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* The scene with the meat on the counter moving by itself and imploding blood. Marty sees it and drops the chicken out of his mouth, maggots crawling all over it.
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* The scene with the meat on the counter moving by itself and imploding blood. Marty sees it and drops the chicken out of his mouth, maggots crawling all over it.
it. Marty can only react in horror as he stumbles over to the sink in the closet where comes another famous moment where he begins to suddenly start peeling the skin right off his face! Only to see it was some kind of hallucination made by the spirits.
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* If you're a kid, the scenes with the evil [[MonsterClown clown]] [[PerversePuppet puppet]] and the [[ManEatingPlant carnivorous]] [[WhenTreesAttack tree]] are straight out of Hell. If you're a parent, the mother's struggles to reach her endangered children, as corpses pop up out of the pool and floors all around her, are even worse. And the bit where the researcher claws at his own disintegrating face in the mirror gets to everyone.
** Even worse in the book, where that is just part of a greater manifestation. First, he sees his midnight snack sprout tumors and maggots, then he peels his face off, then he's paralyzed while trying to run away from the manifestation. Then, he's eaten alive by a spider swarm, feeling every detail. Then, he's eaten by rats, then worms, then he crumbles to sub-atomic dust. Again, he can feel ''everything'' as it happens.
* The end of the movie when the closet has a huge mouth sucking the kids into the portal, the fact its growling like a monster doesn't help either.
* When the ''giant flaming skull'' pops out of the portal in the closet - and far more what it represented. Steven was told ''not to pull on the rope'' by Tangina - he did it anyway, and what came out attached to the rope wasn't his wife -- it was '''the beast.'''
* The white, spider-like...''[[http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/poltergeist.jpg thing]]'' guarding the door to kids' room when the ghosts return. Somehow the bright light on it (as opposed to darkness and shadows) makes it worse.
* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/endless_hallway.png The endless hallway scene.]] Diane is pushing to reach her children's room before spirits can recapture Carol Anne with the aforementioned mouth portal in their room. When she reaches the second floor, the hallways starts stretching well beyond the limits of the house like the laws of physics are starting to breakdown from the spirits taking over the house. No disturbing images or gore involved, just a practical camera zoom-out effect.
** Even worse in the book, where that is just part of a greater manifestation. First, he sees his midnight snack sprout tumors and maggots, then he peels his face off, then he's paralyzed while trying to run away from the manifestation. Then, he's eaten alive by a spider swarm, feeling every detail. Then, he's eaten by rats, then worms, then he crumbles to sub-atomic dust. Again, he can feel ''everything'' as it happens.
* The end of the movie when the closet has a huge mouth sucking the kids into the portal, the fact its growling like a monster doesn't help either.
* When the ''giant flaming skull'' pops out of the portal in the closet - and far more what it represented. Steven was told ''not to pull on the rope'' by Tangina - he did it anyway, and what came out attached to the rope wasn't his wife -- it was '''the beast.'''
* The white, spider-like...''[[http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/poltergeist.jpg thing]]'' guarding the door to kids' room when the ghosts return. Somehow the bright light on it (as opposed to darkness and shadows) makes it worse.
* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/endless_hallway.png The endless hallway scene.]] Diane is pushing to reach her children's room before spirits can recapture Carol Anne with the aforementioned mouth portal in their room. When she reaches the second floor, the hallways starts stretching well beyond the limits of the house like the laws of physics are starting to breakdown from the spirits taking over the house. No disturbing images or gore involved, just a practical camera zoom-out effect.
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* If you're a kid, the scenes with the evil [[MonsterClown clown]] [[PerversePuppet puppet]] and the [[ManEatingPlant carnivorous]] [[WhenTreesAttack tree]] are straight out of Hell. If you're a parent, the mother's struggles to reach her endangered children, as corpses pop up out of the pool and floors all around her, are even worse. And the bit where the researcher claws at his own disintegrating face in the mirror gets to everyone.
** Eveneveryone.\\\
The last one is even worse in the book, where that is just part of a greater manifestation. First, he sees his midnight snack sprout tumors and maggots, then he peels his face off, then he's paralyzed while trying to run away from the manifestation. Then, he's eaten alive by a spider swarm, feeling every detail. Then, he's eaten by rats, then worms, then he crumbles to sub-atomic dust. Again, he can feel ''everything'' as it happens.
