I understand the question of "why don't they close the curtains so he can't see the scary tree." I was exactly like this little boy when I was his age and the thing is, seeing it is scary, but NOT seeing it is somehow worse.
Rest in Peace, Dominque Dunn and Heather O'Rourke. Dominique Dunn played the oldest daughter Dana and Heather O'Rourke played Carol Anne. Dominique Dunn's life ended at age 22 because her boyfriend strangled her. Heather O'Rourke passed away due to being misdiagnosed. She died from septic shock at age 12.
Sad about both. Unspeakable tragedies. Dominique's bf only got a few years for murdering her. Her brother, Griffin Dunn starred in American Werewolf in London and other movies. He had a pretty successful career.
Man you gotta understand this nightmare fuel was rated PG…which means my parents thought it was cool for 10-year-old me to watch on HBO. My generation had nightmares for months.
I watched this movie originally when I was 4 and it scared the shit out of me. But.... by the time I was 5 or 6... I think I realized it was silly as shit and more ridiculous than scary. 7 at the oldest. Some of the funniest movies I've ever seen were The Exorcist and The Blair Witch Project.
@@nooneofconsequence1251 You were tougher at 7 than I was at 10. I watched the movie all the time (heavy rotation on HBO) but it still gave me nightmares.
Not sure if anyone has told you this but that Star Spangled Banner song then the snowy screen happened EVERY NIGHT. That was part of life. Once it went snowy, your TV time was over, period.
I swear I almost feel like anyone born even one second later than myself could never understand the broadcast going off for the night. Is that not weird, does anyone else feel that way?
I LOVE that you're reacting to horror ANYTIME. I love when channels do lots of horror during October but on the same hand I hate when that's the only time they give attention to horror. I feel like it should be part of the lineup all year round alongside all other genres. We enjoy the variety and horror reactions can sometimes be the most fun to watch!
We were the last generation of feral children. We speak 2 languages... real talk and sarcasm. F around and find out. Not impressed with Millennials and Gen Z. What you got? Bring it on. You will lose. HOWEVER, yes sir, clowns suck. We don't play with that sh!t. 🤣
Plus there's the uncanny thing. Why some people are afraid of mannequins, dolls, shadows or anything that only that's close to being human but not quite there. It leaves the body on potential danger mode.
For the kitchen chair swap gag, this was a great practical effect. As Tobe Hooper described, it took exactly 4.0 seconds for the crew to swap those out. crew members were hiding under the counter and on the left side of the camera. As soon as Diane moved out of framed, they went into action. If you watch the scene again, you see a reflection of the crew in the corner of the toaster and someone bumps into the plant in the corner.
The parents are THE BEST. Pot-smoking, silly people, still in love with each other and who genuinely care for their kids. I also love JoBeth Williams, how she gets a little excited when she jumps up and down, moves in the kitchen when she realized that her husband was seeing what she was seeing. Also, fun little fact with the actress JoBeth Williams. The skeletons in the pool with her were real skeletons. She didn't find this out until after the filming. Basically, there's something so indescribable about the film and how it blends horror, humor, a sense of magical discovery with at the time a very unusual take with a more "realistic" take on ghost hunting. So damn good.
@@hollycook5046 He said HIS wife was 31. 32 sorry. He then said HIS eldest daughter was 16, not THEIR eldest daughter. So it could have been his 2nd wife. Which in the novelization it is. Although in the movie, Dana is on the phone late at night, stays with "friends" a lot, and remembers the Holiday Inn. So...
@@hollycook5046 Dana Freeling is the 16-year-old daughter of Steve and Diane and the older sister of Robbie and Carol Anne. Mom was 16 when she had Dana!
Stranger Things season 1 owes a huge debt to this film, which they specifically mentioned in the first episode: a child is abducted into some parallel dimension, but can still contact his mother using household technology. She eventually goes into a portal to the other side and brings him back.
Dude, imagine being in the 2nd grade, getting out of bed in the middle of the night and sneaking down into the living room to watch this with your 4th grade older brother when it first premiered on HBO
When the guy pulls his face apart, that's not the actor, it's Steven Spielberg. The prosthetic used for the effect was expensive and they needed to do this in one take. The actor was so afraid he'd mess it up somehow, so Spielberg did it for him.
The look on his face when he said, "The little girl's in the TV?" Lol, that is how we all felt when we watched this movie for the first time in the 1980s!
you really can count to see how close or far away a storm is. My grandma taught me that trick when I was little. They say this is one of those cursed films. Lot of crazy stuff happened on set and to some of the actors
I was 12 when this came out and it was the first horror film I saw in the theater (the show was sold-out). The audience reaction was amazing (everyone lost their shit when that guy tore his face off). I loved it so much I saw it twice that year. I saw THE EXORCIST on t.v. and that began my love of horror. Poltergeist definitely made my love for horror even stronger!!
