Sh*t Show Podcast: Poltergeist (1982)

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Күн бұрын

Making a movie with two directors is hard. Let’s talk about how difficult it was to make Poltergeist, from the endless rumors of Steven Spielberg overtaking Tobe Hooper to shadow direct the film, to it’s legend of being truly cursed. Join us and our first guest, Sequoia Simone from the podcasts Fanatical Fics (and Where to Find Them) and But Make It Scary.
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In the entertainment world, there are millions of dollars on the line and troubled productions are bound to happen. And we are going to talk about these disastrous, never ending, and sometimes dangerous productions. From the creators of WTF Happened To This Movie?, It Was A Sh*t Show is a video essay/documentary/podcast series looking at some of your favorite films and tv shows, and why they were such a nightmare to make.
Chapters:
00:00 - Teaser
01:42 - Intro
10:24 - Poltergeist (1982)
Sources:
Ain’t It Cool News: legacy.aintitcool.com/node/34266
AV Club: www.avclub.com/tobe-hooper-17...
Blumhouse: web.archive.org/web/201709011...
Den of Geek: www.denofgeek.com/movies/how-...
Fangoria: archive.org/details/Fangoria_...
The Films of Steven Spielberg: www.google.com/books/edition/...
Rue Morgue: archive.org/details/Rue_Morgu...
Snopes: www.snopes.com/fact-check/wer...
www.snopes.com/fact-check/pol...
Spielberg: The Man, the Movies, the Mythology: www.google.com/books/edition/...
Steven Spielberg: A Biography: www.google.com/books/edition/...
Terror From Beyond The Dave: terrordaves.com/2012/08/07/da...
Featured Footage:
Poltergeist (1982)
Music:
Ryan Hudson - Sh*t Show Theme
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Пікірлер: 74

@jeffphillips1832 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite new podcast along with Reverse Angle. Please don't stop or change a thing. My co-workers love hearing about all the great behind the scenes movie drama, and you guys have terrific chemistry and comedic chops.

@ItWasAShtShow 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, that means a lot!

@nickgodalin6487 7 ай бұрын

It's a totally different experience when you're 8 years old and you watch this movie in a dark movie theater on a REALLY big screen with a REALLY killer Dolby stereo system. I didn't sleep for a week or so after that.

@TheDesertRat31 26 күн бұрын

Yep. I concur. This move scared the bejesus out of 8 y/o me. At that age, movies are basically documentary news footage. That movie taught me about how to tell how far away thunderstorms are.

@gretchenbaker7435 Жыл бұрын

To be fair I was raised at the time frame of this movie and most parents were like this. Honestly they seemed more involved with their kids than mine! It was an amazing time where us kids were feral as

@ItWasAShtShow Жыл бұрын

But there's a big difference between helicopter parents and those laughing at her contractors sexually harassing her daughter. It SUCH a weird moment.

@SEAL341 Жыл бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShow She wasn't laughing at that, but the way her kid was very capable of sticking up for herself. Helicopter parents have made an army of kids who have no idea of how to do anything or think for themselves.

@michaelblaine6494 Жыл бұрын

Those were the days,we ran wild. Especially if you had younger(than average) parents

@michaelblaine6494 Жыл бұрын

Agreed on both points

@RabbitRunway Жыл бұрын

I gotta get real friends. I'm binge watching these. Love the show!

@StedeBonnetsCravat Жыл бұрын

Hilarious podcast, but it's clear none of you guys are horror fans, or you wouldn't be downplaying Toby Hooper's career like that. Not only did he direct one of the greatest, most influential horror movies of all time (and the bonkers, but awesome sequel), he also directed Salem's Lot, cult-classic Funhouse and some other fantastic B-level horror movies like you mentioned. Invaders from Mars scared the shit out of me as a kid. Toby Hooper is a hero amongst us horror aficionados. 😊

@ItWasAShtShow Жыл бұрын

This is absolutely true.

@nickrustyson8124 Жыл бұрын

Even though the man is a monster who should be remembered much like John Landis

@michaelblaine6494 Жыл бұрын

Thank you,that was bugging me. Great pod otherwise

@shaandiamond2618 Жыл бұрын

Just recently found this channel and was listening to this while out shopping on my own and then started laughing hard all on my own like a crazy person. Not often I'm amused like this so thanks! Great work guys, fun as well as interesting. 👌🏽

@ItWasAShtShow Жыл бұрын

Please tell me you were in the raw meat section!

