I love how the boyfriend drops Dana off as the house is being sucked into another dimension and casually drives off like nothing's going on.

Every scary movie is less scary and better when Cinema Sins makes fun of it. lol

Irony - Using real bodies as props in a movie about disrespecting the dead.

Can we just appreciate the nuance in Craig T Nelson’s performance because it’s very clear how much it hurts Steven to have to scold and scare his young daughter.

I just love how the ghosts in this movie are not subtle about the haunting at all. Just move stuff around regardless of time of day or who is looking to the point where the people can establish patterns in it.

If i owned a clown doll like that, i wouldnt care about the ghosts..i would be wondering why the fuck i bought the damn clown doll!

Not only does Dana "remember" the Holiday Inn, but in an earlier scene where she's raiding the fridge, she selects pickles and ice cream. Apparently Diane is not the only one who got pregnant at 16.

The neighborhood was built on top of a graveyard where the headstones only were moved. Carol Ann was born in the house making the tie-in to the land. As for why it took 5 years for the spirits to act--I always thought that it was the burial of the bird and the disturbance of the bird's grave by the pool construction that sparked the Poltergeist activity.

You must have missed the boss saying 'This is NOT an ancient burial ground'. Instead, it was just a plain graveyard where the company paid only to move the headstones. They left the bodies buried. But you are correct to point out that it is ONLY this house.

Fun fact: the awkward jump cut between the scene where Diane is talking about the feeling of the ghost pulling her was done that way because Steve made a comment about how he doesn't even like Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut got mad so they panicked and cut the scene

Some of the earlier remote controls were radio based (instead of IR), so this actually happened. However, the remote the guy uses is a Zenith sonic remote - which worked by pitched clicking sounds, and thus wouldn't trigger a television in the next house. At the same time, with some effort, you could turn the TV off and on, and with some finesse, even change channels, by snapping your fingers. - The more ya know...

So what was with the 'red slime' ( with some chunky pieces ) that the tennis balls, the mother and Carol-Anne is covered with when they come back to this world? Is the Heavenly afterlife a world of slimey pasta sauce or something, and not the fluffy clouds and pearly gates that we've always imagined it to be? Strange that no one says anything about it in the movie.

"movie thinks the national anthem is gonna brainwash me into- WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILED!" i laughed way to hard at this. god i love these guys XD

why do all dads in horror movies seem to wear the same cardigan/sweater

6:46 No, CinemaSins, that's not a protractor. That's actually a compass. You know, the tool used for drawing circles? *ding*

The remake had waaaaaaay more problems than this ever could. I like how original the plotline was and the acting was actually believable for quite a few characters here.

Jeremy, you need to start adding in a "This is something I've never sensed/seen before" cliche

Thought a sin should be removed for the: "You've never done this before" "Neither have you" "You're right....You Go!" Always makes me laugh my ass off.

It's pretty creepy that both the actresses that played the daughters died in real life, takes the fun out of watching the movie.

We had a funeral for a bird once. He was a special little guy. His name was Odie. He sang when we got home, he danced to music and he slept upside down like a bat. Bird funerals are real.

Everything Wrong With The Lost World: Jurassic Park Everything Wrong With Jurassic Park 3 You know, for the film coming out soon.

The last one I TOTALLY agree with! Some people were like "OMG, I'm so scared of my TV now!" and i was like "Really? Screw the TV, I'M scared of the CLOSET!!!" =P

It's very tragic that the older daughter Dominque Dunne died in November 1982 after being strangled by her boyfriend and Heather O' Rourke died in February 1988 after a sudden illness. I knew about Heather but not Dominique. That's terrible.

I always thought that they were the only ones being affected because of the pool they were digging. They actually foreshadow this by showing the bird's grave being dug up while working on the pool.

