Trees: The crotchety apple trees who yell at Dorothy for picking their fruit without permission, then hurl apples at her and Scarecrow. Fighting Strategy: “I have to say, I don’t really blame those ...

A book about Poltergeist, the 1982 haunted house movie to end all haunted house movies, could take as many shapes as its titular spectral force. A haunted clown, a possessed tree—an academic ...

I remember so much about closets. The one in my childhood bedroom—cavernous, endless—was a portal. A home to toys, clothes, items stuffed into corners to fool Mom’s eye. It was also a source of ...

Released last Friday, the remake of the 1982 horror classic Poltergeist was greeted with a lukewarm response from critics. In fairness, it was always going to be hard for director Gil Kenan to match ...

The first (and the most acclaimed) of the Poltergeist film series, this supernatural horror flick by the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (and produced by Steven Spielberg) is probably one of ...

Poltergeist has been haunting ’80s kids — and their descendants — for 40 years. But the 1982 blockbuster, directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, has been haunted itself by the ...

What do you get when you strip that magical, lightning-in-a-bottle clash of ideas between horror director Tobe Hooper and force of nature Steven Spielberg from 1982’s original Poltergeist? Well, it ...