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As a Fridge subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.


Fridge Brilliance

  • The glowing woman is actually The Waiting Woman (according to the novelization).
  • It takes a while to realize that Tweety dying isn't just there without purpose: it's the metaphorical Canary In The Coal Mine. It's meant to signify that something is wrong with the Freelings' house.
  • The housing development the Freelings live in is called Cuesta Verde— in Spanish, "The cost of green". Strange name for a place, but it fits the true nature of the place—Steven mentions on the job that they say "the grass is greener on all sides", but we later learn the area was built over a cemetery without moving the bodies, leading to horrific ghost activity. Cuesta Verde is green on all sides—but at what cost?
    • Problem is, the correct translation would be "Green Hill".

Fridge Horror

  • Given that the tree isn't actually in the house at all, its attack on Robbie could be considered a subtle hint about the property being built on a graveyard that was never really moved, and/or above a cavern where a bunch of settlers died. It's an old tree, not something that would've been planted by a landscaper; it would've been alive when the cemetery was operational, and a seedling when Kane's religious cult perished in the cavern. That tree was very much a part of the haunting, because its roots fed on the decomposition of the restless dead.

Alternative Title(s): Poltergeist

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