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	Poltergeist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to yet another opinion, ghosts and poltergeists are "recordings." When there is a powerful emotion, sometimes at death and sometimes not, a recording is believed to be "embedded" in a place or, somehow, in the "fabric of time" itself.
		The Mackenzie Poltergeist (fairly recent) - Famed for haunting Greyfriars church yard, Edinburgh, UK The Canneto di Caronia fires poltergeist (fairly recent (2004 - 2005)) - Famed for defying all attempts at a scientific explanation, Sicily, Italy [2].
		The first Poltergeist movie actually gave an excellent depiction (during the first half of the film) of a "typical" poltergeist infestation, right down to the depiction of the focus as a prepubescent girl.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poltergeist (1446 words)

	Poltergeist (film series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Poltergeist movies are a trilogy of horror films produced in the 1980s.
		The movie ends with the family checking into a Holiday Inn for the night, pushing the television set outside their room.
		Poltergeist is inspired partially from the fiction of H.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poltergeist_movies (2217 words)

	Poltergeists - Crystalinks
		Poltergeist phenomena is a focus of study within parapsychology (a discipline which does not have wide acceptance within the mainstream scientific community).
		Another version of the poltergeist is the "wrath version." When a person dies in a powerful rage at the time of death, that person is believed by some to come back to fulfill that vengeance.
		According to yet another opinion, ghosts and poltergeists are "recordings." When there is a powerful emotion, sometimes at death and sometimes not, a recording is believed to be embedded into the fabric of time, and this recording will continue to play over and over again until the energy embedded disperses.
	www.crystalinks.com /poltergeists.html (992 words)

	Seaford Poltergeist: Pratt, Popper, Herrmann Family
		The two movie made famous by the two separate movie series are a few minutes drive from each other.
		A poltergeist (German for noisy ghost) is an invisible entity that moves objects and causes electrical malfunctions by telekinesis.
		Poltergeister (German plural) are mischievous beings, and connected to an object (usually a building) or a person.
	truelegends.info /amityville/poltergeist_2.htm (856 words)

	USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - Poltergeist
		Poltergeist -- Suburban couple (Jobeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson) find their cosy existence disturbed when their five-year-old daughter gets trapped in the television screen and a parapsychologist (Beatrice Straight) is called in to retrieve her.
		The following movies have been evaluated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's Office for Film and Broadcasting according to artistic merit and moral suitability.
		The movie review line is updated each Friday and includes information about six theater releases and a Family Video of the Week.
	www.usccb.org /movies/p/poltergeist1982.shtml (216 words)

	Poltergeist (1982) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Poltergeist had a screen credit of being directed by Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), but history has revealed that it was Spielberg's vision, editing and overall command of the shooting that was really behind the making of this extraordinary film.
		At first, the family meets the strange happenings in the home with playful pleasure, but in an instant the poltergeists intentions turn against the Freelings, and their daughter is captured and taken back to the supernatural world where communication is possible only through the bedroom television.
		A closet full of strobe lights are all that is required to convince us that it is a portal to another world and a fan gently blowing the hair of mother Williams' is believable as the spirit of her child flying past her.
	imdb.com /title/tt0084516 (1104 words)

	Poltergeist The Legacy: Season 1 - DVD review
		The first real poltergeist story is the b-plot to The Twelfth Cave (the fifth episode after the pilot) where Alex investigates a haunted house - as though someone on the writing team suddenly remembered what the title was and hurriedly added this rather dull addition to the main storyline.
		Poltergeists are not really going to do much but cause your lights to blow (unless you buy a house built on a graveyard, or ancient Indian burial ground).
		Poltergeist: The Legacy's first season is not without its merits.
	www.sci-fi-online.50megs.com /2006_Reviews/dvd/06-03-27_PoltergeistLegacy.htm (1723 words)

	POLTERGEIST:
		There’s an eerie parade of poltergeists in chiffons of light marching down the Freelings staircase to the climactic scene as a huge, bright, nuclear-colored mouth strives to suck the Freeling children into their closet.
		Every movie is forced to set up boundaries of believability through certain actions and concepts and at one point these boundaries will be accepted by the viewer.
		Unlike most horror movies that have unfeasible killers who are incapable of dying or monsters that pop out of people’s stomachs, Poltergeist focuses on the supernatural -- a subject with very wide boundaries.
	www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~rrojas/scott.html (1286 words)