* The end of themovie movie, when the closet has a huge mouth sucking the kids into the portal, the portal. The fact its that it's growling like a monster doesn't help either.
* When the ''giant flaming skull'' pops out of the portal in the closet - and far more what itrepresented. represents. Steven was told ''not to pull on the rope'' by Tangina - he Tangina. He did it anyway, and what came out attached to the rope wasn't his wife -- it was '''the beast.'''
beast'''.
* The white, spider-like... ''[[http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/poltergeist.jpg thing]]'' guarding the door to kids' room when the ghosts return. Somehow the bright light on it (as opposed to darkness and shadows) makes it worse.
* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/endless_hallway.png The endless hallway scene.]] Diane is pushing to reach her children's room before spirits can recapture Carol Anne with the aforementioned mouth portal in their room. When she reaches the second floor, the hallways starts stretching well beyond the limits of the house like the laws of physics are starting tobreakdown break down from the spirits taking over the house. No disturbing images or gore involved, just a practical camera zoom-out effect.
** Even
The last one is even worse in the book, where that is just part of a greater manifestation. First, he sees his midnight snack sprout tumors and maggots, then he peels his face off, then he's paralyzed while trying to run away from the manifestation. Then, he's eaten alive by a spider swarm, feeling every detail. Then, he's eaten by rats, then worms, then he crumbles to sub-atomic dust. Again, he can feel ''everything'' as it happens.
* The end of the
* When the ''giant flaming skull'' pops out of the portal in the closet - and far more what it
* The white, spider-like... ''[[http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/poltergeist.jpg thing]]'' guarding the door to kids' room when the ghosts return. Somehow the bright light on it (as opposed to darkness and shadows) makes it worse.
* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/endless_hallway.png The endless hallway scene.]] Diane is pushing to reach her children's room before spirits can recapture Carol Anne with the aforementioned mouth portal in their room. When she reaches the second floor, the hallways starts stretching well beyond the limits of the house like the laws of physics are starting to
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* Critics initially blew off this movie as "not scary enough" because nobody gets killed messily. But seriously - ask any parent how they would feel [[AdultFear to see their five-year-old dragged off by malevolent spirits, unable to reach them or stop it]]. Bonus AdultFear: being able to hear your terrified child ''screaming'' for you to save her...with no way of knowing where she is.
* The chairs stacking themselves offscreen. So simple. ''So'' threatening.
** And done all in one shot, while the camera pans away for a few seconds. Impressive. Note that the chairs were positioned that way in ''complete silence''. Diane was a few steps away, and didn't hear a thing.
** Also, look at the bottom-left chair. Two of its legs are resting on air. The chairs are not just stacked, the weight of the chairs on top is all that's holding the ones on the ends in place. Which is nearly as creepy, because there's no way that ''one'' person could do that, even given several minutes in which to do it. Which implies, right from the beginning of the haunting, that there are ''multiple'' ghosts at work.
** It's worse when you remember that the silverware was bent out of shape while the family ''was still at the table''.
* The movie has an uncanny tendency to have long scenes of relative calm and normalcy (even after the poltergeists have made their presence known) only for the HSQ to suddenly turn up out of nowhere as things start bursting out the closet, toys start moving around on their own,d bright lights start shining. It has a thoroughly unnerving effect.
* The chairs stacking themselves offscreen. So simple. ''So'' threatening.
** And done all in one shot, while the camera pans away for a few seconds. Impressive. Note that the chairs were positioned that way in ''complete silence''. Diane was a few steps away, and didn't hear a thing.
** Also, look at the bottom-left chair. Two of its legs are resting on air. The chairs are not just stacked, the weight of the chairs on top is all that's holding the ones on the ends in place. Which is nearly as creepy, because there's no way that ''one'' person could do that, even given several minutes in which to do it. Which implies, right from the beginning of the haunting, that there are ''multiple'' ghosts at work.
** It's worse when you remember that the silverware was bent out of shape while the family ''was still at the table''.
* The movie has an uncanny tendency to have long scenes of relative calm and normalcy (even after the poltergeists have made their presence known) only for the HSQ to suddenly turn up out of nowhere as things start bursting out the closet, toys start moving around on their own,d bright lights start shining. It has a thoroughly unnerving effect.
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* Critics initially blew off this movie as "not scary enough" because nobody gets killed messily. But seriously - ask any parent how they would feel [[AdultFear to see their five-year-old dragged off by malevolent spirits, unable to reach them or stop it]]. Bonus AdultFear: being able to hear your terrified child ''screaming'' for you to save her... with no way of knowing where she is.
