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Podcast: Hometown Ghost Stories
Episode: Horror Movie Review! Poltergeist (1982)
Description: **SPOILERS** Rob, Dave and Jesse sit down and review the 1982 horror movie, Poltergeist ... shockingly... we did not agree. Strange and creepy happenings beset an average California family, the Freelings -- Steve (Craig T. Nelson), Diane (JoBeth Williams), teenaged Dana (Dominique Dunne), eight-year-old Robbie (Oliver Robins), and five-year-old Carol Ann (Heather O'Rourke) -- when ghosts commune with them through the television set. Initially friendly and playful, the spirits turn unexpectedly menacing, and, when Carol Ann goes missing, Steve and Diane turn to a parapsychologist and eventually an exorcist for help.Be...