Poltergeist

The shadow of Carol Anne's bird when Diane is going to drop it into the toilet.

At the beginning of the movie when the golden retriever is going up to each member of the family, a crew member is seen through a small crack in the door right before the dog goes into Dana's room.

Carol Anne holds onto the headboard to keep from being sucked into the closet.

She clearly loses her grip on the headboard and lets go.

However, the next shot of her sailing through the air toward the closet shows her holding a piece of the headboard.

While Carol Anne is being sucked into the closet, we see the red chair get sucked in.

Then the clown-doll gets sucked in.

Then the red chair is again visible on the left of the shot.

Carol Anne bent the headboard before being flown off to the closet, but it is intact later in the movie.

During the initial investigation, when the ghost comes down the staircase, nothing appears on the monitor, but when reviewed, the tape does appear to have captured the incident.

This is part of ghost lore.

When Diane encounters the beast in front of the door and yells "Nooo, don't touch my babies!" she crosses in front of it and falls down the stairs.

As she passes in front of it, the creature's eyes and mouth can be seen on the front of her shirt.

The first time Carol Anne says, "They're here," in her parents' bedroom, her lips appear to be saying, "They're all here.

" During the early kitchen scene the doctor's coffee cup and flask change hands.

The shadow of the rig "flying" Diane's stunt double is visible against the wall as she is propelled backwards by the shock of grabbing the doorknob.

When Carol Anne is sliding across the floor, some sort of sliding device can clearly be seen under her as she goes from one point to the other.

The mud spots on the back of Steve's shirt when looking for Carol Anne.

At breakfast, the position of the glass in Robbie's hand changes while the children are arguing.

When Robbie's glass breaks, as Diane is serving the children waffles, the number of waffles on the plate changes but not in relation to how many she has served.

At breakfast, the napkin in front of Robbie's cereal bowl disappears and is replaced by a large puddle of milk.

When Diane bribes Carol Anne by saying they will eat pizza later, in a close-up Carol Anne says, "I want pepperoni pizza," yet her mouth is not moving.

When Diane and Steve are talking to each other outside the removal van towards the end of the movie, Steve's hair is alternately neat/windswept between shots.

During the tree/abduction scenes, it is pouring rain in some shots, but not in others.

Diane is shocked by the front doorknob, when trying to escape to seek help.

When she is thrown across the room, behind the staircase, a crewmember's foot can be seen pulling back suddenly in an (unsuccessful) attempt to stay out of the shot.

At breakfast, when Robbie's glass breaks, you can clearly see a string attached under the glass that pulls the fake bottom off.

Diane falls into the muddy pool, and has mud stains on the back of her T-Shirt.

When she runs up the stairs and onto the landing, they are gone.

When Robbie is sent away and put in a cab, he and the dog seem to change places between shots.

Furthermore, whilst the dog clearly gets in the back seat of the taxi, in the next shot it is sitting in the front seat.

As the abduction of Carol Anne starts, a toy carriage is pulled and falls over a foot away from the closet door.

Later, as we see more toys being pulled into the closet, the carriage is at the side of Carol Anne's bed.

The mattress on Robbie's bed changes to a different one during the abduction of Carol Anne.

Carol Anne's bedroom door has six panels, but in the hall way when Diane Freeling was walking, all the doors were plain with no design.

As the two caskets burst from beneath the floorboards in the kitchen, they are both topped with rubble and dirt.

In the next shot as one of the caskets open, most of the rubble disappears.

When they are at the graveyard and the man is telling Steven that they moved the graveyard from where they live now, Steven's shirt is alternately sweaty/dry between shots.

A casket raises in the front doorway, only surrounded by stones and grit.

A few seconds later, a humongous pile of soil appears around the casket.

As Mr.

Teague watches the house implode, a shadow of a crew member can be seen on his suit.

When Robbie climbs into bed and stares at the clown (near the end of the movie), the lamp he turns off and the Darth Vader head switch places.

At the film's climax when the family piles into the station wagon.

Robbie is seen wearing blue pajamas when he screams, "Daddy, drive away!" After Dana gets into the car, Robbie screams "The house is coming!" This time he is in the red pajamas from the previous scene.

The family is loaded into the car at the end of the movie, and the dog gets into the front seat.

The dog then disappears while Steven frantically obtains his keys, and reappears back in the seat in the next shot as Steven climbs into the car.