	)E)YESCREAM - Movies • Film Facts: The Poltergeist Curse
		James Khan who wrote the novelisation of the movie claims that one night, as he typed the words "Thunder and lightning ripped the sky," a blast of lightning hit his building and blew the cover off an air conditioning unit with enough force to hit him in the back.
		Poltergeist and E.T. were released a week apart in June of 1982.
		The same effect was used later in the movie during the scene showing video playback of the ghosts.
	www.escendi.com.au /eyescream/movies/polt.html (751 words)

	more news bytes
		It was released by MGM/UA in the summer of 1982, that movie came out a week apart from Spielberg's E.T. They both offered the kind of "popcorn pleasure" Steven remembered getting from the movies when he was young.
		That movie begins with a family moving into a new house in the suburbs and finding that the house is haunted.
		Poltergeist also shows something else that Steven thinks is important in his movies.
	members.tripod.com /PoltergeistGuru/articles/newsbytes2.html (1189 words)

	Poltergeist News
		Teen queen Hilary Duff is set to scare her fans as the possible star of the next 'Poltergeist' movie.
		Well, it's not quite as lofty as it sounds, assures Williams, whose film career has taken her from The Big Chill to two Poltergeist movies to the role of Drew Barrymore's mother in the current Fever Pitch.
		Sad fates have befallen many kid stars of horror flicks, like "Poltergeist" cutie Heather O'Rourke, who died at age 13, and her co-star Dominique Dunne, who was murdered by her boyfriend on her 23rd birthday.
	www.topix.net /movies/poltergeist (553 words)

	Poltergeist Movie -The 80s Rewind «
		Poltergeist hit the theaters on June 4th, 1982 and immediately became one of the best horror movies of the 80s, if not of all time.
		During all the horrors that proceeded while filming Poltergeist, the only scene that really scared Heather was the one in which she had to hold onto the headboard while the wind machine blew her toys into the closet behind her.
		Unfortunately, the interior of the real Poltergeist house differs dramatically from the movie set confirming that the interior of the house was never used.
	www.fast-rewind.com /polter.htm (1459 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Movies (Poltergeist Deaths)
		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.
		(As to what the word itself means, a poltergeist is a noisy and destructive (but usually mischievous, not malicious) ghost held to be responsible for unexplained noises and movement of objects within a home.
		An extreme version of the "curse" rumor asserts that everyone who appeared in these movies is now dead.
	www.snopes.com /movies/films/polter.htm (970 words)

	Poltergeist the TV Series
		Heather O'Rourke only made 3 movies in her short life, this one and the 2 sequels (following 2 descriptions are from TV Guide).
		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.
		All three Poltergeist movies in a row were shown on Monstervision, but I didn't keep the host segments/review for 2 & 3.
	www.angelfire.com /mn/nnn/Poltergeist.html (1112 words)

	Poltergeist
		Frisky poltergeists put a little excitement into the daily routine of the Freeling family's humdrum lives by moving furniture and communicating with their youngest daughter, Carol Anne, through the television set.
		Poltergeist is like a thoroughly enjoyable nightmare, one that you know that you can always wake up from, and one in which, at the end, no one has permanently been damaged.
		Poltergeist works -- and works extraordinarily well -- because it shows us the horrors of beyond coming to haunt us not in a moldering house on a hill or a grimy dungeon but rather in a gleaming, modern, comfortable suburban housing development.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/poltergeist (610 words)

	The Poltergeist (Poltergiest) Movie Curse - was there a curse on these 80s movies?
		Sadly, there are at least four deaths associated with Poltergeist I, Poltergeist II (The Other Side) and Poltergeist III.
		1982: Dominique Dunn who played the older sister in the first Poltergeist movie was murdered by her ex-lover shortly after the film's release (and no it wasn't on set).
		Typically there are hundreds of people that work on a movie and apart from the four deaths, the remaining main actors, directors and producers from all three films are still alive and kicking almost 20 years after the movies started to appear.
	www.eightyeightynine.com /film/poltergeist.html (572 words)

	"Poltergeist" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		From a Christian perspective, this movie is probably average or a little better than average.
		Overall, I'd say that this is a rare movie; it's very entertaining, not TOO scary for the young teens, but yet still plenty frightening for the adults.
		The whole last half of the movie is very disturbing, and seems to contradict itself all over the place.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2001/poltergeist.html (705 words)

	Poltergeist II: The Other Side Movie -The 80s Rewind «
		Poltergeist II was released May 23, 1986 receiving mixed reviews from the critics and great box-office success taking in $40,000,000 in it's opening weekend in the US.
		I have always regarded this Movie as a decent follow up with it's flaws (which it is) and can still not understand how this movie made it's way from a running time close to "131 minutes" down to a mere "87".
		Some of this movie's editing is really poor and it's a shame because the movie is actually pretty good and only really falls apart at the end when you can see how bad a hack job this movie really received regarding the ending battle with Kane which lasts about "2 minutes".
	www.fast-rewind.com /polterii.htm (1202 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Poltergeist III (1988)
		Poltergeist III starts blandly but inoffensively enough, but by the time it ends -- finally and mercifully -- all sense has long since been abandoned.
		Consider a scene where a teenager is hypnotized so he can be asked a question it would have been simple enough just to ask him outright.
		The worst part is the most forgiveable: the insidious and incomprehensible ending was rewritten to exclude Carol Anne after Heather O'Rourke, the actress who played her in all three Poltergeist movies, died from an undiagnosed intestinal blockage.
	rinkworks.com /movies/m/poltergeist.iii.1988.shtml (115 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Poltergeist
		The cast of Poltergeist II apparently feared they would be cursed because part of the film was shot in an ancient Indian burial ground.
		Movie on the TV in an early bedroom scene is _A Guy Named Joe_ (1943), a film about a pilot who returns to the world as a ghost.
		In that movie the fragrance of a mimosa signaled the arrival of a spirit.
	fusionanomaly.net /poltergeist.html (1183 words)

