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"poltergeist" Definitions
  1. a ghost that makes loud noises and throws objects

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Poltergeist, the films of John Hughes, Stand By Me, E.T., Poltergeist — the gang's all here.
Poltergeist is available to rent or purchase on Prime Video.
Maybe you will spy a pig poltergeist in the night?
Is that actually the creepy preacher character from Poltergeist II?
So what really happened during the case of the Enfield Poltergeist?
There were a few other poltergeist-esque encounters during the year.
The song is splintered and aggressive, like a much more unsettling Poltergeist theme.
It may not be poltergeist activity, but it's still mysterious to the teams.
No, those noises could have come from nothing other than a genuine poltergeist.
From unexplained bruising to an alleged water poltergeist, the CU has seen it all.
James Karen, best known for Poltergeist and Return of the Living Dead, has died.
He was a poltergeist in a parka, a Charles Boyer on little cat feet.
That's included movies like Poltergeist, Let the Right One In, Aliens, and even The Matrix.
Put both of your hands on the screen for a real Poltergeist of a ride.
My grandad thought, 'Sure!' and fell asleep on the sofa, leaving me alone to watch Poltergeist.
It is a ghost story, and Nat Turner is its poltergeist, dashing pottery against America's walls.
The Conjuring 2 focuses on one of the most famous supernatural cases in history – The Enfield Poltergeist.
"It's a bit like 'Poltergeist,' " Nigella Lawson, who was Bourdain's co-host on "The Taste," told me.
The match is now the ghost of a title decider, haunting the fixture list like a melancholy poltergeist.
Native people are the vengeful spirits in Poltergeist or the founders of that nightmare graveyard in Pet Sematary.
In addition to Stranger Things, the parks will also feature pop-culture inspired Poltergeist and Halloween 4 houses.  
In some cases, the electrical poltergeist in the wires seemed to make the telegraphs work better than usual.
No, you don't have to keep an eye out for an apparition or poltergeist activity, you're watching an escape.
There are the families dealing with evil incursions into their previously stable lives in Poltergeist, Insidious, and The Exorcist.
It's funny, we talk internally about how Ordinary People is the same as Poltergeist, if you think about it.
Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist director Tobe Hooper has died at the age of 74, according to Variety.
Handy would also like you to know that they are not legally responsible if a poltergeist ruins your life.
This makes your avatar disappear from others' maps; like true poltergeist, you can see others but they can't see you.
The reticule, a small, highly decorated purse, was born — and like a pernicious poltergeist, it has never really gone away.
The first season already pulled from the likes of E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Poltergeist, and Firestarter, just to name a few.
The film was a major influence on Tobe Hooper when he created Poltergeist, as well as John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.
That said, some fairly unconventional and strange names were selected in the 2015 contest, including Spe, Orbitar, Poltergeist, Dagon, and AEgir.
His 1982 horror flick, Poltergeist, a ghostly fairy tale that did for haunted house stories what Chainsaw did gruesome shock horror.
And that's something that Spielberg did so well — the family drama in Poltergeist and in Jaws, it was always so authentic.
"Poltergeist," a box office hit, found Mr. Hooper working with Mr. Spielberg, who was one of the movie's producers and writers.
The boy is illuminated by the lights on the buttons which have gone full Poltergeist at this point, and our movie ends.
The ultimate '80s horror movie, 1982's Poltergeist, is heeeeeeere — and coming straight through the static-filled TV screen into your face.
But I swear "shlock" would be offended if it were used to describe titles like American Poltergeist, The Disappointments Room, and #Horror.
As a guilty-town ghost story, "The Fog" has a generic resemblance to "Poltergeist," which it predates, and is even more emphatic.
He remains there for months, becoming something of a living poltergeist, invisibly haunting the domestic space that had once belonged to him.
Poltergeist, directed by Toby Hooper (of Texas Chainsaw Massacre fame) and co-written by Steven Spielberg, was a childhood obsession for us.
This time around I caught some Poltergeist allusions thanks to Eleven's (Millie Bobby Brown) use of the TV as a psychic communication device.
Poltergeist is a movie about a family dealing with demons, and crumbling, and having to face those demons -- and so is Ordinary People.