* The chairs stacking themselves offscreen. So simple. ''So''threatening.
**threatening. And done all in one shot, while the camera pans away for a few seconds. Impressive. Note that the chairs were positioned that way in ''complete silence''. Diane was a few steps away, and didn't hear a thing.
**thing.\\\
Also, look at the bottom-left chair. Two of its legs are resting on air. The chairs are not just stacked, the weight of the chairs on top is all that's holding the ones on the ends in place. Which is nearly as creepy, because there's no way that ''one'' person could do that, even given several minutes in which to do it. Which implies, right from the beginning of the haunting, that there are ''multiple'' ghosts atwork.
**work. It's worse when you remember that the silverware was bent out of shape while the family ''was still at the table''.
* The movie has an uncanny tendency to have long scenes of relative calm and normalcy (even after the poltergeists have made their presenceknown) known), only for the HSQ to suddenly turn up out of nowhere as things start bursting out the closet, toys start moving around on their own,d own, and bright lights start shining. It has a thoroughly unnerving effect.
* The chairs stacking themselves offscreen. So simple. ''So''
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* Tangina's expository monologue, detailing exactly what was going on in the house and what they were up against.
* The infamous scene where Marty hallucinates peeling his face off until he can see his skull.
* The scene with the meat on the counter moving by itself and imploding blood, and Marty sees it and drops the chicken out of his mouth and maggots are crawling all over it, yuck!
* The infamous scene where Marty hallucinates peeling his face off until he can see his skull.
* The scene with the meat on the counter moving by itself and imploding blood, and Marty sees it and drops the chicken out of his mouth and maggots are crawling all over it, yuck!
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* Tangina's expository monologue, detailing exactly what was what's going on in the house and what they were they're up against.
* The infamous scene where Marty hallucinates peeling his face off until he can see his skull.
* The scene with the meat on the counter moving by itself and imploding blood, and blood. Marty sees it and drops the chicken out of his mouth and mouth, maggots are crawling all over it, yuck!it.
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* In this version, the other side is portrayed as a mirror image of our world, but everything is composed of writhing masses of lost souls, clawing and moaning at nothing and everything. It's an entire [[EldritchLocation eldritch]] ''[[EldritchLocation dimension.]]''
* The scene with Boyd, when he drills into the wall and accidentally makes a larger hole than expected, and his power-drill falls through. He sticks his hand in, and his arm is held fast by ''something'', which effectively pins him to the wall. Next, his power-drill from the other side is drilling through the wall, with the bit extending several inches into the real world., right at the level of Boyd's head. The drilling comes closer, closer, and Boyd is well aware that the next drilling will kill him gruesomely, but is unable to move. Fortunately, he is released, and he gets away. (It turns out that the scene is probably a hallucination like the face-peeling from the original, as the wall is next shown to be intact.) In the scene immediately preceding this, Boyd set up a death flag by making comments to Griffin indicating that he thought the whole thing was a money-making publicity stunt by an unemployed father; consequently, Viewers had good reason to expect that the above scene would result in a KarmicDeath.
* The scene with Boyd, when he drills into the wall and accidentally makes a larger hole than expected, and his power-drill falls through. He sticks his hand in, and his arm is held fast by ''something'', which effectively pins him to the wall. Next, his power-drill from the other side is drilling through the wall, with the bit extending several inches into the real world., right at the level of Boyd's head. The drilling comes closer, closer, and Boyd is well aware that the next drilling will kill him gruesomely, but is unable to move. Fortunately, he is released, and he gets away. (It turns out that the scene is probably a hallucination like the face-peeling from the original, as the wall is next shown to be intact.) In the scene immediately preceding this, Boyd set up a death flag by making comments to Griffin indicating that he thought the whole thing was a money-making publicity stunt by an unemployed father; consequently, Viewers had good reason to expect that the above scene would result in a KarmicDeath.
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* In this version, the other side is portrayed as a mirror image of our world, but everything is composed of writhing masses of lost souls, clawing and moaning at nothing and everything. It's an entire [[EldritchLocation eldritch]] ''[[EldritchLocation dimension.]]''
dimension]]''.
