public, said Joan McGettigan, associate professor...
		Reflecting on this series of paintings, Brown admitted it was strange for her to get political with the brush.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Arts/Movies/Series (337 words)

	Poltergeist the TV Series
		Although the film moves along at a rapid clip, it is poorly constructed and haphazardly executed.
		The brainchild of writer-director Gary Sherman (who had the project dumped in his lap by the studio), POLTERGEIST III shifts the focus of the series from the suburbs to the city, setting the action in a newly constructed, state-of-the-art high-rise complex in Chicago full of shops, offices, and apartments.
		POLTERGEIST stars seem to have been cursed over the years--Dominique Dunne, Will Sampson, and Julian Beck all died after appearing in installments of the series.
	www.angelfire.com /mn/nnn/Poltergeist.html (1112 words)

	Amazon.com: Poltergeist: DVD: Tobe Hooper,Craig T. Nelson,JoBeth Williams,Beatrice Straight,Dominique Dunne,Oliver ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		The film is about a haunted suburban tract home in a development very much like the Arizona one in which Spielberg was raised.
		Perhaps it's true that all the knock-offs through the years have dulled the edge of this film, but it does not obscure the fact that it's extremely "family-friendly" setting (for which Speilberg is definitely the culprit) neuters it's ghost story atmosphere and setting.
		Fans of the film have assumed that the laughing children arethose who have been released from the beast and have cro...
	www.amazon.com /Poltergeist-Tobe-Hooper/dp/0792833201 (2164 words)

	Science Fiction Films
		The first film in the series depicted a post-apocalyptic, post-nuclear futuristic planet (Earth) - revealed in the film's startling conclusion by a half-submerged Statue of Liberty.
		Other futuristic films were produced in the 1970s and 1980s, many with the effects of technology run amok - whether it was faults in human-tinkering technology or social engineering, or robot theme parks with aberrant androids.
		Similar films featured cyborgs as crime-fighting cops of the future in industrial wastelands, such as in Paul Verhoeven's first film RoboCop (1987) (a variation of the classic Frankenstein (1931)) and its lesser, imitative sequels in 1990 and 1991.
	www.filmsite.org /sci-fifilms5.html (1986 words)

	Spielberg didn't direct this movie. - SpielbergFilms.com Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		There is no other production that bears Spielberg's stamp as producer in which he was as involved as he was in "Poltergeist." It is his film, plain and simple.
		There's a brutality in Spielberg's films dating all the way back to "Jaws" that so many tend to overlook, as if Spielberg can only be all light and optimism.
		Poltergeist is a Toby Hooper film and I don't think Steven Spielberg would sabotage a director from his duties.
	spielbergfilms.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3949 (1431 words)

	iFMagazine.com Reviews - DVD Review: POLTERGEIST: THE LEGACY – SEASON ONE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		A decent TV series with the same name as a film is worth checking out but don’t expect any good special features.
		POLTERGEIST: THE LEGACY is the story of a secret society called “The Legacy” much like the Free Masons or the Knights Templar who use their knowledge to fight evil throughout the world.
		POLTERGEIST: THE LEGACY is surprisingly extremely popular even today with message boards and chat rooms filling up to talk about the series despite not being on the air since 1999 (although you can check out an episode or two late at night on the SCI FI Channel).
	www.ifmagazine.com /review.asp?article=1147 (595 words)

	Beatrice Straight @ Filmbug UK
		She worked infrequently in television and cinema, and is remembered by film goers for two roles.
		Further film and television roles, such as the mother of Lynda Carter in the Wonder Woman series, did nothing to enhance her film career.
		She played the role of the paranormal investigator, Dr Lesh in the film Poltergeist (1982), the most widely seen role of her film career.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/58847 (258 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Movies (Poltergeist Deaths)
		In a popular form of the rumor, one of the child actors is said to have come to an untimely end after the making of each film, one murdered, one in a car accident, and one of a mysterious disease.
		Each recounts an episode in the lives of the Freelings, a fictitious family who have the bad luck to take up residence in homes inhabited by spirits intent upon kidnapping their kids or to send their kids to live in such places.
		The other two deaths were of seasoned actors well into their careers, both suffering from serious illnesses that would in time take their lives.
	www.snopes.com /movies/films/polter.htm (970 words)

	ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
		Prior to "Poltergeist II," Beck's most recent accomplishments included an appearance in "The Cotton Club" for director Francis Coppola, multiple appearances on the daytime drama, "All My Children," and an episode of "Miami Vice" which aired during the 1985-86 television season.
		In addition, he recently narrated a PBS film series, "Images of the Indian," which examines stereotyping of the American Indian in the motion picture industry.
		"Poltergeist II" is the distinguished actress' forty-third motion picture, in a screen career that began over five decades ago with "Open All Night." Her American movie career began with "Dark Victory" in 1939, in which she joined Bette Davis, George Brett and Humphrey Bogart.
	members.tripod.com /PoltergeistGuru/press/p2pk6.html (1671 words)

	Film series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A film series is a collection of related films in succession.
		As individual sequels are common, they will not be included here.
		This page was last modified 11:45, 24 August 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film_series (74 words)

	Spaced Out - Episode Guides - Series One - Episode Three
		Daisy's world is rocked by the prospect of employment, when she receives notification of a job interview for a writing position on a fashionable magazine.
		The point of the scene is of course, that Tim is lost in the game 'Resident Evil 2' but the real inspiration for both this scene and the 'Resident Evil' series, are George A. Romero's seminal zombie trilogy.
		The man listening to Daisy and Tim's conversation supposed to be Gene Hackman as Harry Call, from the classic 1974 Coppola film, 'The Conversation'.
	www.spaced-out.org.uk /episode-guides/series-one/official/e3.shtml (382 words)

	The Grudge (film review) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-21)
		The American version, which plays like a disjointed series of Poltergeist off cuts, is a drab urban horror movie in which the entire cast appears to be sedated on downers.
		Enlisting the always dispensable Sarah Michelle Gellar as the American draw card, Shimizu and her crew of fear fiddlers quickly find themselves in a creative rut in which a deliberating atmosphere quickly transforms into a debilitating and exhausting experience.
		Like her character she seems to be constantly struggling to come to terms with her predicament, juggling her options, wondering which way to scrunch her forehead or which door to run out of first.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/thegrudge.htm (509 words)

	5/13/05: Film Score Friday
		The AFI has sent a ballot listing 250 film scores to over 500 people in the film community to vote on the top 25 film scores of all time, selections from which will be performed at the concert by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra under the baton of John Mauceri.
		FILM SCORE: An original music composition written to serve as the dramatic underscore to an American film released in the sound era.
		LEGACY: Film Scores that are also enjoyed apart from the movie and evoking the memory of its film source, thus ensuring and enlivening both the music and the movie's historical legacy.
	www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2005/15_May---Film_Score_Friday.asp (1632 words)

	Poltergeist III: MGM Movie Time VCD Review
		The only other actress returning from the previous film is Zelda Rubinstein, who for reasons never made entirely clear has figured out what Kane really wants and prepares Carol Anne for her final battle on the other side.
		The film resorts to pseudo “Freddy Kruger” like effects for cheap scares, but by this time the series has already lost whatever soul was left over from the second film.
		The film is presented in a full-framed (1.33:1) aspect ratio that is surprisingly clean and clear with very little artifacts and absolutely no color bleeding.
	www.genreonline.net /Poltergeist3_VCD.html (298 words)

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