My husband and I went to school with Heather. She was very kind hearted, and very sweet to all of us. The day she passed hit us all like a ton of bricks. We all miss her.
I was born in '73 and I remember the young actresses when she also played a character in "Happy Days" . Plus, I remember when homes were being built to mirror each other....the 1980s were a great decade for movies, music, and there locations. How things have changed.
FUN FACT: All the interior shots were filmed on a sound stage in Hollywood - EXCEPT for the kitchen scenes. I found someone that was trick or treating back then in the 80’s and was invited into the house. He could see the kitchen was identical but the rest of the house looked a little different. It’s my absolute favorite horror film of ALL time. I’ve seen it well over 100 times since 82. If I hit the lottery, I’d build that house identical to the one from the movie (I found the upstairs and downstairs floor plans!)
That's so cool--you and me both! I've always wondered what the real house looked like on the inside, but could unfortunately never find any photos online, not even on Zillow. If I had the money and the opportunity presented itself, I'd buy that house and live in it in a heartbeat. There is something both eerie and nostalgic about that movie that is inextricably linked to my childhood. It left a huge impression on me and I've been obsessed with it ever since.
If I remember right it was Dirk Blocker who was the man on the bike in the beginning of the movie carrying the beer. His father was Dan Blocker who played Hoss Cartwright on Bonanza.
One of my favourite films since being a child I know every single line it's so hard to believe it's nearly 41 years old poor Heather and Dominque rest in peace beautiful girls 💖💖💔🙏
This one hits hard. Poltergeist is one of my fave horrors. Heather was such a very talented young actress and the fact she passed at such a young age is just so upsetting. She had a great future in front of her.
I love this movie. My husband's family has a huge tie to this movie. The Atlas truck in the moving scene was my father in laws truck. We have pictures of my husband as a child running around on the set and his dad with the crew. It's such a wonderful memory for him to watch this movie. His father is gone now and I know he treasures these movies and the memories. Thank you for covering this movie and Heather's life along with it. She was definately a great little actress for the short amount of time she had on this planet. Cheers🥂💜❤🌈🍭🦄🌸
Did you grow up in Simi Valley? I'm from Chicago and remember seeing Poltergeist as a kid and wondering where it was filmed. With the mountains it looked like Mars to me. I went to Simi Valley when I was in California and went to the house. I remember wondering where everyone who lived there worked? You can't get a home there for under a couple million. Lol
This is the first real horror movie I saw as a kid. It scared the daylights out of me. Still can't sleep with the closet door open. Now as an adult, it's still one of the best horror movies! Definitely a classic. Thank you for covering this.
Everytime I see one of the Poltergeist films I think of how if Heather was still here maybe she'd do conventions from time to time. She'd definitely be a con favorite that would have appreciated and loved to see her fans from all over.
The part of the video featuring the death of Heather O'Rourke made me tear up. I have a daughter who just turned 13 and I can't imagine losing her. I feel for her parents, no Mom or Dad should ever have to bury a child.
My mother had me watching horror movies since I was little. Poltergeist is hands down my favorite. Rest in Piece, Heather…you’re a beautiful soul and your memory lives on. 🌹🖤
Same here. My mom lied about my age to get me into to see the Exorcist at the theater. It was her 2nd time watching it, and she wanted to share the experience with me.
The "hero" clown I suppose, the screen used one was in a display at Planet Hollywood in Vegas, Last I saw it was 2009-10 maybe? I immediately recognized it.
In a recent Clownfish TV video about Princess Leia's dress going up for auction, they mentioned that the clown doll from this movie is also up for auction.
Love the lineups and the hard work you put into this video. I love Poltergeist in spite of its cursed history. RIP to all the cast members who passed on and thank you for another sizzler!
Great job the scenery, is absolutely stunning! As a kid this movie scared the hell out of me but now as a grown adult it’s one of my favorites classic horror films. And I didn’t know about Heather’s condition and what happened to her and her on screen sister till much later in my adulthood. Thank you for showing this.
I was 11 when this came out. There was a small theater in my neighborhood that never cared what age you were so my friend and I went to see this movie. It scared the crap out of me back then, but is one of my all time favorite movies. It always takes me back to that time, which was so much fun. I can watch it over and over. It is so neat to see these filming locations! It's surreal to see the actual places. Thank you for taking us on this journey!