The pool scene had REAL CORPSES.... please understand you won't see that today, but REAL dead people just showed up to be iconic actors in a great movie and they never knew.
Love this movie. Love your reactions thank you for the entertainment. To me this is one of the most realistic I know it’s weird to say in a movie like this one of the most realistic families ever on film seemed like they knew each other were normal and they loved each other. And I think you’ll understand this Mr. video. I have said for 30 years. This is one of the most honest portrayals of marijuana use. A happy, healthy, affluent, successful, amazing family and Yep they smoke weed. No drinking except when things got really dark. But day-to-day they smoke weed and they are an amazing successful, healthy family. I love it and this is 1982.
I didn’t like the sequel because it diminishes “The Beast” from being a powerful and evil demon (possibly even satan) to being a crazy old preacher. Julian Beck gave a great performance and was creepy but it should’ve been a different movie and not a sequel to Poltergeist.
When I was a kid my brother actually taught me that if you count however many seconds between seeing the lighting and hearing the thunder, it would tell you how close it is
Leo, I'm gonna be real with you... this movie scared the crap out of me as a kid. It didn't help that my Grandma had this and Aladdin recorded on the same VHS tape. Every time Aladdin ended I hurried up and rewinded it before the movie started like my life depended on it.
Scary Movie also referenced the clown pulling the boy under the bed. In Scary Movie it pulls 1 of the Wayne brothers under the bed but he had a surprise for the clown lol
I went to school for 2 years in a school built on an old cemetery. And they showed this movie to us in that building in 6th grade. The day we got out for break. Couldn't do that today. You blurred the best part, that bathroom sink scene had a the other kids going crazy. Great video.
This movie came out when I was 11. It scared me but it was so much fun! I loved it then and still do. And the lightning distance counting thing is a real thing. Since lighting is the source of thunder, it makes complete sense.
OMG, one of my favorite movies. First saw it not long after it came out in theaters only I saw it in a hotel room at the Hilton in Waikiki in Hawaii. The hotel with the Rainbow on the side. I was about 10 or 11. My parents went out for the night. I ordered the movie after they left. Funny thing is we lived on the island but often took vacations in Waikiki or island hopped as it was cheaper than traveling to the mainland or flying someplace further. The Hilton is actually a complex of hotels and they have ponds that connect them and come into the lobbies. They had a pair of swans. These swans loved me for some reason and followed me everywhere for a few days and were very friendly. I got so scared not even halfway through the movie I went to the lobby, called the swans and they followed me onto the elevator and to my room. Then I watched the movie- I called them Fred & Ethel, and ordered room service with the birds in my parents bed 😂. They were so shocked when they got home that night 😲. My dad ended up laughing and then made me take the birds back downstairs to the pond. I loved those birds. I always think of that when I see this movie. Both of my parents are gone now 😢.
29:47 seen. This movie 100 times and still agreed with miss lady ma'am with the glasses and ol kid voice to to go get my baby from the tv ppl.... And she the only one making any sense of this.... 🤔🤔🤔
This movie was cursed. So many bad things happened on set. Then afterward the actress that plays Carl Anne died from some crazy intestinal issue. Septic shock and cardiac arrest. The actress that plays the older sister thats absent throughout the main part of the movie and shows up at thend….She was murdered by her boyfriend right after making the movie.
There's a little bit of wordplay in the scene where they're fighting over which parent the kids are more threatened by. The dad's so reluctant to be seen as the "threatening" one that he warns Carol Ann if she doesn't answer him she's gonna get a real spanking. He could have stopped there, but he had to add, "from the BOTH of us,"
Dogs DO KNOW. Our dogs took some time getting used to the spirits in our house. At first theyd follow them around and get spooked when touched by them. One time the bigger dog actually jumped up from a dead sleep and jumped down from the chair and then just stared at the fuckin chair. They are used to it now and actually that dog likes to lay out in the hallway at night now. He lays on his back so Im pretty sure he gets ghost belly rubs throughout the night. Not joking either…
I'd just like to take a moment to say rest in peace to the actor of this film who most recently passed away, James Karen, who played the father's boss in this film. He was also in an amazing horror comedy from 1985 called The Return of The Living Dead.
Classic, brought to you by the director of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Salem's Lot (1977), which you should Also watch. The Dad would also eventually voice Mr Incredible.
One year before directing this film, the director made a horror film called "THE FUN HOUSE." It doesn't quite measure up to his other horror films, but that's a pretty high bar and it's an underrated gem that's worth checking out.
Dude, I love you more and more each day and the fact that you’re doing some horror movies when it in October even better always time for a horror movie especially this one. It is one of my all-time favorite horror movies keep it up bro you doing well.