I have a pet theory that only that house was affected because they buried the bird and that triggered the ghosts in the burial ground to target Carol Ann

Actually CinemaSins, I noticed you missed a sin with Poltergeist: while Tangina told Diane that Carol Anne would hear only her mother's voice, Carol Anne (in spirit form) quickly answered when her father threatened to spank her, for not answering.

The reason for the two cutscenes in the beginning between the kitchen and the neighbor's house is because of Pizza Hut. When Diane says we'll go to Pizza Hut, later on in the scene Steven says he hates Pizza Hut. Because of the whole product placement crap, they pulled it and edited to a really horrible degree

They didn't find any caskets when digging all those foundations for the houses?

I always feel a little bad for JoBeth Williams being in the sinkhole with the skeletons that turned out to be actual human remains. You know that shit was not in her contract.

I love it when you review the classics! Maybe Alien next?? That would be amazing to sin!

The face ripping scene traumatized me as a kid. Also I'm glad nothing bad happened to the dog!😱😌

This is the first ‘scary’ movie I’ve ever seen

All these years, the question "Where was Carole-Ann playing when she disappeared?" has bothered me. Thank you for finally addressing it.

Those remote controls are not the same kind we use today. They actually worked off of sound, when you pushed a button they actually hit a tuning rod which sent a specific inaudible sound to the tv. Hence the term "clicker". So since they did not work off of infrared like most remotes do now, it is plausible it could work from one house to another.

I still love this movie and it still creepifies even after nearly forty years.

The reason only the Freelings' house was affected is because the evil spirit (appearing as a monster in one scene, a skeletal monster in another, and a 19th century elderly man in the sequels) is obsessed with Carol-Anne (RIP Heather O'Roarke, taken too soon). But if you watch the second movie, the entire neighborhood has been taken over by Tangina and her paranormal research team.

The reason the Freelings are the only ones who are haunted is because of Carol Anne. She was born in the house, and this gives her some sort of special connection with the ghosts.

According the IMDB the reason for that quick cut mid sentence was because the dad says he hates Pizza Hut and Pizza Hut actually took offence to it and wouldn't allow them to use the name if they kept it in. Out of all the amazing trivia surrounding this film I picked that lol.

The legend of zelda. HA! The actresses name was zelda rubenstein

I saw this as a kid and was TERRIFIED my entire childhood. This will forever be, to me, the scariest movie of all time.

The reason why all this shit happened is because of the construction of the pool disrupting the burial ground, and seemingly why it only affected there house. I don't think the house has a basement so they never dug deep enough to disturb the ground but he wanted the pool deep, thus disturbing the dead and causing the issues to start.

I remember watching this movie when I was little and it scared the ever-living shit out of me.

Dr. Lesh was right when she said Poltergeists revolve around people while hauntings associate with an area. The Freelings were haunted because the spirits were attracted to Carol Anne, hence why she continues to be haunted in the sequels after they’ve moved away.

They didn’t explain this until the 2nd movie which far less people saw but one of the reasons it was that house specifically was because in between the first and second movie they dug a while under the swimming pool and found this big cavern where reverend Kane locked tons of people down below. The book for the 2nd film was even better because they explained all this as well as the neighbors pretty much abandoning the neighborhood

How did Hulk riding a horse not get a sin removal? You won't see that in the MCU

Aww, I was hoping that at the end, when they dub other movie lines over random scenes, they might dub Homer's voice over the dad's: "Mr. Ploot, you didn't mention that our house was built...*on an Indian burial ground!!!* NO, YOU DIDN'T! Well that's not my recollection! Yeah, well...alright, goodbye. (hangs up) He said he mentioned it five or six times."

Not only would this house have been swarming with cops and DFACS workers immediately after Carol Anne’s disappearance, but the parents would’ve been under intense scrutiny and suspicion. They may have even been arrested before any of the ghost hunter stuff even had a chance to happen.