* The scenewith Boyd, when he where Boyd drills into the wall and accidentally makes a larger hole than expected, and his power-drill falls through. He sticks his hand in, and his arm is held fast by ''something'', which effectively pins him to the wall. Next, his power-drill from the other side is drilling drills through the wall, with the bit extending several inches into the real world., world, right at the level of Boyd's head. The drilling drill comes closer, closer, and Boyd is well aware that the next drilling it will kill him gruesomely, but is unable to move. Fortunately, he is released, and he gets away. (It turns out that the scene is probably a hallucination like the face-peeling from the original, as the wall is next shown to be intact.) In the scene immediately preceding this, Boyd set up a death flag by making comments to Griffin indicating that he thought the whole thing was a money-making publicity stunt by an unemployed father; consequently, Viewers had good reason to expect that the above scene would result in a KarmicDeath.
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* The scene where Maddie is lured into the Otherside through the closet. The spirits lure her in by dragging her favorite stuffed animal towards the portal in the closet. When she enters, she enters into a pitch-black void and turns around to find her bedroom moving away into the distance. Suddenly, she is grabbed by ghoulish undead and dragged into their netherworld. Seeing a child implicitly dragged into a DarkWorld can be terrifying to watch! The scene is also like childhood fears of closets taken UpToEleven.
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* The scene where Maddie is lured into the Otherside through the closet. The spirits lure her in by dragging her favorite stuffed animal towards the portal in the closet. When she enters, she enters into a pitch-black void and turns around to find her bedroom moving away into the distance. Suddenly, she is grabbed by ghoulish undead and dragged into their netherworld. Seeing a child implicitly dragged into a DarkWorld can be terrifying to watch! The scene is also like childhood fears of closets taken UpToEleven. The sheer [[NothingIsScarier darkness of the void]] can be more terrifying than what you can see.
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* The scene where Maddie is lured into the Otherside through the closet. The spirits lure her in by dragging her favorite stuffed animal towards the portal in the closet. When she enters, she enters into a pitch-black void and turns around to find her bedroom moving away into the distance. Suddenly, she is grabbed by ghoulish undead and dragged into their netherworld. Seeing a child implicitly dragged into a DarkWorld can be terrifying to watch!
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* The scene where Maddie is lured into the Otherside through the closet. The spirits lure her in by dragging her favorite stuffed animal towards the portal in the closet. When she enters, she enters into a pitch-black void and turns around to find her bedroom moving away into the distance. Suddenly, she is grabbed by ghoulish undead and dragged into their netherworld. Seeing a child implicitly dragged into a DarkWorld can be terrifying to watch!watch! The scene is also like childhood fears of closets taken UpToEleven.
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* The scene where Maddie is lured into the Otherside through the closet. The spirits lure her in by dragging her favorite stuffed animal towards the portal in the closet. When she enters, she enters into a pitch-black void and turns around to find her bedroom moving away into the distance. Suddenly, she is grabbed by ghoulish undead and dragged into their netherworld.
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* The scene where Maddie is lured into the Otherside through the closet. The spirits lure her in by dragging her favorite stuffed animal towards the portal in the closet. When she enters, she enters into a pitch-black void and turns around to find her bedroom moving away into the distance. Suddenly, she is grabbed by ghoulish undead and dragged into their netherworld. Seeing a child implicitly dragged into a DarkWorld can be terrifying to watch!
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* Spielberg/Hooper has several quiet scenes that give the audience plenty of time to anticipate something horrible happening. Diane knocking on the bedroom door. Robby hearing the clown hit the floor while Diane is taking a bath. The [[FantasticScience meter recording spirit activity]] activates and goes [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale off the scale]] while the technician is listening to music and drawing in a sketchpad.
* A bit of EnforcedMethodActing, said to have been Spielberg's idea. The corpses in the final scene were ''real'', as using real skeletons was cheaper than getting plastic ones.
* A bit of EnforcedMethodActing, said to have been Spielberg's idea. The corpses in the final scene were ''real'', as using real skeletons was cheaper than getting plastic ones.
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* Spielberg/Hooper The film has several quiet scenes that give the audience plenty of time to anticipate something horrible happening. Diane knocking on the bedroom door. Robby hearing the clown hit the floor while Diane is taking a bath. The [[FantasticScience meter recording spirit activity]] activates and goes [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale off the scale]] while the technician is listening to music and drawing in a sketchpad.
* A bit of EnforcedMethodActing, said to have beenSpielberg's Creator/StevenSpielberg's idea. The corpses in the final scene were ''real'', as using real skeletons was cheaper than getting plastic ones.