I grew up on scary and spooky movies, whether it was A Nightmare on Elm Street, Poltergeist, or the Friday the 13th series.
"This is just my tenderness/My wretchedness/I'm a pessimist," he mutters—and also, as he's mentioned before, a poltergeist: an invisible disruptor.
He played the boss of Jane Fonda's character in "The China Syndrome" (21947) and a real estate agent in the original "Poltergeist" (21970).
BlasphemyDAY 3 My hangover avenged itself as a poltergeist and left me again with no other option than just to continue drinking... a lot.
On rare occasions, he wields the powers of a poltergeist—causing the lights to flicker in fury, say, when she brings a guy home.
Keel was convinced that all the strange happenings, which included a number of cases of alleged poltergeist activity in the Ohio Valley, were linked.
Poltergeists. And while Holzer tells me that 'poltergeist' means 'noisy ghost' in German, it clearly isn't as cutesy as the translation makes it sound.
Yes, he's aware that strange psychic phenomena seem to haunt him in times of stress, from disembodied voices to "Poltergeist"-style flying household objects.
Shene's poltergeist unfiltered gin captured the top award, double-gold, in 2018 at the San Francisco World Spirit Competition for the second year running.
Unlike the familial trauma on display in Hereditary, The Ring, Paranormal Activity, Poltergeist, The Shining, Amityville Horror, Rosemary's Baby, the evil is not from without.
Second – and here's where my linguistic nerd comes out – German's grammar collapses two or several concepts into single words (like poltergeist, which means "noisy ghost").
In a flashback, Winona Ryder's character Joyce Byers remembers finding her son Will in his den out in the woods, and surprising him with Poltergeist tickets.
Narrating the scene, Peele discusses how he was inspired by scenes from the movies "Halloween" and "Poltergeist" in the way he built suspense in the sequence.
Similar to the release of Wes Craven's "Scream," or Tobe Hooper's "Poltergeist," the film perfectly captures the fears of the culture at the moment of its release.
If you're someone who blurs fact and fiction then things just got a lot spookier because that means the demonic sewer character is ba-ack, Poltergeist-style.
Note: Debunked claims (like those surrounding the Poltergeist trilogy) and on-set accidents (like the tragic helicopter crash of the Twilight Zone movie) have not been included.
From 1977 to 1979, the real Hodgson family reported a series of poltergeist events in their house: moving furniture, spooky voices, an unseen force levitating the children.
But to the people who kept stopping Ms. Marton to take selfies, the "Poltergeist"-themed looks were evidence not of a deranged mother, but an awesome one.
The very first movie I ever made when I got a camcorder, when I was 7 years old, was called Poltergeist and starred my brother in a bedsheet.
And throughout the show, we're inundated to references to the decade's sci-fi conspiracy flicks (Firestarter, Scanners), adolescent-adventure tales (It, The Goonies), and horror-flicks (Evil Dead, Poltergeist).
In the same way that similar allegations have been made about the Omen movies and Rosemary's Baby, there's a longstanding rumor of a curse attached to the Poltergeist movies.
Dark and drum-heavy with eerie flute-work and warped, childlike vocal melodies, it offers the ominous yet playful feel of a poltergeist who fills your pillow with spiders.
"Time is money and the stages were expensive and I'm a 23-year-old guy sitting there working on Poltergeist with Steven Spielberg sitting behind me," O'Connell told NPR.
Haunted Indian burial grounds have appeared since in Poltergeist II, in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining, and in countless lesser-known films, novels, and TV shows.
At some points, Ed Warren is a ruthless businessman, pushing the demonologist #brand; at others, he's Craig T. Nelson in Poltergeist, desperately fighting a personal battle against the incomprehensible.
But everything changed when one of Dunne's children, Poltergeist actress Dominique Dunne, was strangled to death by her abusive ex-boyfriend — and the killer received a mere manslaughter conviction.
Amazon Prime will be adding its own selection of horror, including Poltergeist II: The Other Side, Pumpkinhead, the first two Ghostbusters films, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (egads!).