BTW, there were REAL dead bodies in the pool with her. (And in the sequel too.) First time I watched this movie was in the early 90s in my unfinished basement on a beta vcr. It was an experience.
In Scary Movie 2, they spoof the tree attack scene too. the stoner Wayans bother had a marijuana plant in a flowerpot by the window. The plant grows huge, then grabs him, rolls him up into a blunt in his bedsheet, and stats smoking him.
One thing that always slides by reactors is that the mom character is 31 years old and they have a 16-year-old daughter, which means dad knocked her up when she was 14 or 15.
I always assumed she was his second wife and the oldest girl was a bonus child. Then again, a lot of us in Gen X were love children. Our parents were the "free love" crowd. :D
The second Poltergeist is pretty good! I really enjoy your response to this one, the scene with the guy ripping his face off deeply disturbed me and stuck with me for a few days after I first saw this movie.
I was 12 years old when this movie came out. I can remember waiting in line for tickets with my mom and my best friend. I didn’t sleep good for a week. Lol
I used to live in San Diego CA. There was a store at Sea Port Village and it was a clown store. They had the actual clown from the movie in there. This movie and that clown made me fall in love with the horror genre.
Poltergeist is the greatest Steven Spielberg film that was never directed by Spielberg. Also, this horror film is a classic that'll live forever. Great reaction Leo! 👍🏿
I still am not convinced that he didn't call so many shots he might as well have been directing. Every single frame of this film feels like a Spielberg movie, and none of them feel like a Hooper movie.
@JasonHauser125 Good point. I think that Universal Studios had Spielberg under some kind of contract that prevented him from directing Poltergeist or at least taking the credit for directing more than one film in the same year (1982) at that time. Obviously, he directed E.T. The Extraterrestrial. And Spielberg did everything regarding the production of Poltergeist except "directing" the movie. But, ever since 1989, Spielberg has been in the habit of putting out 2 movies in the same year. Like I said, I think the studio prevented Spielberg from taking the credit for directing Poltergeist, meanwhile giving sole directing credit to Hooper. And you're right. When you compare Poltergeist to the rest of Hooper's filmography, Poltergeist is nothing like his other films.
@@JamesASharp Really well said. None of the actors will talk about it, but a few members of the crew have confirmed Spielberg basically directed this, though Hooper was genuinely involved and did direct several scenes.
I thought I'd seen all of this movie, turns out I'd only seen the TV broadcast version, when I was watching a Patreon FULL LENGTH reaction a couple years ago that scene happened with that guy pulling his face off.... man I didn't think a gore scene could still scare me in my 30s anymore, but IT DID!
Yay, Yessss, Mr V. Love this movie, some major creepies in the films and surrounding the films. R.I.P. to all who passed. 4 actors in 6 yrs from the 3 films, which they called a curse.🕯🕯Thanx darlin', take care, Peace
This is my rainy, stormy day go to movie. Scared me to death when I saw it way back in the early 80's. I was only about 6 years old 😅. It didn't help that I don't like clowns either.
Since you mentioned it, a lot of elements in this movie inspired elements in _Stranger Things_ . Like the kid getting pulled into a creepy parallel dimension, the kid trying to talk to the parents through electronics, and the squicky portals. Also since Craig T. Nelson (the dad) also played Mr. Incredible, they referenced this film in _Incredibles 2_ when Jack-Jack could teleport to an alternate dimension and the rest of the family could still hear him. Anyway I love this movie, I only saw it for the first time a few years ago but it's become one of my favorites. It's neat to see how much it influenced the "family moves into a haunted house" subgenre of horror
I saw this movie on HBO shortly after it was in theaters. This was while I was spending the night at a friend's house and we were maybe 12, plus or minus a year. He had two beds, one on either side of his room. The guest bed was where he kept some stuffed animals, including a Curious George. I had put them on the floor when I went to bed. A scream woke me some time later. My friend was sitting up on his bed screaming. His parents ran in to see what happened. Turns out that George had landed against the bed like he was standing upright. Friend woke up and saw that by the light of the streetlight coming in the window. He called me and when I didn't answer he thought George had killed me, like the clown in the movie, and now it was coming for him. They got him settled down and took George out with them and we went back to sleep. At least I did, I'm not sure about friend.
Leo!!! Great pic! This movie still scares me of what could possibly happen if builders disrespect hallowed ground & the deceased who rest there. & I was 16 when this came out. 58 now.
Thunder is the sound of lightning and counting gives you an idea of how far away the lightning by timing how long the sound of the thunder takes to get to you. So if you can count longer it's further away. Idk who told me that first but we always did that as kids.
