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[[caption-width-right:350:There is a reason why some kids are terrified of clowns.]]
* 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.\\\
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 movie, when the closet has a huge mouth sucking the kids into the portal. The fact 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 it represents. 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 break down from the spirits taking over the house. No disturbing images or gore involved, just a practical camera zoom-out effect.
* 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.
* 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, and bright lights start shining. It has a thoroughly unnerving effect.
* 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 been Creator/StevenSpielberg's idea. The corpses in the final scene were ''real'', as using real skeletons was cheaper than getting plastic ones.
* 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.
* Tangina's expository monologue, detailing exactly what's going on in the house and what they're up against.
* 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. 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.
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/04775637_3581_4d81_914e_f5f1a54b99d6.jpeg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:There is a reason why some kids are terrified of clowns.]]
* 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.\\\
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 movie, when the closet has a huge mouth sucking the kids into the portal. The fact 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 it represents. 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 break down from the spirits taking over the house. No disturbing images or gore involved, just a practical camera zoom-out effect.
* 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.
* 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, and bright lights start shining. It has a thoroughly unnerving effect.
* 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 been Creator/StevenSpielberg's idea. The corpses in the final scene were ''real'', as using real skeletons was cheaper than getting plastic ones.
* 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.
* Tangina's expository monologue, detailing exactly what's going on in the house and what they're up against.
* 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. 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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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/04775637_3581_4d81_914e_f5f1a54b99d6.jpeg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:There is a reason why some kids are terrified of clowns.]]
* 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.\\\
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 movie, when the closet has a huge mouth sucking the kids into the portal. The fact 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 it represents. 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 break down from the spirits taking over the house. No disturbing images or gore involved, just a practical camera zoom-out effect.
* 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.
* 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, and bright lights start shining. It has a thoroughly unnerving effect.
* 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 been Creator/StevenSpielberg's idea. The corpses in the final scene were ''real'', as using real skeletons was cheaper than getting plastic ones.
* 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.
* Tangina's expository monologue, detailing exactly what's going on in the house and what they're up against.
* 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. 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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* 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. 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.
!! The remake
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/poltergeist_2015_nightmare_fuel.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Some things shouldn't be witnessed by human eyes...]]
* Even the opening MGM logo has a JumpScare in it.
* 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.
* 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 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 drills through the wall, with the bit extending several inches into the real world, right at the level of Boyd's head. The drill comes closer, closer, and Boyd is well aware that 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.
!! The remake
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/poltergeist_2015_nightmare_fuel.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Some things shouldn't be witnessed by human eyes...]]
* Even the opening MGM logo has a JumpScare in it.
* 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.
* 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 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 drills through the wall, with the bit extending several inches into the real world, right at the level of Boyd's head. The drill comes closer, closer, and Boyd is well aware that 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 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. 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.
!! The remake
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/poltergeist_2015_nightmare_fuel.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Some things shouldn't be witnessed by human eyes...]]
* Even the opening MGM logo has a JumpScare in it.
* 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.
* 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 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 drills through the wall, with the bit extending several inches into the real world, right at the level of Boyd's head. The drill comes closer, closer, and Boyd is well aware that 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.spirits.
!! The remake
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/poltergeist_2015_nightmare_fuel.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Some things shouldn't be witnessed by human eyes...]]
* Even the opening MGM logo has a JumpScare in it.
* 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.
* 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 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 drills through the wall, with the bit extending several inches into the real world, right at the level of Boyd's head. The drill comes closer, closer, and Boyd is well aware that 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.
