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Poltergeist (1982 film), the Glossary

Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais, and Mark Victor from a story by Spielberg.^[1]

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1980s supernatural films
1980s supernatural thriller films
1982 thriller films
Films directed by Tobe Hooper
Films produced by Frank Marshall
Films produced by Steven Spielberg
Films with screenplays by Mark Victor
Films with screenplays by Michael Grais
Poltergeist (franchise)

A Guy Named Joe

A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 American supernatural romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming.

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Award for Best Sound

The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing.

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Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the best achievement in visual effects.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes

Part of the American Film Institute's ''100 Years...'' series, AFI's 100 Years...

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AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Thrills is a list of the top 100 most exciting movies in American cinema.

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Ain't It Cool News

Ain't It Cool News (AICN) is an entertainment news website founded by Harry Knowles and run by his sister Dannie Knowles since September 2017, dedicated to news, rumors, and reviews of upcoming and current films, television, and comic book projects, with an emphasis on science fiction, superhero, fantasy, horror, and action genres.

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Alien (film)

Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Poltergeist (1982 film) and Alien (film) are films scored by Jerry Goldsmith.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Always (1989 film)

Always is a 1989 American romantic fantasy film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg. Poltergeist (1982 film) and Always (1989 film) are 1980s ghost films, Amblin Entertainment films, American ghost films, films produced by Frank Marshall and films produced by Steven Spielberg.

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Amazon MGM Studios

Amazon MGM Studios, formerly Amazon Studios, is an American film and television production and distribution studio owned by Amazon launched in 2010.

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Amblin Entertainment

Amblin' Entertainment, Inc., formerly named Amblin Productions and Steven Spielberg Productions, is an American film production company founded by director and producer Steven Spielberg, and film producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in 1980.

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Amblin Television

Storyteller TV Distribution Co., LLC, doing business as Amblin Television, is the television production division of Amblin Partners.

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AMC (TV channel)

AMC is an American basic cable television channel that first launched in 1984, and is the namesake flagship property of AMC Networks.

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American Dad!

American Dad! is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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American Dad! season 10

The tenth season of the American TV series American Dad! originally aired on Fox from September 29, 2013, to May 18, 2014, and consisted of 20 episodes.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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American Psycho (album)

American Psycho is the fourth studio album by the American punk rock band Misfits.

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Andrew Sarris

Andrew Sarris (October 31, 1928 – June 20, 2012) was an American film critic.

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Archaeological excavation

In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains.

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BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects

This is a list of winners and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects for each year.

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Beatrice Straight

Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2, 1914 – April 7, 2001) was an American theatre, film and television actress and a member of the prominent Whitney family.

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Betamax

Betamax (also known as Beta, as in its logo) is a consumer-level analog recording and cassette format of magnetic tape for video, commonly known as a video cassette recorder.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Bloody Disgusting

Bloody Disgusting is an American multi-media company, which began as a horror genre-focused news site/website specializing in information services that covered various horror medias, including: film, television, video games, comics, and music.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.

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Blumhouse Productions

Blumhouse Productions, LLC, doing business as Blumhouse (also known as BH Productions or simply BH), is an American independent film and television production company founded in 2000 by Jason Blum and Amy Israel.

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Box Office Mojo

Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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Bravo (American TV network)

Bravo is an American basic cable television network, launched on December 8, 1980.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Awards, is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Capacitance Electronic Disc

The Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) is an analog video disc playback system developed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA), in which video and audio could be played back on a TV set using a special stylus and high-density groove system similar to phonograph records.

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Chicago Film Critics Association

The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) is an association of professional film critics, who work in print, broadcast and online media, based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut.

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Collider (website)

Collider is an online entertainment publication, with a focus on the film industry and television series.

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Comedy horror

Comedy horror, also known as horror comedy, is a literary, television, and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction.

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Craig T. Nelson

Craig Theodore Nelson (born April 4, 1944) is an American actor.