While researching my family history, I found that a cemetery in which a few of my ancestors were buried was relocated because it was too small. The cemetery was at the base of an escarpment, and a train track runs close to the escarpment’s edge. When the cemetery was being moved, it’s figured that not all of the bodies were moved, and some people have reported seeing weird shapes, possibly ghosts, along the train tracks. A park and a few houses are now where the cemetery used to be.
Half of my top 10 scariest horror movies happen to be ones I saw when I was a kid growing up in the 70s, and early 80s. "The Exorcist", "Poltergeist", "The Omen", "The Shining", and "The Changeling" (1980). If you haven't seen "The Changeling" yet... DO IT.
If something like this is ever happening in your house just remember it's there because it's rejected by both dark and light and it is stuck here and it is nobody's friend
what's really sad is that the little blonde girl in the movie died at the age of 12 years old in real life. And the teenage brunette who plays her sister was murdered not long after shooting this movie
I understand the question of "why don't they close the curtains so he can't see the scary tree."
I was exactly like this little boy when I was his age and the thing is, seeing it is scary, but NOT seeing it is somehow worse.
Mama was the MVP! The way they filmed the hallway scene running to save her babies is incredible.
That scene always gives me so much anxiety because how well they filmed it
Speaking of incredible, the father is the voice actor for Bob in The Incredibles.
Literally everything aboot this movie is great, it still holds up as one of the greatest supernatural movies of all time!
Rest in Peace, Dominque Dunn and Heather O'Rourke. Dominique Dunn played the oldest daughter Dana and Heather O'Rourke played Carol Anne. Dominique Dunn's life ended at age 22 because her boyfriend strangled her. Heather O'Rourke passed away due to being misdiagnosed. She died from septic shock at age 12.
Sad about both. Unspeakable tragedies. Dominique's bf only got a few years for murdering her. Her brother, Griffin Dunn starred in American Werewolf in London and other movies. He had a pretty successful career.
Not to mention Jo Beth Williams drowning and that whole debacle.
@@JasonHauser125you thinking of Natalie Wood? JoBeth is very much alive.
Dominique and Heather are buried close to each other in the same cemetery. I visit them a few times a year.
Her older brother, Griffin Dunne, played the best friend, walking meatball, Jack, in American Werewolf in London.
Man you gotta understand this nightmare fuel was rated PG…which means my parents thought it was cool for 10-year-old me to watch on HBO. My generation had nightmares for months.
I watched this movie originally when I was 4 and it scared the shit out of me. But.... by the time I was 5 or 6... I think I realized it was silly as shit and more ridiculous than scary. 7 at the oldest. Some of the funniest movies I've ever seen were The Exorcist and The Blair Witch Project.
@@nooneofconsequence1251 You were tougher at 7 than I was at 10. I watched the movie all the time (heavy rotation on HBO) but it still gave me nightmares.
Facts!
Yep, when the television networks went off the air at midnight.
Not sure if anyone has told you this but that Star Spangled Banner song then the snowy screen happened EVERY NIGHT. That was part of life. Once it went snowy, your TV time was over, period.
Yeah, back then we only had 4-5 channels and none of them were on 24 hours. Crazy to think about now.
I swear I almost feel like anyone born even one second later than myself could never understand the broadcast going off for the night. Is that not weird, does anyone else feel that way?
Pretty ironic considering this movie dominated the midnight to 6am block on HBO just a few years later
He said it best.. that was when the :programs (programming) was over
now imagine watching this when you were 9 when it was a new release. That face peeling scene is still with me today.
The 80's did not fuck about
I LOVE that you're reacting to horror ANYTIME. I love when channels do lots of horror during October but on the same hand I hate when that's the only time they give attention to horror. I feel like it should be part of the lineup all year round alongside all other genres. We enjoy the variety and horror reactions can sometimes be the most fun to watch!
Poltergeist, IT, John Wayne Gacy.... THIS IS WHY GEN X DON'T PLAY WITH CLOWNS.
Correct.
We were the last generation of feral children. We speak 2 languages... real talk and sarcasm. F around and find out. Not impressed with Millennials and Gen Z. What you got? Bring it on. You will lose. HOWEVER, yes sir, clowns suck. We don't play with that sh!t. 🤣
To this day, clowns terrify me!!
Plus there's the uncanny thing. Why some people are afraid of mannequins, dolls, shadows or anything that only that's close to being human but not quite there. It leaves the body on potential danger mode.
Homey dont play that
For the kitchen chair swap gag, this was a great practical effect. As Tobe Hooper described, it took exactly 4.0 seconds for the crew to swap those out. crew members were hiding under the counter and on the left side of the camera. As soon as Diane moved out of framed, they went into action. If you watch the scene again, you see a reflection of the crew in the corner of the toaster and someone bumps into the plant in the corner.