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** Even worse in the book, where that is just part of a greater manifestation. First, he sees his midnight snack sprout tumors and maggots, then he peels his face off, then he's paralyzed while trying to run away from the manifestation. Then, he's eaten alive by a spider swarm, feeling every detail. Then, he's eaten by rats, then worms, then he crumbles to sub-atomic dust. Again, he can feel ''everything'' as it happens.
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* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/endless_hallway.png The endless hallway scene.]] Diane is pushing to reach her children's room before spirits can recapture Carol Anne with the aforementioned mouth portal in their room. When she reaches the second floor, the hallways starts stretching well beyond the limits of the house like the laws of physics are starting to breakdown from the spirits taking over the house. No disturbing images or gore involved, just a practical camera effect.
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* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/endless_hallway.png The endless hallway scene.]] Diane is pushing to reach her children's room before spirits can recapture Carol Anne with the aforementioned mouth portal in their room. When she reaches the second floor, the hallways starts stretching well beyond the limits of the house like the laws of physics are starting to breakdown from the spirits taking over the house. No disturbing images or gore involved, just a practical camera zoom-out effect.
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** Spielberg/Hooper has several such quiet scenes that give the audience plenty of time to anticipate something horrible happening. Diane knocking on the bedroom door. Robby hearing the clown hit the floor while Diane is taking a bath. The [[FantasticScience meter recording spirit activity]] activates and goes [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale off the scale]] while the technician is listening to music and drawing in a sketchpad.
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* If you're a kid, the scenes with the evil [[MonsterClown clown]] [[PerversePuppet puppet]] and the [[ManEatingPlant carnivorous]] [[WhenTreesAttack tree]] are straight out of Hell. If you're a parent, the mother's struggles to reach her endangered children, as corpses pop up out of the pool and floors all around her, are even worse. And the bit where the researcher [[spoiler: claws at his own disintegrating face in the mirror]] gets to everyone.
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* If you're a kid, the scenes with the evil [[MonsterClown clown]] [[PerversePuppet puppet]] and the [[ManEatingPlant carnivorous]] [[WhenTreesAttack tree]] are straight out of Hell. If you're a parent, the mother's struggles to reach her endangered children, as corpses pop up out of the pool and floors all around her, are even worse. And the bit where the researcher [[spoiler: claws at his own disintegrating face in the mirror]] mirror gets to everyone.
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* What about when the ''giant flaming skull'' pops out of the portal in the closet? Far more what it represented. Steven was told ''not to pull on the rope'' by Tangina - he did it anyway, and what came out attached to the rope wasn't his wife -- it was '''''the beast.'''''
* And the white, spider-like...''[[http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/poltergeist.jpg thing]]'' guarding the door to kids' room when the ghosts return. Somehow the bright light on it (as opposed to darkness and shadows) makes it worse.
* And the simple fact that it all unfolds in somebody's tract home in a seemingly ordinary suburban neighborhood, not out in the woods or whatever, is pretty creepy. How many people who watch this for the first time can avoid looking suspiciously at their closet doors for several nights?
* Critics initially blew off this movie as "not scary enough" because nobody gets killed messily. But seriously - ask any parent how they would feel [[AdultFear to see their five-year-old dragged off by malevolent spirits, unable to reach them or stop it]].
** Bonus AdultFear: being able to hear your terrified child ''screaming'' for you to save her...with no way of knowing where she is.
* And the white, spider-like...''[[http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/poltergeist.jpg thing]]'' guarding the door to kids' room when the ghosts return. Somehow the bright light on it (as opposed to darkness and shadows) makes it worse.
* And the simple fact that it all unfolds in somebody's tract home in a seemingly ordinary suburban neighborhood, not out in the woods or whatever, is pretty creepy. How many people who watch this for the first time can avoid looking suspiciously at their closet doors for several nights?
* Critics initially blew off this movie as "not scary enough" because nobody gets killed messily. But seriously - ask any parent how they would feel [[AdultFear to see their five-year-old dragged off by malevolent spirits, unable to reach them or stop it]].
** Bonus AdultFear: being able to hear your terrified child ''screaming'' for you to save her...with no way of knowing where she is.
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* What about when When the ''giant flaming skull'' pops out of the portal in the closet? Far closet - and far more what it represented. Steven was told ''not to pull on the rope'' by Tangina - he did it anyway, and what came out attached to the rope wasn't his wife -- it was '''''the '''the beast.'''''