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David Thomson (film critic)

David Thomson (born 18 February 1941) is a British film critic and historian based in the United States, and the author of more than 20 books.

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Death Hunt

Death Hunt is a 1981 Western action film directed by Peter Hunt.

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Directors Guild of America

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is an entertainment guild that represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad.

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Dirk Blocker

Dennis Dirk Blocker (born July 31, 1957) is an American actor.

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Dolly zoom

A dolly zoom (also known as a Hitchcock shot, Vertigo shot, Jaws effect, or Zolly shot) is an in-camera effect that appears to undermine normal visual perception.

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Dominique Dunne

Dominique Ellen Dunne (November 23, 1959 – November 4, 1982) was an American actress.

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DVD-Video

DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVDs.

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E! True Hollywood Story

E! True Hollywood Story is an American television documentary series on E! that pulls back the curtain and highlights some of pop culture's most fascinating people, moments and trends.

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (or simply E.T.) is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison. Poltergeist (1982 film) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial are Amblin Entertainment films and films produced by Steven Spielberg.

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Ectoplasm (paranormal)

In spiritualism, ectoplasm, also known as simply ecto, is a substance or spiritual energy "exteriorized" by physical mediums.

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Family Guy

Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Film Score Monthly

Film Score Monthly is an online magazine (and former print magazine) founded by editor-in-chief and executive producer Lukas Kendall in June 1990 as The Soundtrack Correspondence List.

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Filmsite

Filmsite is a film-review website established in 1996 by senior editor and film critic-historian Tim Dirks, and continues to be managed and edited by him for over two decades.

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Filmtracks

Filmtracks is a modern film score review website created and maintained by its sole reviewer, Christian Clemmensen.

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Francine Smith

Francine Lee Smith (formerly Ling; née Dawson) is a fictional character on the American animated sitcom American Dad! She is married to the main character, Stan Smith and the mother of Hayley and Steve Smith.

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Frank Marshall (filmmaker)

Frank Wilton Marshall (born September 13, 1946) is an American film producer and director.

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Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz, May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter.

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Gene Siskel

Eugene Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist.

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Ghost

In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a dead person or non-human animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living.

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Ghost story

A ghost story is any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them.

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Ghosthouse (film)

Ghosthouse (La casa 3–Ghosthouse) is a 1988 Italian horror film written and directed by Umberto Lenzi. Poltergeist (1982 film) and Ghosthouse (film) are 1980s ghost films and 1980s supernatural horror films.

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Gil Kenan

Gil Kenan (born October 16, 1976) is a British–American filmmaker.

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HD DVD

HD DVD (short for High Density Digital Versatile Disc) is an obsolete.

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Heather O'Rourke

Heather Michele O'Rourke (December 27, 1975 – February 1, 1988) was an American child actress.

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Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn is a chain of hotels based in Atlanta, Georgia and a brand of IHG Hotels & Resorts.

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Horror film

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.

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Horror punk

Horror punk is a music genre that mixes punk rock and 1950s-influenced doo-wop and rockabilly sounds with morbid and violent imagery and lyrics which are often influenced by horror films and science fiction B-movies.

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Industrial Light & Magic

Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects company that was founded on May 26, 1975 by George Lucas.

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James Kahn

James Kahn (born December 30, 1947) is an American medical specialist and writer, best known for his novelization of Return of the Jedi.

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James Karen

James Karen (born Jacob Karnofsky; November 28, 1923 – October 23, 2018) was an American character actor of Broadway, film and television.

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Jared Harris

Jared Francis Harris (born 24 August 1961) is a British actor.

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Jerry Goldsmith

Jerrald King Goldsmith (February 10, 1929July 21, 2004) was an American composer, with a career in film and television scoring that spanned nearly 50 years and over 200 productions, between 1954 and 2003.

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JoBeth Williams

Margaret JoBeth Williams (born December 6, 1948) is an American actress.