Putting the TV outside was classic!
The parents are THE BEST. Pot-smoking, silly people, still in love with each other and who genuinely care for their kids. I also love JoBeth Williams, how she gets a little excited when she jumps up and down, moves in the kitchen when she realized that her husband was seeing what she was seeing.
Also, fun little fact with the actress JoBeth Williams. The skeletons in the pool with her were real skeletons. She didn't find this out until after the filming. Basically, there's something so indescribable about the film and how it blends horror, humor, a sense of magical discovery with at the time a very unusual take with a more "realistic" take on ghost hunting. So damn good.
Ive always loved the parents relationship
I'm only just realizing he said the mom was 31 and their daughter 16
@@hollycook5046 He said HIS wife was 31. 32 sorry. He then said HIS eldest daughter was 16, not THEIR eldest daughter. So it could have been his 2nd wife.
Which in the novelization it is. Although in the movie, Dana is on the phone late at night, stays with "friends" a lot, and remembers the Holiday Inn. So...
@@hollycook5046 Dana Freeling is the 16-year-old daughter of Steve and Diane and the older sister of Robbie and Carol Anne. Mom was 16 when she had Dana!
Since I was 11 when this came out, the magnificent Miss Jobeth Williams has been and always will be the MILF against which all others are compared.
That kitchen scene with the steak and the bathroom scene with the melting face scarred me for years!
good old practical effects
It messed me up on fried chicken there for a while.
Oddly enough, this was interrupted for me for an ad, a dogfood ad.
burned into my memory forever 😅 I was WAY too young when I watched this
Poltergeist will always be a classic when it comes to horror movies. It's easily one of my favorites
Yep, and before the PG-13 rating, so it has more stuff probably than current day PG movies.
@@w1975b that's true
Stranger Things season 1 owes a huge debt to this film, which they specifically mentioned in the first episode: a child is abducted into some parallel dimension, but can still contact his mother using household technology. She eventually goes into a portal to the other side and brings him back.
"Theyre herrreee!" This was the movie!
Nuh uh
6:15: “I’d be scared to be this little girl’s pet…she’s taking them out!”
7:40: “We’ve got our eye on you. We ain’t going out like Tweety.”
😂
Dude, imagine being in the 2nd grade, getting out of bed in the middle of the night and sneaking down into the living room to watch this with your 4th grade older brother when it first premiered on HBO
When the guy pulls his face apart, that's not the actor, it's Steven Spielberg.
The prosthetic used for the effect was expensive and they needed to do this in one take. The actor was so afraid he'd mess it up somehow, so Spielberg did it for him.
The look on his face when he said, "The little girl's in the TV?" Lol, that is how we all felt when we watched this movie for the first time in the 1980s!
I love the parents in this film, they just feel so real and down to earth.
Rated PG movies hit harder in the 80s.
There was no PG-13, yet, so PG covered the wide range between G & R.
You’ve GOT to watch part 2 next, it still creeps me out to this day
you really can count to see how close or far away a storm is. My grandma taught me that trick when I was little. They say this is one of those cursed films. Lot of crazy stuff happened on set and to some of the actors
My Irish Grandmother taught me that when you count between the lightening & the thunder, that's how many miles the storm is from you.
Close but not quite - every second equals 330 meters. Its the flash-bang method the military uses to determine distance.
@@edp5886 she also told me that thunder was God bowling
This was one of the movies that started my love of horror as a child. Still one of my favorites. 👻
I was 12 when this came out and it was the first horror film I saw in the theater (the show was sold-out). The audience reaction was amazing (everyone lost their shit when that guy tore his face off). I loved it so much I saw it twice that year.
I saw THE EXORCIST on t.v. and that began my love of horror. Poltergeist definitely made my love for horror even stronger!!
@@joshuah9109 That's incredible. I was born in 92 but I would've loved to experience that.
The guy on the bike with beer is Dirk Blocker, aka Hitchcock from Brooklyn 99, the son of Dan Blocker aka Hoss Cartwright from Bonanza.
Watching your reaction to the jumps was priceless!!!!
Spielberg (who co-wrote this,) had a similarly frightening tree as he was growing up, so naturally, he had to put this in the film.
He had a fear of clowns as well, that (obviously) was the inspiration for that creepy clown doll.
Ayyyy more horror movies! Mr. Video bringing that heat as usual 🔥
The pool scene had REAL CORPSES.... please understand you won't see that today, but REAL dead people just showed up to be iconic actors in a great movie and they never knew.
And this is why the whole movie was haunted 😮
That's why this movie was cursed. Why the two young actresses died.
I won't attest to anything supernatural... I am just saying you're seeing real dead people in this movie 😉
😂
@@despozblehero2262 Haley Joel Osment saw them.