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*And the The simple fact that it all unfolds in somebody's tract home in a seemingly ordinary suburban neighborhood, not out in the woods or whatever, is pretty creepy. How many people who watch this for the first time can avoid looking suspiciously at their closet doors for several nights?
* Critics initially blew off this movie as "not scary enough" because nobody gets killed messily. But seriously - ask any parent how they would feel [[AdultFear to see their five-year-old dragged off by malevolent spirits, unable to reach them or stopit]].
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** And done all in one shot, while the camera pans away for a few seconds. Impressive.
*** Note that the chairs were positioned that way in ''complete silence''. Diane was a few steps away, and didn't hear a thing.
** Also, look at the bottom-left chair. Two of its legs are resting on air. The chairs are not just stacked, there is a force that is still actively holding them together.
** More like the weight of the chairs on top is all that's holding the ones on the ends in place. Which is nearly as creepy, because there's no way that ''one'' person could do that, even given several minutes in which to do it. Which implies, right from the beginning of the haunting, that there are ''multiple'' ghosts at work.
** Actually, it's worse when you remember that the silverware was bent out of shape while the family ''was still at the table''.
* The movie has an uncanny tendency to have long scenes of relative calm and normalcy (even after the poltergeists have made their presence known) only for the HSQ to suddenly turn up out of nowhere as things start bursting out the closet, toys start moving around on their own, and bright lights start shining. It has a thoroughly unnerving effect.
** Spielberg/Hooper has several such quiet scenes that give the audience plenty of time to anticipate something horrible happening. Diane knocking on the bedroom room. Robby hearing the clown hit the floor while Diane is taking a bath. The [[FantasticScience meter recording spirit activity]] activates and goes [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale off the scale]] while the technician is listening to music and drawing in a sketchpad.
* A bit of EnforcedMethodActing, said to have been Spielberg's idea. Some of the corpses in the final scene were ''real.''
** Not some of them were real. ''All'' of them were, as using real skeletons was cheaper than getting plastic ones.
* Don't forget the very, very end of the film, where the theme music stops and turns into creepy children's laughter, which continues even after the title fades. Not horrifying, but it's definitely unsettling.
*** Note that the chairs were positioned that way in ''complete silence''. Diane was a few steps away, and didn't hear a thing.
** Also, look at the bottom-left chair. Two of its legs are resting on air. The chairs are not just stacked, there is a force that is still actively holding them together.
** More like the weight of the chairs on top is all that's holding the ones on the ends in place. Which is nearly as creepy, because there's no way that ''one'' person could do that, even given several minutes in which to do it. Which implies, right from the beginning of the haunting, that there are ''multiple'' ghosts at work.
** Actually, it's worse when you remember that the silverware was bent out of shape while the family ''was still at the table''.
* The movie has an uncanny tendency to have long scenes of relative calm and normalcy (even after the poltergeists have made their presence known) only for the HSQ to suddenly turn up out of nowhere as things start bursting out the closet, toys start moving around on their own, and bright lights start shining. It has a thoroughly unnerving effect.
** Spielberg/Hooper has several such quiet scenes that give the audience plenty of time to anticipate something horrible happening. Diane knocking on the bedroom room. Robby hearing the clown hit the floor while Diane is taking a bath. The [[FantasticScience meter recording spirit activity]] activates and goes [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale off the scale]] while the technician is listening to music and drawing in a sketchpad.
* A bit of EnforcedMethodActing, said to have been Spielberg's idea. Some of the corpses in the final scene were ''real.''
** Not some of them were real. ''All'' of them were, as using real skeletons was cheaper than getting plastic ones.
* Don't forget the very, very end of the film, where the theme music stops and turns into creepy children's laughter, which continues even after the title fades. Not horrifying, but it's definitely unsettling.
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** And done all in one shot, while the camera pans away for a few seconds. Impressive. \n*** Note that the chairs were positioned that way in ''complete silence''. Diane was a few steps away, and didn't hear a thing.
** Also, look at the bottom-left chair. Two of its legs are resting on air. The chairs are not just stacked,there is a force that is still actively holding them together.
** More likethe weight of the chairs on top is all that's holding the ones on the ends in place. Which is nearly as creepy, because there's no way that ''one'' person could do that, even given several minutes in which to do it. Which implies, right from the beginning of the haunting, that there are ''multiple'' ghosts at work.