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John R. Leonetti

John Robert Leonetti, (born July 4, 1956) is an American cinematographer and film director.

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John Williams

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (November 15, 2022).

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Kensington Publishing

Kensington Publishing Corp. is an American, New Yorkbased publishing house founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius (1923–2011)Grimes, William.

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LaserDisc

The LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision (also known simply as "DiscoVision") in the United States in 1978.

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List of ghost films

Ghost movies and shows can fall into a wide range of genres, including romance, comedy, horror, juvenile interest, and drama.

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Little Girl Lost (The Twilight Zone)

"Little Girl Lost" is episode 91 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Poltergeist (1982 film) and Little Girl Lost (The Twilight Zone) are poltergeist (franchise).

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Los Angeles Herald Examiner

The Los Angeles Herald Examiner was a major Los Angeles daily newspaper, published in the afternoon from Monday to Friday and in the morning on Saturdays and Sundays.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lou Perryman

Louis Byron Perryman (August 15, 1941 – April 1, 2009), also known as Lou Perry, was an American character actor.

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Mark Victor

Mark Victor is a screenwriter.

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Matthew F. Leonetti

Matthew Frank Leonetti A.S.C. (born July 31, 1941) is an American cinematographer.

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Mediumship

Mediumship is the pseudoscientific practice of purportedly mediating communication between familiar spirits or spirits of the dead and living human beings.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.

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MGM Home Entertainment

MGM Home Entertainment LLC (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment, d/b/a MGM Home Entertainment and formerly known as MGM Home Video, MGM/CBS Home Video and MGM/UA Home Video) is the home entertainment distribution arm of the American media company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

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MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label founded by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack recordings (later LP albums) of their musical films.

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Michael Grais

Michael Grais is an American screenwriter, best known as the co-writer of Poltergeist (1982).

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Michael Kahn (film editor)

Michael Kahn (born December 8, 1930) "Q: Happy Birthday! You’re 80 years old today, is that right? A: No, closer to 85, actually!" is an American film editor known for his frequent collaboration with Steven Spielberg.

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Michael McManus (American actor)

Michael McManus (born January 26, 1946) is an American actor.

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Misfits (band)

The Misfits are an American punk rock band often recognized as the pioneers of the horror punk subgenre, blending punk and other musical influences with horror film themes and imagery.

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Motion Picture Association

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is an American trade association representing the five major film studios of the United States, as well as the video streaming service Netflix.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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Night Skies

Night Skies is an unproduced science fiction horror film that was in development in the late 1970s.

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Noise (video)

Noise, commonly known as static, white noise, static noise, or snow, in analog video and television, is a random dot pixel pattern of static displayed when no transmission signal is obtained by the antenna receiver of television sets and other display devices.

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Oliver Robins

Oliver Robins (born July 22, 1971) is an American actor, writer and director.

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Open letter

An open letter is a letter that is intended to be read by a wide audience, or a letter intended for an individual, but that is nonetheless widely distributed intentionally.

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Parapsychology

Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc.

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Peter Griffin

Peter Löwenbräu Griffin Sr. (born Justin Peter Griffin) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the American animated sitcom Family Guy.

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Petergeist

"Petergeist" is the 26th episode of the fourth season of the American animated series Family Guy, and the 76th episode overall. Poltergeist (1982 film) and Petergeist are poltergeist (franchise).

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A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land.

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Poltergeist

In German folklore and ghostlore, a poltergeist (or;; or) is a type of ghost or spirit that is responsible for physical disturbances, such as loud noises and objects being moved or destroyed.

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Poltergeist (2015 film)

Poltergeist is a 2015 American supernatural horror film directed by Gil Kenan, written by David Lindsay-Abaire, and produced by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Roy Lee. Poltergeist (1982 film) and Poltergeist (2015 film) are American ghost films, American haunted house films and poltergeist (franchise).