Love this movie. Love your reactions thank you for the entertainment. To me this is one of the most realistic I know it’s weird to say in a movie like this one of the most realistic families ever on film seemed like they knew each other were normal and they loved each other. And I think you’ll understand this Mr. video. I have said for 30 years. This is one of the most honest portrayals of marijuana use. A happy, healthy, affluent, successful, amazing family and Yep they smoke weed. No drinking except when things got really dark. But day-to-day they smoke weed and they are an amazing successful, healthy family. I love it and this is 1982.
One of my favourite childhood films lol. Poltergeist 2 is well worth a watch as well, one of the creepiest villains ever
“God is in his holy temple.”
I didn’t like the sequel because it diminishes “The Beast” from being a powerful and evil demon (possibly even satan) to being a crazy old preacher. Julian Beck gave a great performance and was creepy but it should’ve been a different movie and not a sequel to Poltergeist.
That old fucker still haunts my dreams and creeps me out to this day 😂
Yasss! Creepiest indeed
Made the brilliant decision to watch Poltergeist when I was 9, by myself, in a thunderstorm. Ain't never found another movie scary.
The lightning/thunder counting thing works. When I had kids I used it all the time
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When I was a kid my brother actually taught me that if you count however many seconds between seeing the lighting and hearing the thunder, it would tell you how close it is
Leo, I'm gonna be real with you... this movie scared the crap out of me as a kid. It didn't help that my Grandma had this and Aladdin recorded on the same VHS tape. Every time Aladdin ended I hurried up and rewinded it before the movie started like my life depended on it.
This is back when the PG rating actually meant that parental guidance was necessary.
I saw it when I was 10. My mom just dropped my neighbor and me off at the theater and in we went to see this. Freaked me the hell out but I loved it!
Leo, what you said at the end is totally relatable. I was one of those kids trying to see skinemax through the static 🤣
One of my favorite childhood movies!!
Scary Movie also referenced the clown pulling the boy under the bed. In Scary Movie it pulls 1 of the Wayne brothers under the bed but he had a surprise for the clown lol
The clown is like "nope"!
Being 53 loved and still do this movie and so enjoy see the vintage Star Wars toys in it.
I went to school for 2 years in a school built on an old cemetery. And they showed this movie to us in that building in 6th grade. The day we got out for break. Couldn't do that today. You blurred the best part, that bathroom sink scene had a the other kids going crazy. Great video.
This movie came out when I was 11. It scared me but it was so much fun! I loved it then and still do.
And the lightning distance counting thing is a real thing. Since lighting is the source of thunder, it makes complete sense.
You only moved the Headstones!
He said.... "You called the poltergeist a bastard" 🤣😂
OMG, one of my favorite movies. First saw it not long after it came out in theaters only I saw it in a hotel room at the Hilton in Waikiki in Hawaii. The hotel with the Rainbow on the side. I was about 10 or 11. My parents went out for the night. I ordered the movie after they left. Funny thing is we lived on the island but often took vacations in Waikiki or island hopped as it was cheaper than traveling to the mainland or flying someplace further. The Hilton is actually a complex of hotels and they have ponds that connect them and come into the lobbies. They had a pair of swans. These swans loved me for some reason and followed me everywhere for a few days and were very friendly. I got so scared not even halfway through the movie I went to the lobby, called the swans and they followed me onto the elevator and to my room. Then I watched the movie- I called them Fred & Ethel, and ordered room service with the birds in my parents bed 😂. They were so shocked when they got home that night 😲. My dad ended up laughing and then made me take the birds back downstairs to the pond. I loved those birds. I always think of that when I see this movie. Both of my parents are gone now 😢.
I love this ❤
29:47 seen. This movie 100 times and still agreed with miss lady ma'am with the glasses and ol kid voice to to go get my baby from the tv ppl.... And she the only one making any sense of this.... 🤔🤔🤔
There's an Ace Ventura reference but Ace V got it from this movie. "This house is clear". Lol
This movie was cursed. So many bad things happened on set. Then afterward the actress that plays Carl Anne died from some crazy intestinal issue. Septic shock and cardiac arrest. The actress that plays the older sister thats absent throughout the main part of the movie and shows up at thend….She was murdered by her boyfriend right after making the movie.
Yay! Horror movie reaction. My favorite!!!
There's a little bit of wordplay in the scene where they're fighting over which parent the kids are more threatened by.
The dad's so reluctant to be seen as the "threatening" one that he warns Carol Ann if she doesn't answer him she's gonna get a real spanking. He could have stopped there, but he had to add, "from the BOTH of us,"
Oh, you picked a good one!
"Turn the tv off. Let's start there." - Leo The Prophet.