In the beginning of the chair stacking scene the pull in Diane's shirt is clearly visible before Carol Anne touches her, indicating multiple takes.

When the paranormal investigator takes his face apart in the bathroom, the reflection in the bathroom mirror changes three times1.

The walls in the reflection are pegboard, and a bottle of "Fantastik" cleaner hangs near the mirror.

After a cut to an overhead light and back, the walls are no longer pegboard, the bottle has disappeared, and a cleaning brush has appeared on the wall.

After a cut to the sink and back, the bottle is back, but is of a different type, and a black cloth is hanging over the brush.

In the chair stacking scene, just as Diane bends down to get items out of a cupboard, the chrome toaster on the kitchen counter reflects the crew switching the chair arrangement.

When Diane is pulling Steve into the house right before the chair sliding scene, the garbage can Steve is holding onto gets stuck in the doorway.

The hand and shadow of a crew member is clearly seen grabbing the can as Steve lets go.

In the kitchen chair sliding scene, Diane fails to place the front legs of the chair within the white circles that have been drawn.

The front right leg (the viewers left) is also not placed on the line separating the tiles as it appears in the following scene when the chair actually moves.

After Diane moves away from the chair, the chair's front legs have been miraculously aligned with the white circles and the front right chair leg has been placed on the line separating the tiles.

This indicates that there were multiple takes and most likely a mechanism between the tiles which helped the chair to move.

While Diane is soaking in the tub with her eyes closed, "steam" is flowing down into the tub from elsewhere in the room, instead of it evaporating out from the hot water.

After the steak has moved along the counter in line with a tile groove, the steak's rupture scene has the steak in between tile grooves.

When we see the hole for the pool as Steve is trying to get Robbie out of the tree, there is a section of the pool on the far right side that is damaged.

When Steve goes into the pool to look for Carol Anne the same section is undamaged.

Later when Diane runs by the pool to get help the section is undamaged, but just before and right at the spot where she "falls" into the pool, the section is damaged in a way that suggests multiple takes at that spot.

When E.

Buzz grabs the chips from Dana's bed, he bites the lower right hand corner of the bag, but when he pulls the bag off the bed, he has a hold of the lower left corner.

When Carol Anne is feeding her fish, her bed is "neatly" unmade, but when we see Robbie looking at the tree from the outside, we see that Carol Anne's bed is made.

Finally when Diane comes in and tells Carol Anne not to feed the fish that much, Carol Anne's bed is "dramatically" unmade.

When Diane asks Carol Anne about the "TV" people.

After the glass breaks and Dana runs out of the kitchen, you can see the boom mic reflecting off the picture frame behind Diane.

NOTEUpper left of Frame.

Towards the end of the movie when the kids are almost eaten by the giant esophagus, you can clearly tell that a dummy has substituted for Carol Anne due to the fact that 'Heather O'Rourke' (qv) was too frightened to do the scene (see trivia).

The positions of the dummy and the real Carol Anne change between shots.

As Ryan is sitting by the monitors listening to music, the camera starts moving.

When it comes to the point of facing straight towards the viewer you can see the camera used to film the scene and some of the lights on the set.

In the 'Ask Dad" sceneJust before Carol Anne starts to participate in the 'ask dad', she is just about to put a knife into her mouth with her right hand.

Then, the knife is suddenly gone.

In the beloved breakfast scene with Diane and the kids, Diane's spatula appears and re-appears.

When Robbie first says "Ask Dad!", Diane's right hand is firmly clasped around the plate of waffles.

Then, in the next shot, she has the spatula in her hand again.

In the breakfast sceneWhen Diane is speaking with the kids about Carol Anne saying "They're Here", the chair to the right of Robbie is pushed to the table.

Then, when Carol Anne runs around the table to watch TV, the same chair has moved out from the table.

At breakfastIn the shot where Carol Anne calls Robbie a "doggie-bag", Dana is playing with a waffle with her right hand.

Then, Dana has the waffle in her left hand, and has a pen in her right hand.

In the scene where Steve is speaking with (sweet) Jeff on the telephone about the "earthquake"In the kitchen window-sill, there is a red pot-plant.

Then, the pot-plant is gone when Diane laughs about Dana giving the construction-workers rude gestures, and also when Bluto is drinking coffee and eating biscuits.

At breakfastIn the shot where Robbie is offering E.

Buzz a waffle underneath the table, there is no chair next to Robbie's immediate right.

