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Poltergeist

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Heather O'Rourke played Carol Anne Freeling in Poltergeist

 

"Poltergeist" has a way of polarizing people: which moment of this seminal spook story (why yes, that was a cemetery they built that development on top of!) is truly the most traumatizing? The coulrophobic will cite the clown doll that the angry spirits bring to life, while those who feared the monster in the closet when they were young will be huddling behind the couch at a mere glimpse of what this wardrobe holds. But in many ways, "Poltergeist" is really a horror movie for parents. Your children are not safe, not even in your own home. Bad things are coming. In fact: "They're here."
In Poltergeist, a family discovers that their home was built on a cemetery


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(Updated: 09/19/11 SS)

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