The classic Disney film that inspired Stephen King’s horror career

Any movie buff will probably be able to tell you the first time a movie scared them. For people of my generation, Tobe Hooper’s 1982 film “Poltergeist” holds many responsibilities. Because the film bore Steven Spielberg’s name as producer, and because it was only rated PG (it was made before the PG-13 rating was introduced), Hooper’s monstrous horror film was been seen by many young children, unaware of the nightmares. who was inside. “Poltergeist” featured a killer clown, a man-eating tree and a scene where a man, possessed by the evil of the house, tears all the skin off his face.

Children exposed to such horrors from a young age either withdraw from cinema altogether…or become horror filmmakers themselves. It’s hard to deny the glorious, visceral power of a good traumatic scare in film.

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