My brother and I grew up playing with an Alien toy. It was cool because you could move the arms and legs and when you bowed the head, a bunch of spikes would lift up along the center. Never knew that it was a xenomorph until I was about 20 and actually saw Aliens

Just a heads up... the remote control for the tv was a real thing back then.. they were originally called "clickers".. because you had 4 buttons on the handheld unit that when pressed sent an audible frequency signal to the tv... (Volume, TV-On/Off, Ch-Up, Ch-Dn) My dog used to change channels or the volume when they scratched themselves behind their ears and their dog-tags/licenses clinked together at the right frequency. Peace! ;)

Everything Wrong With Wreck-It-Ralph. That I want to see.

This poltergeist seems like a chill dude. It offers indisputable proof of its presence when needed AND provides kitchen fun for the whole family!

*"Meanwhile, this Alien poster has been mostly unfazed during this whole process, because it's seen scarier shit..."* *"Ghosts have a sense of humor, but they also steal kids..."* 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I've seen the actual house in northern Simi Valley - apparently it got pulled back into our dimension looking unharmed and all.

Rest in peace to the actress who played Carol Anne. So young, so talented

3:45 Actually, Carol Anne says, "They're all here!", NOT "They're here!" The line was dubbed over.

Give yourself multiple sins for repeatedly saying it’s an ancient tribal burial ground when James Karen said it WASN’T at 10:16!

To answer your question about anyone dying in a movie from falling down the stairs, "Death Becomes Her" is the only one that sprang to mind. Which I would love to see sinned. Though it is a bizarre movie, so you've been warned.

It's not shown here, but when Carol Anne is watching her mom put the dead bird in a cigar box, Carol Anne is eating a piece of licorice. When she puts it in the box with the bird "for when he's hungry", all of a sudden the licorice is twice as long. Haunted licorice?

You know this is going to be good when you're 6 mins into the video and the counter is already at 71

Add in that the lamp posts are still lit after the house is gone.

I will say, when they heard Carol Ann's voice through the TV while the investigators were there, I started crying. I'm not sure why, but that whole scene made me cry, especially when she was calling for help

[cough] compass not protractor [/cough] lol ;) Also the "totally wicked" from Incredibles is my text message alert and you made me pick up my phone.

Not sure anyone will see this, but I'm so upset that he missed this one: right after Diane falls down the stairs, she gets up and runs to the door. The door explodes and sends her flying backwards behind the staircase. When it cuts to her landing on the other side you can clearly see a crew member running out of the shot on the right side of the screen

The "stacking chairs" shot is one of the more remarkable shots in movie history because it's a single take, and the chairs were stacked by crew who ran into the set while the table was off-camera and stacked those chairs like that in real time. To me, that's a neat trick even without having to stay off camera.

If this happened to another family, the parents might be proud that their little girl is on TV. Some mothers would even call their friends and say, "Oh, you gotta check out channel 9!"

My dad showed us Alien at that age.... My brother developed night terrors and I became afraid of the dark until I was 13.

The old lady with the child's voice was the scariest part of this movie.

National anthem used to play on the TV every night before the broadcast went dead. That's right, there used to be dead air for the grave-shift. Aka white noise. Before Girls Gone Wild was invented. Before infomercials hawking rotisseries and slicer/dicers.

Lmfao "did he also hallucinate the bottle of 409?"

I have a theory about the psychic lady: (contains spoilers) She can only detect good spirits, and she cannot directly sense the bad spirits. She can sense when the good spirits are being lead astray, which leads her to believe that she can actually sense bad spirits directly. When she said that the house is clean; to the best of her knowledge, it was! This is because the good spirits realized that the demon lost it's power over them and they were freed, so she could no longer detect anything. I think the demon existed in the house long before the good spirits could be detected, and that building the house over the cemetery is what summoned the demon and trapped the spirits. With the demon summoned, it silently manipulated the family into building the pool, which would eventually unlock the spirits trapped by the house and allow the demon to move to its next phase of the plan. The demon needed to sacrifice Carol-Anne to unleash it's full potential, and the other spirits were probably fed some bullshit about how it's "her time" and what not. With the power of the demon and the spirits combined, she was successfully taken to the other side. Once she had crossed over it may have been too late even if they knew, because the demon was now very powerful. The good spirits could not escape it and they summoned help from the psychic. When Carol-Anne was taken back, and the spirits were released from the house, because the demon lost the power to control them. This caused the psychic lady to believe that the demon was gone too, but it hadn't. The demon was now thoroughly pissed off that its entire plan had been ruined, and attempted to drag anyone still left in the house into hell. It failed because everyone now knew what it was doing, and it had also been severely weakened by the loss of Carol-Anne. The entire house got sucked in to hell, but everybody got out, because the demon simply didn't have the power to stop them!