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Poltergeist II: The Other Side

Poltergeist II: The Other Side (also known simply as Poltergeist II) is a 1986 American supernatural horror film directed by Brian Gibson. Poltergeist (1982 film) and Poltergeist II: The Other Side are 1980s ghost films, 1980s supernatural horror films, American ghost films, American haunted house films, films scored by Jerry Goldsmith, films with screenplays by Mark Victor, films with screenplays by Michael Grais and poltergeist (franchise).

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Poltergeist III

Poltergeist III is a 1988 American supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Gary Sherman, and starring Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Heather O'Rourke and Zelda Rubinstein with the latter two reprising their roles from the previous films. Poltergeist (1982 film) and Poltergeist III are 1980s ghost films, 1980s supernatural horror films, American ghost films, American haunted house films and poltergeist (franchise).

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Review aggregator

A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews and ratings of products and services such as films, books, video games, music, software, hardware, and cars.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company (formerly Rhino Records Inc.) is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Richard Edlund

Richard Edlund, (born December 6, 1940) is an American visual effects artist and inventor.

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Richard Lawson (actor)

Rickey Lee Lawson (born March 7, 1947Collier, Aldore., Ebony, volume 47, number 9, July 1992, p. 32.) is an American actor who has starred in movies and on television.

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Richard Matheson

Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.

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Rob Tapert

Robert Gerard Tapert (born May 14, 1955) is an American film and television producer, writer and director, best known for co-creating the television series Xena: Warrior Princess.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.

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RogerEbert.com

RogerEbert.com is an American film review website that archives reviews written by film critic Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun-Times and also shares other critics' reviews and essays.

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Rosemarie DeWitt

Rosemarie Braddock DeWitt (born October 26, 1971) is an American actress.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Roy Lee

Roy Lee (born March 23, 1969) is a Korean-American film and television producer.

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Royal Wedding

Royal Wedding is a 1951 American musical comedy film directed by Stanley Donen, and starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.

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Rue Morgue (magazine)

Rue Morgue is a multinational magazine devoted to coverage of horror fiction.

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Russo brothers

Anthony Russo (born February 3, 1970) and Joseph Russo (born July 18, 1971), collectively known as the Russo brothers, are American directors, producers, and screenwriters.

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Sam Raimi

Samuel M. Raimi (born October 23, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Sam Rockwell

Sam Rockwell (born November 5, 1968) is an American actor.

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Saturn Award for Best Actress

The Saturn Award for Best Actress is one of the annual Saturn Awards given by the American professional organization, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

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Saturn Award for Best Director

The Saturn Award for Best Director (or Saturn Award for Best Direction) is one of the annual awards given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

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Saturn Award for Best Horror Film

The Saturn Awards for Best Horror Film is an award presented to the best film in the horror genre by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

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Saturn Award for Best Make-up

The Saturn Award for Best Make-up is one of the annual awards given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

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Saturn Award for Best Music

The Saturn Award for Best Music is one of the annual awards given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

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Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress

The following is a list of Saturn Award nominees and winners for Best Supporting Actress, which rewards the best female supporting performance in a genre film.

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Saturn Awards

The Saturn Awards are American awards presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

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Scary Movie 2

Scary Movie 2 is a 2001 American supernatural parody film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. Poltergeist (1982 film) and Scary Movie 2 are American haunted house films.

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Seth MacFarlane

Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, comedian, and singer.

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Sheila Benson

Sheila Benson (December 4, 1930February 23, 2022) was an American journalist and film critic.

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Simi Valley, California

Simi Valley (Chumash: Shimiyi) is a city in the valley of the same name in the southeast region of Ventura County, California, United States.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Snopes

Snopes, formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a fact-checking website.

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Sonny Landham

William M. "Sonny" Landham III (February 11, 1941 – August 17, 2017) was an American actor.

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Spencer Tracy

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor.

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Spice Girls

The Spice Girls were an English girl group formed in 1994, consisting of Mel B ("Scary Spice"); Melanie C ("Sporty Spice"); Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"); Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spice"); and Victoria Beckham ("Posh Spice").