@TheRonnieaj Жыл бұрын

In fairness, I was taking flights solo and using public buses to get to and from school at 9, which was late 80s. Out of all the things here, that’s probably the one I most nod at 😂

@nealwhaley63 2 жыл бұрын

One question never answered about the film: who designed the world’s most impractical staircase in the living room?

@davidjames579 Жыл бұрын

Apparently Spielberg was the same on The Goonies. The idea for the movie was his, and while he hired Richard Donner to direct, some of the actors playing the kids have said they got direction from both Donner and Spielberg, and sometimes for the same scene, and it could be contradictory.

@ItWasAShtShow Жыл бұрын

I need to look into this…

@darthrowsdower3554 25 күн бұрын

its actually very amusing hearing people critique times they didnt live in. looks like ive found a new channel of interest.

@ZeldaQueen64 Ай бұрын

For all cryptid fans, the "based on a true story" incident that initially inspired Spielberg was the Kellyville-Hopkins encounter. How credible one finds the story to be is debatable (although I don't think it was fully debunked), but the account of seemingly endless aliens/goblins trying to break into a family's home all night for God-knows-why is a pretty good basis for a horror movie.

@HisNameWasCrazy Жыл бұрын

Jeez, I don't really believe in the concept of curses but if any movies fit the bill it's this and The Omen. And speaking of "donating your body to movies," there was apparently a real skeleton in the cemetery scene in The Good The Bad & The Ugly that belonged to a Spanish actress who wrote in her will that she wanted her skeleton to be used for movies, as she wanted to act even after her death. Effectively, she donated her body to movies :)

@VampireLestatTheBratPrince 2 жыл бұрын

As soon as you started talking about getting scared in this movie. I let my mum know that I was finally watching this movie as when the clown came out I screamed (it was really late at night and I hate clowns). I heard my dad in the next room worried, as he didn’t know I was watching a movie, and my mum just called out “are you up to the clown scene?” Nope. I can watch saw and yet this movie scared me.

@kevincarter3753 Ай бұрын

Came here for the sh!t show but stayed for the Clint Show!

@daelen.cclark 6 күн бұрын

I’ll just take Eddie’s advice and get out the house when there’s a ghost in it.

@RunningStillsProductions 7 ай бұрын

You just unlocked a nightmare I had a kid from watching Invaders from Mars🤯 I loooove this podcast!

@ItWasAShtShow 7 ай бұрын

Right?! We watched it last Halloween… does not hold up…

@Alpha_Omega_1541 Жыл бұрын

You all have great chemistry. I laughed my ass off. I just discovered this channel, can’t wait to listen to more episodes. You nailed the review of Poltergeist. I watched it as a kid in the 80s and it scared the shit out of me. That scene where the dad wakes up and Carol Anne is talking to the TV, still creeps me out.

@ItWasAShtShow Жыл бұрын

Glad you found us!

@white-dragon4424 Жыл бұрын

Basically, Poltergeist was Spielberg's Return of the Jedi, where Lucas got Marquand in as a puppet director, but Lucas was always there keeping a close eye on him and giving him orders.

@nbctheoffice Жыл бұрын

You all are so much fun! I’m here for it!

@chrisnahhas5151 Ай бұрын

I was a latch key kid in the eighties. I lived next to a park and would make friends with all the dogs that people would turn out into the streets when they went out to work. It made me dog person for life. I was given a box of pirated horror VHS tapes when I was about twelve and told I could watch them but to tell my mum if I found any adult movies. There was a copy of Evil Dead in the box and I watched it with the sound turned off because it was just too scary otherwise. It wasn’t too bad as I’d already been taken to see Watership Down when I was four years old, so I kind of knew what to expect from it all. But yeah, the eighties. I was pretty much feral; got my ethics and moral compass later in life from studying psychology and sociology at a local college and from listening to The Great Courses / Teaching Company audio programs.

@TheDesertRat31 26 күн бұрын

Oh, Watership down. I have weird fragmentary memories of that movie. The feelings I get thinking about it are a general disturbed feeling and rabbits. I really need to watch it again.

@fuqupal 2 жыл бұрын

Poltergeist came out in 1982, not 1984.

@mobtek 7 ай бұрын

So sorry to hear Clint left the show!

@ItWasAShtShow 7 ай бұрын

Truly a loss…

@seamusburke639 10 ай бұрын

I swear this movie feels like the one of the few accurate portrayals of stoners. Especially when you become an adult!

