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Movie 27. Poltergeist (1982)

So this is apparently one of the more OG horror movies. We watched it in October along with a bunch of other scary stuff. And... well, I'm just not that big a fan of horror stuff.

For the most part, I think the age was probably a good thing. Characters weren't overly self-aware and there wasn't a ton of Marvel-ized dialogue, which there didn't need to be. I guess this whole "we don't believe you" trope also didn't really appear here - it was pretty straight up us versus the house. The most jarringly dated part was construction workers catcalling the fifteen-year-old daughter on her way to school and her welcoming it. Gross.

The movie definitely leans toward tedium for a lot of it. The house attacking its residents was pretty interesting at first, but the nonsensical resolution as they get some medium and then go "through to the other side" becomes a rather dull mess. And while at the end the clown attack after the messy big resolution is scary, at that point the movie's already lost my interest multiple times with its length.
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