As a child, watching "Poltergeist," a 1982 film that follows a white middle-class family moving into their suburban house, I recognized that their normal was not my normal.
Six months after finishing my bachelor's degree, this was how I found myself: a post-grad poltergeist haunting my New York City abode like a metropolitan Boo Radley. Isolated. Lonely.
Outside in the car, Owen's reading a book when he sees a photograph of a woman identified as Olivia Meadows, the "emotional poltergeist" whom Owen screamed at during his BLIP.
But the perfumes from her new collection, Henry Rose, range from the delightfully disorienting (like a Jeff Koons balloon dog) to the unsettling, like a Spielbergian poltergeist-filled TV screen.
There's also a makeover and Zelda Rubinstein, known for her work as the creepy medium Tangina in the Poltergeist franchise, as a slightly less creepy but still strange Madame Serena.
The Steven Spielberg movie was supposed to be a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but instead the material was used in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Poltergeist.
Claire Kretzschmar, 24, new to the Sleepwalker on Sunday afternoon and to the company in 2011, has the part's eerie radiance and breeze-like impulsiveness; she's like a Romantic poltergeist.
Another Night Shift short story, "The Boogeyman" tells the classic demon/poltergeist tale of a family pursued by a horrifying supernatural entity that may or may not be murdering children.
Thus, "The Witch" provides a kind of back story for movies like "The Shining" and "Poltergeist," as well as, most obviously, "The Blair Witch Project," in dramatizing a primal American unease.
I attempted to pour milk on a bowl cereal, get my blood sugar going, but everything flew back into the cupboards as if at the behest of a poltergeist Mary Poppins.
However, The Hollywood Reporter writes that McKay has chosen to go a different route and has cast Sam Rockwell (Confessions of a Dangerous Man, Seven Psychopaths, 2015's Poltergeist) to fill W's shoes.
That's probably The Exorcist or Poltergeist—neither of which is a comedy, but both of which have also been rebooted, and at least one of which let a woman take on the apparitions.
In their place lie some well-to-do shops and residences, the inhabitants of which presumably have yet to witness the cautionary tales of former-burial-ground living (see The Shining and Poltergeist).
The invitations to the two girls had come because Eleanor as a child had been close to poltergeist phenomena (which she does not remember), and Theodora has a record of marked extrasensory perception.
" I said, then quickly realized that wasn't quite accurate and qualified the statement accordingly: "It's scary in the way that Poltergeist is scary when you stumble across it on TV when you're 8.
Sip one of the 27 Tasmanian gins on the menu (Hartshorn Sheep Whey, 14 Australian dollars, and Poltergeist Unfiltered, 15 Australian dollars, are highly recommended) and take in the Hobart history around you.
After creating the Seattle International Film Festival at a young age with his childhood friend Darryl Macdonald, Ireland was able to secure world premieres for films like Alien, The Empire Strikes Back and Poltergeist.
" With "The Conjuring 2," he said, "I really wanted to try and bring the kind of respect back to studio horror filmmaking — 'Jaws,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Poltergeist,' 'The Amityville Horror,' these were big studio films.
I grew up on movies like Poltergeist, The Thing, Evil Dead 2, Fright Night, Return of the Living Dead, and so on, and I was a voracious reader of horror as a teenager, as well.
After calling the company and playing poltergeist for a few hours, she is forced out of her home, and fsociety is free to move in and celebrate their recent castration of the Wall Street bull.
"To think of people buried in your backyard — it's like the movie 'Poltergeist,'" she added, referring to the 1982 horror film about a real estate executive whose family's haunted house was built atop a cemetery.
American paranormal experts Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) are brought in to assist a miserable family driven from their ugly suburban London home in Enfield by a poltergeist that assumes different forms.
It could've been a disaster ("Rock'n'Roll Star" or "Starry Bunnies" were two of the initial submissions), but many of the approved names were actually quite beautiful, from Veritate, Hypatia, and Orbitar to Dagon, Poltergeist, and Dulcinea.
But there are also the "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" (1988), the scary clown doll under the bed in "Poltergeist" (1982), the zombie clown in "Zombieland" (2009) and the murderous clown in "All Hallow's Eve" (2013).