Jeez ares here in Jersey I had to have my mom sing a paper for me to see alien, then when Blair witch came out cops were standing at the entrance to the individual theater playing it checking IDs
@@joelamel8056 ha ha. Well it was 1982 and I didn't live in the best area. And the theater was a hole in the wall dollar show. They NEVER enforced any rules. Crazy to think of now though. I can't imagine any theaters I take my 12 year old to letting him in without me! 😂
@@triciag3311not sure if you're familiar with Joey Diaz but on a podcast he said same thing. He said he saw Excorcist and can't believe they let a pre teen watch it 😆 like throwing you to the wolves. Such a different time
This movie scared the crap out of me as a kid. Actually, even now when I watch it it leaves me feeling weird. It scared me more than the exorcist, especially what you said about those nightmares 😮💨. There was a tree by my bedroom window that I was terrified of because of this movie lol. Great video once again!
Another home run guys. This movie has such a special place in my heart. My cousin Dominique Dunne starred in this film. R.I.P. always in my thoughts and never forgotten. 😢
I saw Poltergeist in '82. It was one of the most talked about movies for like 2 years after that! It has always remained one of my all-time favorite movies, and oddly, I've always wondered what the motel room looked like. Thanks!
This movie is in constant rotation in my house. Just a great movie that scared the bejeebus out of me as a kid but continue to watch it to this day. Part 2 as well but part 3 not so much. RIP.
I really enjoy these filming location videos. I appreciate the time you spend telling stories as well as the history behind them and the area, and you are a good storyteller.
This is the movie that I think started the awareness for the paranormal which started the flood of movies and documentaries on the subject. I love how you create the flashback to the times when we first experienced these happenings. Very unique channel which I love for this reason. I appreciate your efforts to bring us this enjoyable and informative content. Please keep it coming!
Great job on this! I am sitting here on the streets of LA in my truck waiting for my broker to call to give me the info for what to pick up and take back to Georgia. I come across your documentaries in the past and truly enjoy them! This one is no exception! Awesome detail in everything you do! Helps me pass the wait time greatly! Also Poltergeist is one of my favorite horror movies! Thank you!!
Poltergeist war ein Meilenstein der Filmgeschichte. Ich wusste bislang nicht, das der Film im original auch Poltergeist heißt. Das ist ein deutsches Wort. Es ist seltsam die Drehorte nach so vielen Jahren wiederzusehen. Danke dafür.
It's sad what happened to several of the people who acted in these movies. I love all of these houses in this movie and the one that's in the ET movie too.
I love these kinds of videos! Your filming of movie locations is really cool! "Then and now" pictures are very interesting to me. Granted, I have not watched Poltergeist or any of the sequels, but I still enjoyed this video because of your enthusiasm for finding these places!
I lost count of how many times I've watched this movie. Every time it came on cable back in the day right after it came out of the theater, and then again on video and dvd. My favorite scary movie!! This was awesome, thank you for going to all of these great spots. Such nostalgia!! I kind of want to live there. I love how wide the streets are, not like it is now. Rest in peace Heather.
Very cool Michael. Good job lining up those shots. I'm of a similar age to you and Poltergiest scared the hell out of me when I was younger lol. Great movie! Really tragic what happened to Heather O'Rourke, she was a great little actress and a really sweet girl.
My brother went to middle school with her at TDS (Tierra del sol). It was surreal knowing he was in the same grade as Heather and then her dying within the same year. He said she was down to earth and not "Hollywood."
Very much so. She was "sneaky" in fights with her sister, and she and Jim loved to play practical jokes on Tammy. One invovled when Tammy snuck out, Heather told Jim and they locked her out of the house.
Since you showed the clip in your video, I thought I would mention that the line Jobeth Williams says, "Smell that Mimosa" (when they are standing by the moving truck), is a nod to the 1944 film "The Uninvited". The very same line is said by Ruth Hussey who starred along with Ray Milland and Gail Russell. One of my favorite old black and white ghost stories.
