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Poltergeist

Tobe HOOPER

USA1982114min 35mm Color

Synopsis

One of Tobe Hooper’s classic horrors produced by Steven Spielberg. Strange things that can’t be explained scientifically start to happen in the home of a couple, and their children. In the beginning, furniture and objects move by themselves, and then things start to get serious when the youngest daughter disappears into the television set. The family calls a parapsychologist who starts to inspect the house...

Diretor

Tobe HOOPER

Before becoming a filmmaker, he spent the 1960s as a college professor and documentary cameraman. In 1974, he made The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which changed the horror film industry. In 1982, he found greater success when Steven Spielberg hired him to direct his production of Poltergeist.