Host Segments of Joe Bob Briggs for Poltergeist on TNT's Monstervision. There was a Tobe Hooper double feature on Monstervision featuring The Funhouse and Poltergeist during one of the Easter weekend specials on Monstervision. This is the Last Call part of the show where they showed Poltergeist. It's largely debated as to whether Tobe Hooper really did direct Poltergeist, as it's widely considered that while he was credited as the Director, it was really Steven Spielberg who controlled production and filming of the movie. Spielberg had a clause in his contract with Universal when he signed on to film E.T. that he couldn't direct any other movies until after E.T. was made, so Spielberg was credited as one of the the "Producers" of Poltergeist and Hooper billed as the "Director". Yet watching the movie it's pretty clear that this is a Spielberg film, with a little bit of Hooper's style sprinkled around here and there. Spielberg reportedly overrode Hooper on a lot of things and given that Spielberg was already a Hollywood giant by 1982 (Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc.), I'm sure Hooper wasn't going to argue with him. In the end, I think Hooper was more than happy to take credit for all of the commercial and critical success that Poltergeist received, but honestly I think if Hooper was allowed to make it a darker, almost R-rated horror flick that it would've been better as there's too many sappy, fluffy moments in this film for my liking.
Also, Zelda Rubenstein sadly died a few years ago but was still alive at the time of this broadcast, and also after briefly skipping through Poltergeist again after having not watched it in ages I've noticed that the film Insidious was heavily "inspired" by Poltergeist, given that the plots are almost exactly the same lol. I loved Insidious but yeah, it's kind of a ripoff lol.
Anyway, there can never be too many Monstervision host segments on youtube, Joe Bob Briggs is the man and I salute both him and all fellow youtube Monstervision fans, especially everyone else who's uploaded Joe Bob Briggs videos. Let's keep the Monstervision videos coming! Just remember, host segments only lol.