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Star Wars (film)

Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox. Poltergeist (1982 film) and Star Wars (film) are BAFTA winners (films).

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Supernatural horror film

Supernatural horror film is a film genre that combines aspects of supernatural film and horror film.

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The 100 Scariest Movie Moments

The 100 Scariest Movie Moments is an American television documentary miniseries that aired in late October 2004, on Bravo.

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The Funhouse

The Funhouse is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Tobe Hooper, written by Larry Block and starring Elizabeth Berridge, Kevin Conway, William Finley, Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin, Largo Woodruff, Wayne Doba, and Sylvia Miles. Poltergeist (1982 film) and The Funhouse are films directed by Tobe Hooper.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The New Biographical Dictionary of Film

The New Biographical Dictionary of Film is a reference book written by film critic David Thomson, originally published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd in 1975 under the title A Biographical Dictionary of Cinema. Organized by personality, it is an almost exhaustive inventory of those involved in international cinema, whether contemporary or historical, elite or esoteric, "from Abbott and Costello to Crumb's Terry Zwigoff", in the words of critic Richard Corliss.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Numbers (website)

The Numbers is a film industry data website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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The Prize (1963 film)

The Prize is a 1963 American spy film and romantic comedy starring Paul Newman, Elke Sommer, and Edward G. Robinson. Poltergeist (1982 film) and The Prize (1963 film) are films scored by Jerry Goldsmith.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American independent horror film produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel. Poltergeist (1982 film) and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre are films directed by Tobe Hooper.

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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)

The Twilight Zone (marketed as Twilight Zone for its final two seasons) is an American fantasy science fiction horror anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from October 2, 1959, to June 19, 1964.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tobe Hooper

Willard Tobe Hooper (January 25, 1943 – August 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker, best known for his work in the horror genre.

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Too Much (Spice Girls song)

"Too Much" is a song by English girl group the Spice Girls from their second studio album, Spiceworld (1997).

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Treehouse of Horror

Treehouse of Horror is a series of annual Halloween-themed anthology episodes of the animated sitcom The Simpsons.

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Treehouse of Horror (The Simpsons episode)

"Treehouse of Horror" is the third episode of the second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.

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Turner Entertainment

Turner Entertainment Company is an American multimedia company founded by Ted Turner on August 2, 1986.

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TV.com

TV.com was a website owned by Red Ventures that covered television series and episodes with a focus on English-language shows made or broadcast in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

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Ultra HD Blu-ray

Ultra HD Blu-ray (4K Ultra HD, UHD-BD, or 4K Blu-ray) is a digital optical disc data storage format that is an enhanced variant of Blu-ray.

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Umberto Lenzi

Umberto Lenzi (6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and novelist.

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Universal Studios, Inc.

Universal Studios, Inc. (formerly as MCA Inc., also known simply as Universal) is an American media and entertainment conglomerate and is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.

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Universal's Halloween Horror Nights

Universal's Halloween Horror Nights is an annual Halloween-themed event at Universal Studios theme parks in Orlando, Hollywood, Japan and Singapore.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Vengeful ghost

In mythology and folklore, a vengeful ghost or vengeful spirit is said to be the spirit of a dead person who returns from the afterlife to seek revenge for a cruel, unnatural or unjust death.

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VHS

The VHS (Video Home System) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC).

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Vincent Canby

Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000.

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Visual effects

Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production.

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Vulture (website)

Vulture is an American entertainment news website.

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W (magazine)

W is an American fashion magazine that features stories about style through the lens of culture, fashion, art, celebrity, and film.

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Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment

Warner Bros.

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Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.

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Web archiving

Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web to ensure the information is preserved in an archive for future researchers, historians, and the public.

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Young Artist Award

The Young Artist Award (originally known as the Youth in Film Award) is an accolade presented by the Young Artist Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1978 to honor excellence of youth performers, and to provide scholarships for young artists who may be physically disabled or financially unstable.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist_(1982_film)

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