POLTERGEIST CURSE

Films that dabble in the dark arts likewise seem to find themselves lumped with ?jinxed material? Urban legend tells that abnormal happenings during filming of The Exorcist had director William Friedkin repeatedly calling upon a priest to come and bless the set.[1] Film School Rejects reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. We also reserve the right to modify any curse words in your comments and make you look like an idiot.[2]

[1] http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/specials/superhero-superstition-is-the-dark-knight-jinxed.php
[2] http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/poltergeist-to-haunt-new-audiences.php


Carol Anne attends a school for gifted children, where the staff psychologist Dr. Seaton (Richard Fine) attributes her past troubles with noisy ghosts to mass delusions and hypnotic suggestions.[25] Carol Anne switches the TV channel to a station with static, and stares at the snow. Her mother thinks her habit is unhealthy: "Oh honey, you're gonna ruin your eyes.[26] Carol-Anne and Robbie are nearly swallowed back into the portal to the afterlife but are saved by their courageous mother. [27]

[25] http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/38630/poltergeist-iii/overview
[26] http://www.filmsite.org/polt.html
[27] http://www.amazon.ca/poltergeist-widescreen-full-screen-hooper/dp/0792833201


Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) says "They're here .".and with those two words, let the haunting begin, as a ghost/demon/Indian spirit abducts Carol Anne into some vague ethereal plane, and mom (JoBeth Williams) and dad (Craig T. Nelson) do anything to get her back, via scientists and mediums alike.[28]

[28] http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/poltergeist