4. The curse of Poltergeist

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I have to admit that as a horror movie fanatic, I’m really not that crazy about Poltergeist. It is always mentioned in the same breath as classics such as Halloween and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but I am just not into it. I tried to revisit it again not too long ago, and I found it incredibly boring and tedious. Maybe I’m the crazy one?

Regardless of my opinion, Poltergeist is an extremely popular horror film and is consistently regarded as one of the better scary movies of the 1980s (the sequels are pretty hard to sit through, though…and that’s not just my opinion).

Tobe Hooper’s 1982 creeper about a family dealing with a serious haunting has had rumors swirling around it for years. In short, that people associated with the film became cursed and suffered untimely deaths. There is some truth to this story, as two actresses from the film died young: 22-year-old Dominique Dunne was murdered and 12-year-old Heather O’Rourke died of septic shock. The rumor associated with the film is that the skeletons used in the pool scene were not props, but the remains of dead people, and they exacted revenge. Don’t disturb the dead, people.