Then, in the subsequent scene of Diane and the kids, there is a chair besides Robbie.

Lesh asks "Where was Carol Ann playing when she disappeared?" to which Diane responds (incorrectly) "her bedroom closet.

" The last time Diane - or anyone - was in the room with Carol Anne before she disappeared, she was sitting in her bed, pulling her covers up.

Following the scene where the tree comes through the window to take Robbie, the window and bedroom are without damage, as if nothing had happened.

When Marty goes into the bathroom after seeing his steak ooze and maggots on his chicken leg (which he drops on the floor).

He goes into the bathroom and starts pulling the skin off his face - clearly a dummy was used for this scene.

Near the end of the movie where Diane falls into the water filled hole, the skeletons from the graves float up to the surface.

Bones are denser than water, and cannot float.

Obvious dummy for Carol-Anne being sucked into the closet after letting go of the headboard.

The amount of mud on Robbie's face and clothes changes from scene to scene once he's inside after the tree attack.

After Diane escapes from the pool to go get her children, she is soaking wet, but when she is trying not to be sucked into the closet, only her shirt is wet but her panties are dry and clean.

When Steve is unlocking Carol Ann's room for the investigators, Ryan, the African American, takes his shoulder bag off twice.

In the scene where Carol Anne is being sucked into the closet you can clearly see a fishing line attached to the toy carriage, most likely used to pull it.

When Steven, Diane and Dana are moving furniture out of the way to get into Carol Anne and Robbie's closet, the two beds have had the bed skirts sucked off while the mattresses are undisturbed.

At breakfast, the glass that is about to break in Robbie's hand is leaking considerably, but the amount of milk in the glass is unchanging (considering how much milk is leaking and how much is on the table already).

After Carol Anne's abduction, when he brings the parapsychologists to the house for the first time, Steve tells them that they keep the kids' room locked at all times and is seen using a key to unlock it when showing it to them.

Yet later Diane is seen briefly opening the door without using a key.

When Tangina is talking to Diane and the others about Carol Anne she tells them that she can only hear her mother's voice, but in the next scene she tells Steven to threaten to spank her if she doesn't answer them.

When the bulldozer is digging for the pool, Tweety's cigar box is unearthed.

This is not possible considering where Tweety was buried and where the pool is being dug.

When Steve arrives at home to find the caskets exploding out of the ground at the end of the movie, in one shot shortly after he arrives, we can see an explosive charge detonating to create the proper exploding dirt effect shortly before another casket emerges.

In the opening shot immediately following the credit of "Directed by 'Tobe Hooper' (qv)"Jeff Shaw on the bicycle pulls out of his drive-way (at the end of a cul-de-sac) on a bicycle with a crate of beer under his arm, and he turns left.

Opposite the cul-de-sac is a yellow van parked in it's driveway.

However after he turns left, there is no yellow van and the texture of the lawns are completely different.

It is a different street.

Near the end of the movie when the house implodes, the lights on the pillars adjacent to the front walkway stay lit.

In any normal house these lights are connected to the house's electrical system and would have gone out as the house is destroyed.

In the beginning of the movie, Steve is watching a live football game on TV with his friends.

Despite their reactions to the live game, the game play on TV is in slow motion, making it previously recorded footage.

While attempting to photograph the flashing lights, Marty (Martin Casella) the paranormal investigator, takes two shots with the camera making two obvious auto-film advance sounds, this despite not having any film motor drive attached to the camera body.

A community with foundations, basements and a swimming pool or two, was built on top of buried bodies.

With the standard grave being dug only six feet into the ground, the bodies should have been discovered much sooner by the community's builders.

During the storm and the parents and two kids are in the parents bed you see two white pillows in the background one standing upright and the other leaning on it, you can see the leaning pillow go from leaning to straight up and back and forth several times.

(time index 21:56, 23:27, 23:37) Before Diane takes a bath, Robbie and Carol Anne are fighting over a toy truck.

Carol Anne is holding onto the truck saying "Gimme it!" to Robbie and jerks the truck towards herself as if Robbie is holding onto it, but he isn't holding it at all.

When Dana looks out the window at Steven rescuing Robbie from the tree, it is raining against the window and dark.

In the next shot, she runs outside to witness the tornado vanishing and the rain has stopped and it is much brighter outside.

At the end of the film, Steven backs out of the driveway in the station wagon without lights on and crashes into Mr.

