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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: Blu-ray
EAN: 0012569798496
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 6313
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1982
Editorial Review:
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 Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Poltergeist on blu-ray
"Poltergeist" is one of my favorite horror pictures and I just introduced my 18-yr-old niece to the film with this blu-ray edition. She found it very scary and was stunned it was only rated PG (considering the year it was released). The picture and audio quality of this edition are both wonderful but, as noted by other reviewers, there are no real extras. Because of all the behind-the-scenes drama I have a feeling it will be a very long time before we see an edition which includes some really ... Read More
Rating: - Love this classic!
This movie has a fond place in my heart, and the Blu-Ray release did not disappoint. Although more extras would have been nice, the picure and sound quality are excellent. Highly recommend this to anyone who's a fan of the movie.
Rating: - Poltergeist Bluy-Ray
I loved this movie as a child and still do,the blue-ray looks and sounds much better than the dvd,but again not nearly enough extras on this blue-ray,could have been so much better,this classic movie deserved that treatment.
Rating:  - Stunning transfer for a 1982 movie! If you love this film, the upgrade is worth it!
I've been a fan of this film for over 20 years. My parents had the VHS and before that it was taped from TV. I own the 25th Anniversary edition, which I had not yet watched. I know Blu-Rays often are criticized for the lack of extras, but I must specifically comment here on the PQ and AQ.
I absolutely love this film, for its storyline, characters and visual accomplishments achieved for its time period. I did not expect a quality transfer such as this one, when I popped the disc in. I ... Read More
Rating:  - Poltergeist - Blu-ray Info
Version: U.S.A / Region A, B, C
Aspect ratio: 2.20:1
VC-1 BD-25 / Advanced Profile 3
Running time: 1:54:28
Disc size: 19,94 GB
Movie size: 22,11 GB
Average video bit rate: 16.67 Mbps
Dolby TrueHD Audio English 1138 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 16-bit / 1138kbps (AC3 Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps)
Dolby Digital Audio English 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English ... Read More
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