They heard disembodied voices, experienced poltergeist activity, witnessed horrible monsters emerging from portals, and claimed they encountered a wolf that, when shot several times by a high powered rifle at point blank range, did not die.
Eleanor's mother thinks vicious neighbors are responsible; Eleanor and her sister blame each other; but the strongest suggestion is that the stones are the work of Eleanor's poltergeist, a paranormal manifestation of her rage and unhappiness.
Many children had terrified reactions to seeing these two famous clowns everywhere, or to having clown memorabilia foisted on them by well-meaning adults — an anxiety most notably typified by the famous clown scene in Poltergeist.
Wan also embraces the horror movie tradition of homage: nods to the new-age fantasy of Insidious, Asian horror tropes, and, of course, The Conjuring's forbearers Poltergeist, The Amityville Horror, and The Exorcist are on full display.
Viewing their poltergeist as an opportunity, Brock attempts to deconstruct the creepiness, find a hard science behind hauntings in hopes of discovering a new form of telecommunications that could be encrypted for only certain parties to interpret.
The service is also adding the original Poltergeist — a family holiday classic — and to remind you just how good that movie was back in 173, it's also adding the 2015 remake for an easy (if depressing) comparison.
The 70s gave us terrifying revenge spectacles and spine-chilling predation tales in Carrie and Halloween, while the 80s arrived with a goldmine of A-grade scares, like The Shining, Poltergeist, and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
They've never seen black ooze dripping from the walls or spotted a poltergeist in the bathroom mirror or anything, but from the sound of the ad, they seem to be taking the whole haunted house thing pretty seriously.
But there are also the "Killer Klowns from Outer Space" (1988), the scary clown doll under the bed in "Poltergeist" (1982), the zombie clown in "Zombieland" (2009) and, most recently, the murderous clown in "All Hallows' Eve" (2013).
And there was the question of his records and what would happen with his records and certain billing records, which went around like poltergeist before they eventually ended up at the Williams, Connolly law office -- the Clintons' lawyers.
If it ends with a yawp of tragicomedy in the Elvis Presley story, "Doppelgänger, Poltergeist," it's only to remind us that Dante, too, was a toiler in the comedic fields, no matter how brutal and austere his triune cosmogony.
" The production is short on the transformative stage magic that I associate with Improbable, whose work includes the enchanting "70 Hill Lane," about a homey encounter with a poltergeist, and a hypnotic staging of the Philip Glass opera "Satyagraha.
Sure, there may or may not be a poltergeist, and it may or may not be psychological in origin, but what Abrahamson is mainly concerned with is what the Hundreds Hall inhabitants are experiencing as Faraday steadily encroaches upon their lives.
Maybe what we share when we submit views for changing is not the view itself as much as those poltergeist doubts that haunt all of us—about our motives, our capacity to reason, our politics, our principles, even our essential goodness.
Their problem is the same problem that haunts Ready Player One from its first page to its last, like a vengeful poltergeist: the desire to indulge in playful, optimistic nostalgia about your favorite things while the world falls down around you.
And ever since Carol Anne reached out for the telly in Spielberg's Poltergeist, the horror genre has been preoccupied with the thought that our radios and phones and screens could be acting as a handy transport system for pissed off demons.
The image of a ghostly woman seemingly lit up by the reflection of a television set evokes similar scenes in Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist, or even the scene of the ghostly Samara crawling through a TV in the J-horror classic Ringu.
The result is that we tend to find a shocking number of seminal films lurking in the technical categories, including horror film royalty like James Whale's masterpiece Bride of Frankenstein (22017), The Birds (1963), Poltergeist (1982), and Interview with the Vampire (1994).
In the Poltergeist, he portrayed real-estate developer Mr. Teague who built a California housing community on top of a former cemetery which spawned the iconic moment in which Teague reveals he only removed the headstones from the graveyard but not the bodies.
In the early 1980s, when the excellent, desperately nostalgic Netflix series Stranger Things is set, children watched E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial; teenagers flocked to see Tom Cruise in All the Right Moves; and adults had the good-humored horror picture Poltergeist.
