Poltergeist (1982) Movie Reaction! (they're here!) *First Time Watching* 

"They're here." Fun Fact: Heather O'Rourke kept the pet goldfish Carol Anne has in the film. Bonus Fact: The hands which pull the flesh off the investigator's face in the bathroom mirror were the film's producer, Steven Spielberg. Bonus Fact: The shot of the chairs that position themselves in the amazing balancing act on the table was all done in one take. As the camera panned along with JoBeth Williams, who was getting some cleaning materials, several crew members quickly set an already organized pyramid of chairs on the table, then took the single chairs away before the camera scrolled back. The table is off-screen only seven seconds. The chrome toaster on the kitchen counter reflects the crew switching the chair arrangement. Moreover, the leaves of the plant in the corner get disturbed.

this is back when TV channels weren't 24/7, there was a time they shut off. the National Anthem would play as a signal, then it would just display static until the morning. the ghosts, however, were not a usual feature

RIP Dominique Dunne (Dana) 23 November 1959-4 November 1982. Murdered by her ex-boyfriend. RIP Heather O’Rourke (Carol Anne) 27 December 1975-1 February 1988 Who died from a misdiagnosed bowel destruction caused by a birth defect that resulted in septic shock. She was originally diagnosed with Crohn’s disease.

"Apparently there's people in our house... Don't know why they're not paying rent" Lmao, you crack me up xD

Alex talking about Heather O'Rourke: I just know she going to grow up to a teenager Me: Umm.....no unfortunately.

They used real human remains in the pool scene 😭

Regarding the NATIONAL ANTHEM :P In the old days (70's-80's) TV went off the air at midnight (roughly). The last thing played was the National Anthem and then the TV would go to static until roughly 5 or 6am. And yes, TV remote controls could be on the same signal. They were very simple InfraRed and people with the same TV model all had the same remote and signal.

That wasn’t a smartphone that Dana was on - it was the home’s landline lol

0:33 "came out in 1902......"

Back then, the national anthem would play whenever a station went off for the night. They likely fell asleep watching something else 😏

To answer your question. While fish do not sleep in the same way that land mammals sleep, most fish do rest. Research shows that fish may reduce their activity and metabolism while remaining alert to danger. Some fish float in place, some wedge themselves into a secure spot in the mud or coral, and some even locate a suitable nest.

Those were actual skeletons in the pool btw

You should read up on the Poltergeist movie curse. Quite disturbing

“its funny how some americans sleep with with the american theme song playing” so according to my grandfather, back then tv chanels only ran till like 12 AM-10 PM or something like that. so, after the chanels finish through all the shows, the national anthem would play then static

I love your reactions, thank you for watching movies that scare you for our entertainment 😂

TV use to go off air at midnight back in the day. The Anthem was the sign off.

you are easily one of my favourite reactors! love your content & milo :)

The little girl actress died not long after she filmed the movies. People say that she died under mysterious circumstances.

"i just knows she will grow up to be a teenager" ..... should we tell him?

The reason the American national anthem was playing is because back then at a certain time at night that would play which means no more tv programs are showing

I just discovered your channel a day or so ago and I've been binging your videos ever since. My dad and I watched a lot of these classic horror movies when I was a kid (probably too early for me to be seeing them lol) and it's awesome to see you discover them for the first time!

also, don't expect to see the teenage daughter in any of the sequels, the actress was murdered by her ex-boyfriend a few months after the release of this movie.

Almost broke my wrist from pushing watch so fast 😜 When I was a child this movie scared the shit out of me. (I'm 32 now) And the skeletons in this movie are actual real corpses. The movie is said to be cursed. A lot of the actors died in weird ways a few years after it. Can't remember the specifics. But ya. XD

(I'm 100yrs old) I was 12yrs old in 1982. This came out one week before Spielberg's other movie, "E.T." I loved them both so much, I saw them both 2times in theaters.😁

Man i love u as a person so much, i can't choose another reaction channel that's as exquisite, magnificent, and comedic as u are puggapillar.

love the horror content, your reactions are always great!

Oh the reason the national anthem was playing was cuz in the 80s some TVs stopped playing at night and before the ones in the us turned off they would play the national anthem then go to static

In the remake from the 2010s (im too lazy to search the actual date it was released) you do end up seeing what the other side looks like!