New to your channel, and I'm digging it. I'm a true crime fan, love serial killer docs, horror films. Anything dark really. Glad to see I'm not that strange in my fascination. :)
@@heatheroester6817 Hello, Heather ! Since Sally hasn't answered you yet, I will try to answer your question. I'm from Germany and as a longtime movie buff since nearly 5O years and avid lover of Hollywood blockbuster cinema I can tell you: No, we haven't ! This kind of movies, the horror genre in general, is pretty much neglected in the German movie production. Perhaps they think such movies are too trivial for them or they shy away from the big expenses for good and convincing special effects, which are an inevitable necessity for a good horror flick blockbuster. And surely they fear the comparison with the always technically perfect products from Hollywood of this genre.😉 The only movie that came close to a Hollywood horror flick was the German thriller "Anatomie" with Franka Potente. It was the biggest German movie hit in the year 2000. And if my memory serves it right, it also got an American made remake ! One of the very view times that such a thing happened to a German movie, to get a Hollywood remake. But the bulk of movies, which are annually produced in Germany during the last twenty years, are either social comedies ( mostly pretty silly ones imho ) and dramas or period movies like the recent new movie version of Erich Maria Remarque's famous novel "Im Westen Nichts Neues" ( "All Quiet On the Western Front"), which had recieved nine academy-award nominations and managed to win four at the recent acadamy award ceremony. This was the biggest success for a German co-produced movie since the six nominations in 1982 for Wolgang Petersen's ( r.i.p.) "Das Boot"( sadly winning none ). In order to find a real horror movie from Germany with a totally phantastic storyline you have to go back over 100 years in time to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's "Nosferatu - Eine Sinfonie des Grauens" ("Nosferatu - A Symphony of Terror" ) , which was the very first movie adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula"in movie history, albeit it had token a very free licence in it. So, it seems the Germans leave making these kind of blockbuster movies (horror, thriller and science fiction ) to Hollywood, because they know ,Hollywood is perfect and unsurpassable in producing such movies ! And by my rough estimation the annually proportion of US-produced movies in German movie-theaters is at least 70% ! And that is the case since the fifties of the last century, when the German public was absolutely eager to see American movies again, which were banned by the Nazis in 1937. Thus movies like Disney's"Snowwhite and the Seven Dwarfs" or "Gone With the Wind" had their German premiere over 15 years after their premiere in the USA, think about that ! And this preferation of American movies over the homeland-made movies by the German audience has remained the same ever since. Btw., if you didn't know this beforehand, in Germany most if not all American movies are dubbed into German ! And most German actors find more work in dubbing foreign movies than in acting in German movies. Because as said the number of foreign movies to get dubbed is much higher than the number of German movies produced in Germany.
Thanks for taking us back. Excellent job on the locations. One of the best paranormal movies of all time. Also what got me into Ghost Hunting. It’s amazing to see how some things look the same after all these years. Love your videos and thanks again!!
Great job! For future filming location videos. You should try to do split screen so we can see the old and new at the exact same time. I rarely see anyone do that. That would be a neat idea. Keep up the good work.
16:55 I wonder if the newer houses where the cemetery once sat have had THEIR bodies removed this time?...[along with the headstones🤣]....Classic this trilogy, especially the first one through and through. Excellent attention-to-detail with the shots of where foundations could be seen for today's houses on [what was then a new estate in the making] that was used for the filming location(s)....
Awesome! Thanks for how you portrayed Heather realistically and with dignity instead of of some disrespectful sensationalistic angle. Another great adventure!
Reading these comments makes me smile, and kinda makes my heart ache. This film is one of my all time faves,growing up with it was such a blast. I always loved horror films, but Poltergeist was the first film I watched not for the horror, or the monsters as a child. I watched it over and over for the characters. I was part of the family while watching it. Wonderful video, thank you!
Another fantastic video by the folks at GLC. The work that goes into finding even the subtlest of scenes is what sets them apart from others. Any chance we could see you do Tremors in the future? Well done guys!
Many Thanks for your great coverage of the movie location, and all the other location films you have done in the past. Lost Boys and Poltergeist are two of my all time great films.💯❤ The work you put in to your videos.Going to binge watch all 3 poltergeist films this weekend.
I want to say I'm so intrigued with your videos and your smooth expertise of how you commentate ...your editing is definitely a plus... excellent..I can't stop watching them...
I was 19 when this movie came out, but it holds a very special meaning for me. When I was a little boy, around the same age as Carol Anne, there were weird things happening to me, I had a real invisible friend that I used to play with, I would turn off a light switch, and he would turn it on, and I’d run away laughing, and I’d play this over and over, and one night my grandma was babysitting me, and it was raining and thundering outside, I opened our front door and the wind and rain was blowing inside, grandma come running over and said, “hey what are you doing?” and I said, I’m letting em in. Another time I was in the kitchen playing on the floor by myself, and my mom was the only other one home, and I was trying to go to where she was in the living room, but I couldn’t move, something was holding me back, I was trying to crawl up out of the kitchen and I COULD NOT MOVE, and just like in the movie when the lady said “ it’s like there’s a tickling in your stomach, and there’s no air, but you can breathe” That’s exactly what it felt like! Being only five, if I had to guess, this went on for about a year, but at this point, being held back by my invisible friend and not being able to move scared me, and that’s when things went from fun to scary, and I never went back into the kitchen alone after that, and that’s when it all stopped. I said all that to say this, it wasn’t until I saw the movie Poltergeist that I realized what was happening to me. Of course there were no scary monsters and toys flying through the air but, what happened to me was 100% real, and for the first time, in 1982, I told my family what happened to me, wether they believed me or not I’ll never know for sure, but I remember everything like it was yesterday, and I know first hand that’s there’s more out there than what we can see. I laugh at people who say ghosts aren’t real, they’ve just never had one as a playmate.