Dogs DO KNOW. Our dogs took some time getting used to the spirits in our house. At first theyd follow them around and get spooked when touched by them. One time the bigger dog actually jumped up from a dead sleep and jumped down from the chair and then just stared at the fuckin chair. They are used to it now and actually that dog likes to lay out in the hallway at night now. He lays on his back so Im pretty sure he gets ghost belly rubs throughout the night. Not joking either…
So do cats!!
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Dogs wake themselves by their own farts and people out here claiming it's ghosts 😂.
Man! I ain't seen you in a minute! Glad to see you in my feed again!
This was scary but Part 2 is even scarier because you get to see the thing that was on the other side with the little girl.
Been away for a while, teeth look GREAT Leo! Congrats!
Love seeing when you do 80s reactions especially horror^_^Transformers 86 reaction is my favorite
I'd just like to take a moment to say rest in peace to the actor of this film who most recently passed away, James Karen, who played the father's boss in this film. He was also in an amazing horror comedy from 1985 called The Return of The Living Dead.
the soundtrack in this movie is soo good. especially the more calm ones that play throughout
Yes, my favorite Jerry Goldsmith score, and he had many great ones. I listen to Poltergeist often.
Wonderful to "see" it again. Thanks 😊 Hugs from Sweden.
We love you my man!! Have the best 4th EVER!!!🎉🎉🎉
They're here!
Classic, brought to you by the director of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and Salem's Lot (1977), which you should Also watch. The Dad would also eventually voice Mr Incredible.
And star in coach
One year before directing this film, the director made a horror film called "THE FUN HOUSE." It doesn't quite measure up to his other horror films, but that's a pretty high bar and it's an underrated gem that's worth checking out.
Loved her on teen witch
This was a summer smash. I remember going to see it with my cousin summer 1982. Fantastic movie! Love your reactions!!!
Dude, I love you more and more each day and the fact that you’re doing some horror movies when it in October even better always time for a horror movie especially this one. It is one of my all-time favorite horror movies keep it up bro you doing well.
BTW, there were REAL dead bodies in the pool with her. (And in the sequel too.) First time I watched this movie was in the early 90s in my unfinished basement on a beta vcr. It was an experience.
Lol I watched it on beta max in tge late 80s
In Scary Movie 2, they spoof the tree attack scene too.
the stoner Wayans bother had a marijuana plant in a flowerpot by the window. The plant grows huge, then grabs him, rolls him up into a blunt in his bedsheet, and stats smoking him.
37:16...... Now, that he mentioned it, Tales from the Crypt Demon Knight is another must watch 💯😁
I second this request 😈
One thing that always slides by reactors is that the mom character is 31 years old and they have a 16-year-old daughter, which means dad knocked her up when she was 14 or 15.
I always assumed she was his second wife and the oldest girl was a bonus child. Then again, a lot of us in Gen X were love children. Our parents were the "free love" crowd. :D
Classsssssiiiccc ❤ that damn clown every time! 😂
The second Poltergeist is pretty good! I really enjoy your response to this one, the scene with the guy ripping his face off deeply disturbed me and stuck with me for a few days after I first saw this movie.
What's up Leo? Another great reaction. And miss your live feeds, maybe we can get one over the summer. That day you were golfing was fun!
I was 12 years old when this movie came out. I can remember waiting in line for tickets with my mom and my best friend.
I didn’t sleep good for a week. Lol
The trilogy of this movie paved the way for horror movies as a child growing up. Even to this day, I still have the trilogy
One of the best horror movies ever
I used to live in San Diego CA. There was a store at Sea Port Village and it was a clown store. They had the actual clown from the movie in there. This movie and that clown made me fall in love with the horror genre.
This is scary. They use real skeletons in the dirty water.
You my boy Leo!!!! Been watchin since it was you in front of the TV. You ever need to crash in Indiana,. Lemme know.
Damn, just hearing her voice coming from the tv still gives me goose bumps
Poltergeist is the greatest Steven Spielberg film that was never directed by Spielberg. Also, this horror film is a classic that'll live forever. Great reaction Leo! 👍🏿
I still am not convinced that he didn't call so many shots he might as well have been directing. Every single frame of this film feels like a Spielberg movie, and none of them feel like a Hooper movie.
@JasonHauser125 Good point. I think that Universal Studios had Spielberg under some kind of contract that prevented him from directing Poltergeist or at least taking the credit for directing more than one film in the same year (1982) at that time. Obviously, he directed E.T. The Extraterrestrial. And Spielberg did everything regarding the production of Poltergeist except "directing" the movie. But, ever since 1989, Spielberg has been in the habit of putting out 2 movies in the same year. Like I said, I think the studio prevented Spielberg from taking the credit for directing Poltergeist, meanwhile giving sole directing credit to Hooper. And you're right. When you compare Poltergeist to the rest of Hooper's filmography, Poltergeist is nothing like his other films.