	Poltergeist III (1988) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For the 3rd installment in the Poltergeist series only Heather O'rourke (Carol Anne) and Zelda Rubinstein (Tangina) are hold overs from the original cast.
		Though the special effects were somewhat interesting this movie suffers from a bad script and bad acting highlighted by the actor who plays Dr. Seaton, who may have given the worst acting performance ever.
		A double for Heather is used to shoot the final scenes of the movie which creates an odd and choppy ending.
	imdb.com /title/tt0095889 (498 words)

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		Front: Poltergeist I - A picture with the TV screen filled with static [in the movie] and on the back it has some of the cast members in light text with a background picture of the neighborhood of hell over the cemetary.
		Typically, items from Poltergeist 1 are worth the most, with the exception of the soundtracks.
		Poltergeist 2: 10-15 bucks for the 35 minute version, 80-199 for the extended version.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Set/8476/stuff.html (1013 words)

	Poltergeist III.com
		In "Poltergeist III," the character of Kane is played by Nathan Davis, replacing the late Julian Beck, who originated the role in the second of the "Poltergeist" films.
		Heather was discovered by Steven Spielberg for "Poltergeist" in the MGM commissary while lunching with her mother and older sister, Tammy, who was filming "Pennies From Heaven." Although Heather had never taken acting lessons, she had appeared in numerous commercials, including a long-running McDonald's spot and Mattel's "My First Barbie" campaign.
		During her first interview with Spielberg, who was to direct "Poltergeist," she giggled at the pink stuffed pig and fish presented to her, rather than being frightened as Spielberg wanted her to be.
	www.poltergeistiii.com /marketing.html (2995 words)

	Poltergeist 3 - Movie Info - Moviefone
		Synopsis: Evil spirits follow a young girl from the suburbs to the city in the second follow-up to the blockbuster horror film Poltergeist.
		Movie review of the horror film Poltergeist 3 starring Tom Skerritt/Bruce, Nancy Allen/Pat, Heather O'Rourke/Carol Ann.
		Poltergeist 3 - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /movie/poltergeist-3/1027577/main (164 words)

	Kiwibox.com - Articles - Teen Magazine for Music, Entertainment, Games, Fashion and more
		It’s a movie that was made halfway through Steven Spielberg's career when most of us kiwis were just being born, yet that doesn't stop people of all ages from loving it.
		The movie tells the story of one typical family that has a not so typical guest, a demon that can't pass into the other world unless he is lead there by an innocent child.
		This was Heather's first movie role and her big blue eyes and long white-blonde hair are powerful enough to prove to the audience why Heather was the one the demon wanted to lead him into 'the light'.
	www.kiwibox.com /article.asp?a=13519 (593 words)

	Poltergeist - Movie Info - Moviefone
		Poltergeist -The 1982 horror movie featuring Heather O'Rourke and Jobeth Williams at the award winning 80s Movies Rewind.
		The Poltergeist (Poltergiest) Movie Curse - was there a curse on...
		Poltergeist - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /movie/poltergeist/613/main (171 words)

	E! Online - E! TV - "E! True Hollywood Story" - Poltergeist - Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Although Steven Spielberg received credits for writing and producing the movie, he is also acknowledged as the film's unofficial director and editor.
		James Khan wrote the novelization of the movie.
		One night, as he typed the words "Thunder and lightning ripped the sky," a blast of lightning hit his building and blew the cover off an air conditioning unit with enough force to hit him in the back.
	www.eonline.com /On/Holly/Shows/Poltergeist/facts.html (402 words)

	what's new? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		June 14, 2003 ~ News From Suburbia has been updated with news about the Poltergeist II/Poltergeist III dvd.
		June 7, 2003 ~ There is now a flash movie in my intro page.
		Now there are pages on 'God is in His holy temple,' Miller beer jingle, the Poltergeist inspired song 'Shining,' and the national anthem of the United States of America 'Star Spangled Banner.'
	members.tripod.com /PoltergeistGuru/new.html (140 words)

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