WOW thanks for sharing - scary but really interesting to read 😀 It is really odd, many experience the paranormal, and then many do not. My question has always been, why are some allowed to see the truth and others NEVER? I was an atheist, but then more and more happened and I realised there was something insane going on (I'm Catholic now lol), like another dimension, and it could EASILY interfere with us. I have WISHED for years more people could experience it as, in my opinion, that is the only true way to believe and understand what people like us have experienced, by seeing it yourself. Like my father, is a firm disbeliever and I get it, as he in his own words, has never experienced anything paranormal. I am forever grateful that I was shown (whether I like it or not 🤣) that there is more beyond, even though sometimes, it was as scary as Hell if I'm honest 😳 😆
Another brilliant video by the Grimm's, lot's of original stuff I ain't seen on any other RU-vid poltergeist location videos..... great work my son 👍😊🇬🇧
Her death impacted me as we were about the same age and Poltergeist was one of my favorite movies. As an adult I feel a deep connection to the other side. My childhood with these amazing movies had a huge impact on me. She will always be apart of that!! ❤❤❤
I’ll admit, I’ve never seen Poltergeist in its entirety. Just very small clips of it online. However, I do have a very distinct memory of seeing the last scene with the TV being rolled out of the room when I was a child. Definitely got to watch it in full now!!
To me this is by far the best horror ever made absolutely love it!!! And still very much watch it often to this day ❤ They’re Here , who can say it the same as Carolann 🙌
I swear, kids back in the 80's were so much more mature than they are today. When Jodie Kossel described Heather as being "delicate", I asked myself "Who says things like that?" I'm in my 30's, and I don't even use that vocabulary about a "sensitive person". I'm beyond impressed that Heather's classmate would be that considerate.
Thank you for showing locations I was 15 years old came out it was my favorite movie then and it still is now you go to the coolest locations thank you again have a great day
I've been to California about five times in my life, and it never occurred to me to tour the movie locations. I've even been in areas where movies were filmed! Like they live there is a scene where the lady was and you can see the 110 freeway in the background.
Thanks for all the great videos. I watch them all, I'd love to see you do a video on the movie twilight zone and the tragedy that happened while they were filming it.
I have watched this several times as well of most of your other videos. The work you do is amazing. when you line up shots , wow it is so cool. You guys are so informative and so easy to listen to. Thank you again
Ficou a lembrança daquela menina do olhar doce.. Tão pequena... Incrível! As locações permanecem quase inalteradas! Grato, amigo! Incredible! The locations remain almost unchanged! Thank you friend!
This movie is one of my all time favourite movies of all time. What I liked is that the movie was about a loving family that worked hard to get where they were and they made sure their family was well taken car of. The home was new, beautiful, and in a new housing development, it wasn't like some old ragged house that was haunted. I must have watched it over a 100 times and I still watch it at least once a month. When I was a kid there was a housing development in a huge forest by my house and the houses reminded me of the neighborhood in this movie. The once thing that stands out is that all the homes still look modern to this day even though they were built in the 70's.
I remember the Summer of '82 for many things. I was 13 and had just graduated grammar school while looking ahead to HS. The music of that particular year was epic and there were two particular movies (maybe 3-4) that everyone was talking about that sumner. The first was E.T. of course and if E.T. wasn't up for discussion then it was certainly Poltergeist (with Rocky III and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ranking up there, but i digress) At least for me, it was impossible to find anyone who disliked Poltergeist in the summer of '82; every teenager from my neighborhood to Tattooine loved-loved-loved that movie. Spielberg had himself a helluva summer in '82...and so did his audience. This film made me wish I lived in California for some reason back then. To anyone who is a GenXer reading this... Where were you in '82?
The houses are gorgeous in that area, so much character to them. Ironically enough, compared to the trailers narrative, they seem to all be individuals.
I love this movie. I live 5 minutes from what was Zelda Rubenstein's house in Silver Lake, and I had the opportunity to work a few times with Craig T. Nelson on his CBS series "The District" and "Parenthood" over at their Culver City Studios and Universal Studios.
When I watched the very first movie I was creeped out. But it was such a good scary movie. It was a sad day to hear that Heather had passed away. May she rest in peace. So young 😢🙏🏽🙏🏽Very good video showing the filming location’s thank you.
I grew up in the house with the 3 garage doors (across the street and to the left) and watched the movie being filmed when I was 5 or 6. My parents still live there. The Waters (owners of the Poltergeist house) have now passed on and the house is up for sale. I still remember the filming very well. They let Heather hang out with the neighborhood kids when she wasn't filming.
wow this was really in depth. from the house, the neighborhood and the hotel...and the fact its all still there other then some vegetation...very cool. Another enjoyable video.
