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But the Nelson house becomes a magnet for special effects, including a wind machine that sucks O'Rourke into the world's brightest closet. O'Rourke is then trapped in the TV set, and it takes know-it-all midget psychic Zelda Rubinstein to tell Williams how to retrieve their hapless child.
How others will see it. Competent Hollywood horror films are almost always profitable, and Poltergeist was a blockbuster, aided by O'Rourke's famous catch phrase, "They're here." In addition to the paranormal special effects, which range from scary to silly, men can admire William's hot leggy figure, and women can chuckle at Nelson's brawny dufus persona.
The film is too traumatic for kids, although some mothers must be more permissive than others. This would explain JoBeth Williams' character. She sees her eldest daughter, who is barely a teenager, flirt with three whooping construction workers who are on their property and Williams only smiles. She is also oblivious to her childrens' arguments and food-fights. Good for her, I think.
How I felt about it. What genre is Poltergeist? You say it's a horror movie? But the litmus test is the scene is JoBeth Williams in the muddy would-be swimming pool with all the skeletons arising to welcome her to their domain. When you watch this, are you closer to being scared, or laughing? Admit it, it's the latter. The film, therefore, is a actually a comedy disguised as a horror movie.
It's also watchable, although the finale is a groaner, as the house gets sucked into the vortex and misguided capitalist Mr. Teague (James Karen) gets his comeuppance. We also are doubtful that Williams could manage to pull herself, Robins, and O'Rourke from Ross Perot's "great sucking sound," which actually comes from the skeletons in the closet rather than Mexico. All this after the house was proclaimed as clean by supremely confident Zelda Rubinstein.
In the movie, the house was haunted. In real life, it was the child actors who were cursed. Dunne was murdered in 1982, O'Rourke died in 1988, and and Robins was (I am not making this up) nearly strangled by a toy clown during the production. Fortunately for Hollywood and producer/writer/in-effect director Steven Spielberg, Poltergeist itself was not cursed, and made enough money that two sequels followed, only one less than an earlier Spielberg blockbuster, Jaws.