@white-dragon4424 Жыл бұрын

Tobe Hooper did direct a really excellent classic horror movie, the original TV mini-series of Salem's Lot.

@moosetasticbombastic1998 2 жыл бұрын

Just found y'all and hawt damn y'all are great and deserve more subs!! I absolutely love the podcast and the making of videos. So happy the KZfaq Eldritch gods showed me y'all! 😍

@ItWasAShtShow 2 жыл бұрын

And we’re glad you’re here!

@moosetasticbombastic1998 2 жыл бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShow 😍🥰

@EricJMontoya 2 жыл бұрын

I watched this movie on opening weekend in 1982 at a drive-in theatre along with One Dark Night. I had a major crush on heather lol.

@charleshays5407 Жыл бұрын

Me, my brother and our mother saw it at the movies and it creeped us out.

@davidblank420 9 ай бұрын

I love Sequoias energy. I looked her up and she's so super gorgeous 😍 Tell her I said, "Goddamn." 😂

@tyizzle80 Жыл бұрын

I love your videos!!

@lmsorenson8503 2 жыл бұрын

Your guys' laughs make me laugh 😂

@DeconvertedMan Жыл бұрын

lol @ the lights flickering XD :D

@dallasshumaker6148 Жыл бұрын

Ack. Too many new podcasts to listen to. I am looking forward to the fanfics and …but make it scary podcasts. Sounds cool.

@redstrat1234 Жыл бұрын

Superb

@jsb1944 Жыл бұрын

Apparently the upcoming 4k is titled "steven spielberg's" poltergeist

@DeconvertedMan Жыл бұрын

this is *very* funny! :D

@charleshays5407 2 жыл бұрын

The little girl died the same day my grandmother died, February 1, 1988.

@fuqupal 2 жыл бұрын

Heather O'Rourke. That was her name.

@nickgodalin6487 4 ай бұрын

Yeah I remember the exact moment I found out about it. Was in the 8th grade at Yorba Junior High School. I didn't know what to do but go outside and just sit there on the fence between yards and stare at the ground.

@RabbitRunway Жыл бұрын

Mortuary is my favourite Hooper movie

@carlredbird3054 Жыл бұрын

I listened to a podcast of a Texas chainsaw anniversary party in Texas with toby. Everyone was drunk and having a good time... Until one of the podcasters started asking about poltergeist, about Stevens involvement. The rumor is that Toby was just getting drunk and high all day, while Steven made the movie. Toby became very angry and basically shut down the entire podcast. All he would say was that he was present while the movie was made and that he is officially the director lolz 🤣. Steven definitely directed the movie... It's obvious, and I'm a big fan of Toby but his movies do not have the same polish, and that part of why his movies are so good

@ItWasAShtShow Жыл бұрын

Fascinating! It's very telling that no movie he made after this looked even remotely as good.

@Tonytaylormusic Жыл бұрын

Please make Clint’s Closet a spin off show lol

@ItWasAShtShow Жыл бұрын

It kind of is… Patreon exclusive.

@Tonytaylormusic Жыл бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShow lol

@ssgss4iammacabeefu_ Жыл бұрын

Wow she actually saw Poltergeist for the 1st time last year? Lmao. What took so long?

@charlieminard5157 4 ай бұрын

Hey, the sound is gone from this

@ItWasAShtShow 4 ай бұрын

Huh? It’s working just fine.

@charlieminard5157 4 ай бұрын

@@ItWasAShtShow sorry about that, it is now. I tried refreshing a few times when it wasn't working before, so I thought maybe it got struck by YT or something. Sorry to worry you!

@solacehealer7589 2 жыл бұрын

Isn’t that original story the plot of Aliens in the Attic?

@turtleanton6539 Жыл бұрын

Xddddddd

@claynorth964 2 жыл бұрын

its quite sad and bewildering that you dont see how this is a great movie. with each episode you show how little you know of film history and film criticism, yet here you are, making a movie history podcast/youtube (and your podcast hosts seem to know even less then you do and are making no effort to change that). Dunning Kruger effect right out in the wild.

@ItWasAShtShow 2 жыл бұрын

It’s insane how incredibly off base you are. You clearly don’t understand what we are doing nor understand what you yourself are talking about. If you supposedly know film criticism, then why can’t we have a different opinion you and have actual criticism?