Teague's truck, yet in the next shot, still pushing the truck out of the way, the wagon's lights are suddenly on.

When Carol-Ann get's abducted there is a Darth Vader poster hanging on the right and an 'Alien' poster on the left of the closet door.

During the scene the Darth Vader poster moves from hanging on the wall, to getting blown around the room (next to Carol-Ann's bed) to hanging back on the wall again.

The Alien poster goes from hanging perfect, to flopping around an almost falling off the wall, to hanging perfect again.

Lesh is horrified by the apparition descending the stairs in the middle of the night and she puts her hand to her mouth.

In the next shot her hand is down.

The second floor of the Freeling's house is completely inconsistent with its exterior.

From outside a large window is seen above the front door, but inside is a vaulted ceiling above the front door and the window is not there.

Strangely, this window appears only once behind Diane while she's running down the "corridor" to Robbie's and Carol Ann's bedroom, yet this too is impossible because the upstairs hallway isn't above the front door.

When Steve comes home from showing a house to a couple, the camera is visible in the reflection of the station wagon as he pulls into the driveway.

When Diane enters the portal in the closet, the bedroom is filled with a strong wind, but the curtains behind her are motionless.

Caskets penetrate the kitchen floor from below and the tiles break up into neat, thin sections of four.

Anything strong enough to penetrate a concrete foundation would shattered the tiles to pieces.

When the parapsychologists turn the television on we instantly hear a broadcast which is impossible since the screen shows nothing but static.

When Diane begins talking with Carol Ann for the first time after her abduction, Dana is heard sobbing, but she clearly isn't vocalizing anything.

Ryan's camera automatically pans up to the top of the stairs and zooms in but the view on the monitor has not zoomed in.

In an extreme wide shot of the Freelings' house just before it implodes, Teague is seen with his hands defensively raised above his head.

In the next shot his arms are at his side.

In another shot he is blown down to the ground by a funnel of energy, the next shot is a side view of the street where Teague is no where to be seen.

Diane is trying to rescue her children from their bedroom where a giant esophagus is sucking everything up and the children are clinging to the headboards of their beds.

When she pulls them out an overhead shot in hallway reveals they're now simply running out and falling to the floor.

SPIOLERSeveral spectators gather in the street witnessing the Freeling's house vanish into a bright light; of all the spectators in front of the bright light, only Teague casts a shadow.

When Diane calls Carol Anne in the living room, this one answers "hello daddy" in presence of her family in addition with Dr.

Lesh and her assistants Marty and Ryan.

Seconds before of the Carol Anne's answer Ryan appears in background on bended knee, putting his hands on his headphones, but when the camera focuses Ryan, he puts his hands on the headphones again.

When Steven finds his keys and gets into the car to escape the neighborhood, a close-up of Carol Anne shows her face is caked with dirt.

In the next close-up of her, she's completely clean.

Poltergeist. I have watched this movie no less than three days ago, hoping that it was going to be a better version of the classic Poltergeist, unfortunately I was wrong.

Like many horror films, Poltergeist doesn't make a whole lot of sense and the plot is a little thin. What it does do well is entertain.

When one of the silver screen's most iconic and scary scenes – the clown attack from the original 1982 version – is remade into an absolute laugh-out-loud riot, you know the movie's a dud.Oh, and I am not kidding: the updated clown attack nearly sent me to the floor in laughter.

Little Carol Anne(the late Heather O'Rourke) is the youngest member of the Freeling family, whose parents Steve & Diane(Craig T. Nelson & Jo Beth Williams) notice her odd behavior around the television, since she holds long conversations with it(when its showing static/snow...

I was really hoping that someone could pull this off but apprantly not even the great Sam Rami could muster up enough talent to save this God-awful remake.Sometimes remakes end up better than the original because of all the new tech, but nothing could pull this steaming pile of waste out of the toilet.

Everyone I know loves this film and I decided that it was time I saw what is considered a classic of horror. I was pretty let down.

A decent movie. Not the best horror out there but pretty good.

When I heard there was to be a remake of what I consider To be one of the best movies of all time I thought oh dear this will be awful, and well I wasn't disappointed. This 'movie remake' is nothing of the sort, its a loosely based hash of a great movie.

I greatly enjoyed this movie. I saw it today on DVD and I was absolutely thrilled during most of the movie (although the first 20 minutes or so don't quite manage to grab you that well, it makes up for it with the last hour and a half).