@@JamesASharp Really well said. None of the actors will talk about it, but a few members of the crew have confirmed Spielberg basically directed this, though Hooper was genuinely involved and did direct several scenes.
@@ZooterOne I believe it.
@@JasonHauser125 Toby Hooper directed “Poltergeist”.
Steven Spielberg directed Toby Hooper directing “Poltergeist”.
Awesome Movie and Work Bro, Thanks!!! Greetings from Helsinki, Finland🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸
I thought I'd seen all of this movie, turns out I'd only seen the TV broadcast version, when I was watching a Patreon FULL LENGTH reaction a couple years ago that scene happened with that guy pulling his face off.... man I didn't think a gore scene could still scare me in my 30s anymore, but IT DID!
Always loved this movie.
The bodies that were used in the last scene were real and the actors didn't know it until after.
Yay, Yessss, Mr V. Love this movie, some major creepies in the films and surrounding the films. R.I.P. to all who passed. 4 actors in 6 yrs from the 3 films, which they called a curse.🕯🕯Thanx darlin', take care, Peace
Now I know why you pulled my favorite Napoleon Dynamite reaction. You were hittin’ on the sherm!😎😉
This is my rainy, stormy day go to movie. Scared me to death when I saw it way back in the early 80's. I was only about 6 years old 😅. It didn't help that I don't like clowns either.
Since you mentioned it, a lot of elements in this movie inspired elements in _Stranger Things_ . Like the kid getting pulled into a creepy parallel dimension, the kid trying to talk to the parents through electronics, and the squicky portals. Also since Craig T. Nelson (the dad) also played Mr. Incredible, they referenced this film in _Incredibles 2_ when Jack-Jack could teleport to an alternate dimension and the rest of the family could still hear him. Anyway I love this movie, I only saw it for the first time a few years ago but it's become one of my favorites. It's neat to see how much it influenced the "family moves into a haunted house" subgenre of horror
I saw this movie on HBO shortly after it was in theaters. This was while I was spending the night at a friend's house and we were maybe 12, plus or minus a year. He had two beds, one on either side of his room. The guest bed was where he kept some stuffed animals, including a Curious George. I had put them on the floor when I went to bed.
A scream woke me some time later. My friend was sitting up on his bed screaming. His parents ran in to see what happened. Turns out that George had landed against the bed like he was standing upright. Friend woke up and saw that by the light of the streetlight coming in the window. He called me and when I didn't answer he thought George had killed me, like the clown in the movie, and now it was coming for him.
They got him settled down and took George out with them and we went back to sleep. At least I did, I'm not sure about friend.
Love the vid keep it up
Leo!!! Great pic! This movie still scares me of what could possibly happen if builders disrespect hallowed ground & the deceased who rest there. & I was 16 when this came out. 58 now.
Thunder is the sound of lightning and counting gives you an idea of how far away the lightning by timing how long the sound of the thunder takes to get to you. So if you can count longer it's further away. Idk who told me that first but we always did that as kids.
No. Thunder is NOT the sound of lightning. It's occurs when air masses collide.
We used to do that too. It's pretty accurate.
@@rakitakhanwe all know what he meant and so did you.
@@MiddleAgedBob He did not say what I did. Get bent.
@@rakitakhan thunder only happens after lightning
While researching my family history, I found that a cemetery in which a few of my ancestors were buried was relocated because it was too small. The cemetery was at the base of an escarpment, and a train track runs close to the escarpment’s edge. When the cemetery was being moved, it’s figured that not all of the bodies were moved, and some people have reported seeing weird shapes, possibly ghosts, along the train tracks.
A park and a few houses are now where the cemetery used to be.
Thanks for a great reaction. This movie is always been one of my favorites I saw it when it came out Mama back in the 80s.
Half of my top 10 scariest horror movies happen to be ones I saw when I was a kid growing up in the 70s, and early 80s.
"The Exorcist", "Poltergeist", "The Omen", "The Shining", and "The Changeling" (1980). If you haven't seen "The Changeling" yet... DO IT.
Rosemary’s Baby and The Omen might be too much for him! Those 2 freaked me out.
@@laurakali6522 I didn’t see “Rosemary’s Baby” until I was much older.
Yeah, that one is pretty freaky too! 😱
If something like this is ever happening in your house just remember it's there because it's rejected by both dark and light and it is stuck here and it is nobody's friend
what's really sad is that the little blonde girl in the movie died at the age of 12 years old in real life. And the teenage brunette who plays her sister was murdered not long after shooting this movie
Lmao I paused the video and the screen grab could be a thumbnail. It’s hilarious. Wish I could share
you should've just timestamped it, dude. How old are you? lol