In 1982, it was the "me generation," capitalism at all costs, setting the stage for the plot line of suburban greed in "Poltergeist," which resulted in evil spirits torturing a 1980s nuclear family who were the perfect embodiment of the lives Americans wanted for themselves.
Now, as the venue celebrates 19 years at its downtown location this month, alums and filmmakers Gil Keenan ( Monster House, Poltergeist) and Vice Cooler (Feist/Mastodon's html5 video, Deerhoof's "Exit Only" with Michael Shannon) have found another way to help keep The Smell alive.
You could spin all sorts of theories — from the tragic (in which they're the abandoned pets of our home's former owners) to the "Poltergeist" (in which the house was built on a turtle burying ground) to the practical (in which they're begging for food).
Documented public scares surrounding creepy clown sightings date back to May 1981 (a year before Poltergeist and a whole five years before the publication of Stephen King's It), when a group of school children in Brookline, Massachusetts, reported seeing scary clowns in a black van.
It's closer in scope and temperament to Poltergeist – more expansive about conjuring up shocks and suspense and, from time to time, just letting the pace slacken so that Ed and Lorraine can talk while everyone breathes in the dank British air and basks in the sunlight that doesn't exist.
It does try its best to steal from smarter films, at least: The film is rife with meta-references to the Child's Play franchise, and it winks at everything from 2001's evil artificial intelligence Hal to Poltergeist, Halloween 3, and the viral horror game Five Nights at Freddy's.
That's the reality Stephen King lived in in 1986 when he wrote the bestselling book It, the world Tobe Hooper lived in when he created the horrifying clown attack scene in Poltergeist in 1982, and it's also the world Bob Kane lived in when he created the Joker in 1940.
Helga's family neglects her to the point that she barely feels like more than a poltergeist in their presence; her mother even drinks "smoothies" that the Hey Arnold sound team would slyly amp up with clinking ice sounds to hint that there's always a shot of liquid courage floating around in there.
In the sequel to his box office smash, Wan has taken another great risk: telling the Warrens' version of the Enfield Poltergeist story, a tale so well-known in popular culture as a proven hoax that not even the real-life Warrens' insistence that it was true can overcome the public's general skepticism.
Some of VICE's finest employees shared tales of what irrationally spooked them the most as children—so take off your mask, turn off Poltergeist, and read on for the things that scared us silly that probably shouldn't have... Teddy Ruxpin was an animatronic teddy bear you put an audio cassette in, and it would tell stories and sing.
Mr. Hooper's other directing credits included "Poltergeist," the 1982 ghost story he made with Steven Spielberg, and episodes of television shows like "Tales From the Crypt," but his most enduring contribution was certainly "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," a low-budget 1974 sleeper that became a cult hit, helped establish horror conventions that are still widely used and influenced countless other directors.
In "A Silly Love Story," a young man's shirts are unraveled by an apricot-loving poltergeist while he falls in love with his gender-queer friend Merion; in "Dead Air," we glimpse pieces of two women's courtship through transcripts of increasingly unsettling audio recordings; in "She Hides Sometimes," pieces of Anjana's childhood home seem to slip away with her ailing mother's memories.
Since its first season, Netflix's spooky series has taken a healthy dose of John Carpenter-style horror (channeling the atmospheric, synth-scored vibes of films like The Thing, The Fog and Starman), added a hearty dollop of Spielbergian, suburban kid adventure (notably E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Poltergeist and The Goonies) and blended it all with the era's key pop cultural touchstones in gaming, music and fashion.
If you doubt that Stahelski sees his own job in these terms, look no further than how he lights each scene: Even neon demon Nicolas Winding Refn must be taking notes at the way Stahelski and his crew place bright-fuchsia fluorescent tubes in a New York subway, poltergeist-blue spotlights beneath the arches of ancient Roman catacombs, and nightclub-worthy accents throughout an elaborate hall of mirrors art exhibit.
The Warrens (who, in the Conjuring films and Annabelle Comes Home, are played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) were well known in paranormal circles and became celebrities due to their investigations of well known hauntings including the notorious Amityville Horror case and the Enfield Haunting which saw the pair head to England to solve the high profile mystery of a young family who claimed to be the victims of a nefarious poltergeist.
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