Imagine the conversation with the insurance agent. "Why are you claiming for an entire house?" "A ghost stole it"

Maybe already mentioned here, but yeah it looks like ET because it was filmed at the same time, in the same place. It's the only reason Spielberg didn't actually direct Poltergeist, but supposedly he begged Hooper to trade films. And still somehow we got 2 Spielberg films simultaneously.

But l still love the film; and how strange that the two leading actresses playing the sisters both died so young?

The gross and sad fact about this move is they used real human bones, they had a real haunting and the little girl died not soon after. I hate the idea they are doing a remake, its stupid..

That woman paranormal investigator has the most relaxing voice when whispering i've ever heard. She should read bedtime stories for adults to cure insomnia!! I don't mean Tangina, the older lady who's name I cant remember

I never saw this movie but only knew what was going to happen from that one episode of family guy.

Everything wrong with Good Burger. Oh wait...

The scariest thing about this movie is the psychic lady's voice.

I’ve been binging your channel since yesterday, keep them coming!

This was my first ever horror film, I watched it when I was like 5 and the only part that scared me was the clown. I have been scared of clowns ever since.

My brother couldn't sleep without lights on for 10 years after he watched this movie lmao

How 'bout this: "Carol Anne will only hear her mother's voice". A few minutes later: "Steven, make Carol Anne answer you". WTF?!?

I just finished watching Poltergeist for the first time and have one question. If the little boy is so terrified of the clown doll why did they buy it and why have they kept it?

The best part about a ghost or demon that you never see is that it means the director can just do whatever they, "what's that the boom mic is on screen? Oh well, it's the ghost/demon's fault"

" Movie thinks national anthem is gonna brainwash me into-WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILED!" LOL

Does anyone remember when remakes were good and wanted? Well, me neither.

"never drape clothes over lit lamps" yeah wish i would have learned that before I set my bedroom wall and favorite pants on fire luckily my babysitter knew how to use a fire extinguisher

Cinema sins is litterally my favorite freaking channel it makes me so happy

I'm surprised you didn't say "I AM GROOT" with any scene involving the tree...

"Ah! special effects protractor!" nope. that was a compass. to make circles and sh*t. *ding*

The chair stacking scene scared the actual fuck out of me more than anything else in the film.

I always figured that at the beginning of the haunting it was the most 'peaceful' ghosts playing with Carol Ann and trying to get help, because she's the only psychic one in the neighborhood and young enough to take things as-is. But the evil entity is what was responsible for everything else that escalates.

It wasn't built on a burial ground, it was on a regular cemetary

man, you know that the remake is gonna have the face melting scene with a ton of cgi

10:30 I now understand Rogers disguise in that one episode of American Dad 😂

I seem to recall having a good chuckle when Dad pushed the TV out in the end.

Welcome to the under 301 club. Drinks are in the fridge

I had this on auto play playing in the background with my head phones on, my name is Dana and when he said "Thanks, Dana." I replied "yeah, no problem". My family looked at me like I was insane.

Missed that the Dick contractors digging the pool didn't dig up any graves, but as usual, awesome list!

The movie that Steven and Diane are watching in their bedroom is A Guy Named Joe, story about military pilot who comes back from the dead. Not only that, but 9 years later in 1991, Spilberg remade it into Always.