Yes, that is the actress who plays the medium's real voice. She was on some late night shows afterwards and she was quite funny.

When you talk about the little girl becoming a teenager & the actress died at 12 🫠

Tobe hooper died 7 years ago

There is a deleted scene from this movie that occurs during the kitchen floor scene. Carol Ann says she's hungry and her mom says ok we'll go for pizza after and her dad says as long as it's not pizza hut, I hate pizza hut. Pizza hut did not like this and said they would sue for using their trademarked name, so they cut that part of the scene out

Part II is actually called The Otherside, so if you react to it then you'll see the flipside of the floorgina!

DUDE YES ! I love this movie. The remake was a damn joke though lmao.

Hey, Pug? POLTERGEIST 2: THE OTHER SIDE. Time for the next one! (PLEASE don't do like you did Texas Chainsaw Massacre and skip to the newest one, you missed a lot by skipping TCM part 2).

Never noticed until now, at 23:58 you'll notice that the Staircase and door on left, do not match the staircase and door on the monitor. The door is open on the monitor, and there's no hallway. The Ghosts are very crazy nitpickers when it comes to illusions.

I truly blame this movie for my fear of clowns. And IT solidified it. Also for the lion roaring opening I believe they used a total of 50 lions in the time they used that opening. Lol if that makes sense and or is real lol

I saw this movie when I was two yrs old. In apartment that was across from a cemetery. Yes we had activity in the apt! My mother used to see a little boy running around when she was all alone. Once, she set my newborn bro down for a nap in our bedroom and he started crying a bit later. She went to check on him and the door was suddenly shut and wouldn’t open! When she finally got it open, my little Playschool kitchen was jammed up against the door and my bro had a blanket over his whole body. 😳 We also survived the 94’ Northridge, California quake in that apt. I thought it was ghosts at first 😅

9:52 The American theme song 😂

27:48 if i found out someone built my house on a cemetery and they didn't tell and my house starts getting haunted I'm suing the real estate company

Clowns don't freak me out. THAT clown freaked me out

I would love to see your "Poltergeist 2" reaction. Memorable villain in that.

40:10 I'm surprised that didn't happen to the whole neighborhood since the whole thing was built on a graveyard

3:26 "God, there wasn't even an epilepsy warning at the start..." 😆😆 Hee, hee - that's cute. This was made in '82. There definitely weren't any epilepsy warnings - on anything😅. And, yeah, there were a Lot of unfortunate headrests on beds in the '80's. Lots of brass and wicker😝.

Wifey has gon a little bonkers, next time she's gonna attack u while sleepin 😹

27:00 Actually the child who played Carol Ann died during the filming of the third Poltergeist movie.

She took the bath because she died her hair, because when she went into the light to get Carol Ann it turned part of her hair gray

You know what's the craziest thing about this movie? People watched this with their little kids on TV, because that's what we did, watch TV with our kids. This is how I experienced movies like Alien, Poltergeist and Nightmare on Elm Street, by watching it as a little kid with my parents. And then talk about it with my classmates at school, who've also watched it. Plus, Steven Spielberg wanted this to be a movie for the entire family to enjoy. That's why it's rather 'tame' for a horror movie. Before you ask if I'm still sane, of course I am. The people diagnosing us are the same psychiatrists who've watched these movies as a kid as well, so they're not biased ;)

technically fish do NOT sleep, although they do rest, but they can't fully sleep like land mammals because they need to be on constant alert for danger 🙂

I always liked the sassy little psychic woman.

Hahah!!! You are killing me with the American Theme song 😂😂

Oh those skeletons in the pool were actual real corpses

There were actually 11 different lions for MGM but Leo the Lion was the original back in 1957.

The guy tearing his face off just came out of nowhere. There was no real gore in this film up until then. Exploding rotten steak was the worst of it. Then a guy peels his own face off in chunks.

The little boy reminds me of Andy from Chucky lol

Hey there I just gotta say I appreciate you and the wonderful videos you make. Fun fact, there was a poltergeist curse. Like the skeletons in the pool some of them were real. The sister in the first movie is killed by her boyfriend. The third movie was being filmed and the beautiful little girl who played Carol Anne dies. My heart goes out to all the people who got hurt or cursed during these movies.

