{"product_id":"poltergeist-import","title":"Poltergeist [Import]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e JoBeth Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e NTSC\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 26-08-1997\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e What a combo! Tobe Hooper, the director of \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u003c\/i\u003e, teamed up with family-oriented producer Steven Spielberg to make \u003ci\u003ePoltergeist\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003eE.T.\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eA Nightmare on Elm Street\u003c\/i\u003e, which came along two years later, \u003ci\u003ePoltergeist\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the smartest and most entertaining horror pictures of its time. \u003ci\u003e--Jim Emerson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUPC:\u003c\/b\u003e 027616622631\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780792835929\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e VHS Tape\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ID Shop.ca","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51460475322665,"sku":"ZE-8ZPL-Y8DD","price":29.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/6225\/6681\/files\/71YT81KEHFL.gif?v=1762031953","url":"https:\/\/konnichiwa.ca\/en\/products\/poltergeist-import","provider":"こんにちはマート | KON NICHIWA MART","version":"1.0","type":"link"}