**Actually, it's It's worse when you remember that the silverware was bent out of shape while the family ''was still at the table''.
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** Spielberg/Hooper has several such quiet scenes that give the audience plenty of time to anticipate something horrible happening. Diane knocking on the bedroomroom.door. Robby hearing the clown hit the floor while Diane is taking a bath. The [[FantasticScience meter recording spirit activity]] activates and goes [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale off the scale]] while the technician is listening to music and drawing in a sketchpad.
* A bit of EnforcedMethodActing, said to have been Spielberg's idea.Some of the The corpses in the final scene were ''real.''
** Not some of them were real. ''All'' of them were,''real'', as using real skeletons was cheaper than getting plastic ones.
*Don't forget the The very, very end of the film, where the theme music stops and turns into creepy children's laughter, which continues even after the title fades. Not horrifying, but it's definitely unsettling.
** Also, look at the bottom-left chair. Two of its legs are resting on air. The chairs are not just stacked,
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** Spielberg/Hooper has several such quiet scenes that give the audience plenty of time to anticipate something horrible happening. Diane knocking on the bedroom
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* In this version, the other side is portrayed as a mirror image of our world, but everything is composed of writhing masses of lost souls, clawing and moaning at nothing and everything. It's an entire [[EldritchLocation Eldritch]] ''[[EldritchLocation dimension.]]''
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* In the remake, the scene with Boyd, when he drills into the wall and accidentally makes a larger hole than expected, and his power-drill falls through. He sticks his hand in, and his arm is held fast by ''something'', which effectively pins him to the wall. Next, his power-drill from the other side is drilling through the wall, with the bit extending several inches into the real world., right at the level of Boyd's head. The drilling comes closer, closer, and Boyd is well aware that the next drilling will kill him gruesomely, but is unable to move. Fortunately, he is released, and he gets away. (It turns out that the scene is probably a hallucination like the face-peeling from the original, as the wall is next shown to be intact.) In the scene immediately preceding this, Boyd set up a death flag by making comments to Griffin indicating that he thought the whole thing was a money-making publicity stunt by an unemployed father; consequently, Viewers had good reason to expect that the above scene would result in a KarmicDeath.
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* In this version, theremake, the other side is portrayed as a mirror image of our world, but everything is composed of writhing masses of lost souls, clawing and moaning at nothing and everything.
* The scene with Boyd, when he drills into the wall and accidentally makes a larger hole than expected, and his power-drill falls through. He sticks his hand in, and his arm is held fast by ''something'', which effectively pins him to the wall. Next, his power-drill from the other side is drilling through the wall, with the bit extending several inches into the real world., right at the level of Boyd's head. The drilling comes closer, closer, and Boyd is well aware that the next drilling will kill him gruesomely, but is unable to move. Fortunately, he is released, and he gets away. (It turns out that the scene is probably a hallucination like the face-peeling from the original, as the wall is next shown to be intact.) In the scene immediately preceding this, Boyd set up a death flag by making comments to Griffin indicating that he thought the whole thing was a money-making publicity stunt by an unemployed father; consequently, Viewers had good reason to expect that the above scene would result in a KarmicDeath.
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** Spielberg/Hooper has several such quiet scenes that give the GenreSavvy audience plenty of time to anticipate something horrible happening. Diane knocking on the bedroom room. Robby hearing the clown hit the floor while Diane is taking a bath. The [[FantasticScience meter recording spirit activity]] activates and goes [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale off the scale]] while the technician is listening to music and drawing in a sketchpad.
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* If you're a kid, the scenes with the evil clown puppet and the [[ManEatingPlant carnivorous]] tree are straight out of Hell. If you're a parent, the mother's struggles to reach her endangered children, as corpses pop up out of the pool and floors all around her, are even worse. And the bit where the researcher [[spoiler: claws at his own disintegrating face in the mirror]] gets to everyone.
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* If you're a kid, the scenes with the evil clown puppet [[MonsterClown clown]] [[PerversePuppet puppet]] and the [[ManEatingPlant carnivorous]] tree [[WhenTreesAttack tree]] are straight out of Hell. If you're a parent, the mother's struggles to reach her endangered children, as corpses pop up out of the pool and floors all around her, are even worse. And the bit where the researcher [[spoiler: claws at his own disintegrating face in the mirror]] gets to everyone.
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