9:51 if you think about it the national anthem of every country is the theme song of every country

the people in your house could at least help with rent. the nerve 🙄

Wait did he say it came out in 1902

Look up the Poltergeist curse. So much has surrounded these movies.

a sleep talker AND a sleep walker? You guys should take that act on the road!

I love this movie, and your reactions are great! Just a bit of info from a GenXer from the States: Back in the day, TV stations would play the national anthem at the end of airing, and then there was static. So no one fell asleep watching "The Star-Spangled Banner", they fell asleep to whatever was on beforehand 😉

We didn’t have epilepsy in the 80s

One of my favourite movies!!! So glad you reacted to this

30:12 Her whispering about the evil entity always creeped me out. Just the thought of an evil being lying and deceiving an innocent child really makes me 😬...

Watched this movie heaps of times, they actually used real skeletons in the pool and coffins without telling the mum, creepy.

This movie was nominated for 3 Oscars. SOUND EDITING, SCORE, VISUAL EFFECTS it lost all 3 to Spielberg's other hit, "E.T."

The reason why they didn't show the other side is they wanted you to imagine what it looked like to make it creepier thinking of the unknown

The house being sucked in was pretty cool. ILM built a scale model of the house (which was still pretty huge, apparently it included miniature interior furniture) on top of an industrial vacuum turbine. They shot it from above and over-cranked the the film at an astonishingly high frame rate, then literally blasted the house model with shotguns to destroy it so it would get sucked in. When they ran the film at normal speed, you get the slow-motion destruction and compression in the film. It was one of those "we only get to do one take of this" shots and they got it.

They filmed this movie in my hometown Simi Valley, CA

New subscriber here! Love your reactions and so excited to go through all the classic horror films with you!! Much love from Florida 💜💜💜

My siblings and I refer to our resident ghost a as “billy” too 😂

From what I’m told before cable there was only a few channels an they only played till like 2 am let’s say and right before they turned off they would play a song or commercial before they shut off, so they weren’t really going to sleep listening to The national anthem 😂

This got a PG at the time. PG-13 didn't exist yet so you only had G, PG, and R.

"They're heeeerrrrreeeee" One of the most iconic lines in film. Almost beyond a pop culture line. If it is said in America, particularly people who grew up with the film, you know exactly what movie is being referenced. Almost like saying "It rubs the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again."

If you get cremated there is a time when your body is perfectly cooked

In the swimming pool scene those were real skeletons. Because it was cheaper to get real than fake ones

Don't know if anyone else has said but when she fell in the pool and the skeletons popped up, they were real skeletons

WTF IS HAPPENING?!?! I clicked on “American Psycho”, then quickly clicked on “Poltergeist” instead, & it’s showing the info & comment section for “Poltergeist”, but the video is “American Psycho”! Wtf 😮

1902? Okay if u say so Alex🤣💜

Depressing fact. The older Sister was murdered in real life by her boyfriend a few weeks after the films release

love Poltergeist.

Wicker furniture was a huge thing back in the day everybody had a piece of wicker furniture. It's so ugly I'm glad that it's not popular anymore!

What did you call the thing you need on when you're sleeping? Doona? Douna? Doonah? What is that? Also, back in the day, the local TV stations would play the national anthem every night before signing off for the night (because there wasn't 24/7 stations at all).

Fun fact, they used real bodies, for the pool scene.

Great stuff brother well-done i watched your video while waiting for Xbox showcase always love your videos brother keep up the good work brother 👌👍

this poor girl, breaks my heart knowing what happened to her. RIP

I love this movie, but I have to divert my eyes at the beginning of the movie because the flashing lights give me a migraine if I look directly at it, and it was the 80s they didn't really put warnings on any movie lol

love your content you all ways make my happy when i am sad thank you

Damn classic 👊🏻

32:15 imagine what would happen if you tried to nuke the other dimension

Your vids are always a good time. 👍

Thank you for your reactions I enjoy all of your videos 😂😂😊

Clown scene... Your reaction. Me: 😈🤡

Considering Whales sleep Horizontally, im almost certain that fish sleep too

Yippee ! Can’t wait to watch … starting now

I think the MGM lion got out down after intro was made the lion attacked the handlers I think

That’s her actual voice

Cucumber

American 80s movies : are the best ^^