Who's messing with the kitchen chairs? | Poltergeist (1982) | Warner Bros. UK

A typical family in a quiet suburb of a normal California faces a frightening ordeal when its home is invaded by a Poltergeist. Late one night, 10-year-old Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke) hears a voice coming from inside the television set ... At first, the spirits that invade the Freeling's home seem like playful children. But then they turn angry. And when Carol Anne is pulled from this world into another, Steve and Diane Freeling (Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams--In the Land of Women) turn to an exorcist (Zelda Rubinstein) in this horror classic from director Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre films) and producer and screenwriter Steven Spielberg.​

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[RM-pfwd]

Poltergeist is a movie that gives me that comforting 80s nostalgia I crave on a rainy sunday evening

[rob]

The chair stack is such a powerful “scary” movie moment. So memorable. So disconcerting.

[easternyellowjacket]

"Oh honey, you are going to ruin you're eyes this is no good" as she switches it to a war scene. LOL!

[johnsantiago]

I love the way she jumps up and down like a cheerleader when the chair finally slides across the floor. How adorable is that I ask you?

[andychandler]

A masterpiece of a scene. Long scene no cuts. Then the fade from one kitchen to the exact same kitchen in a home for sale. Brilliant.

This whole movie is an allegory of nightmare suburban expansion/living.

[ayndie]

This was the first horror movie I ever watched. My grandmother was a horror fan and I was spending the night with her. I was only seven years old and it made my parents mad that she let me watch it but I loved it! RIP, grandma!

[zetasong]

Craig T. Nelson and Jobeth Williams knocked it out of the park...great American actors both...

[dougl]

I can’t believe this is 42 years ago. Seems like yesterday

[paso]

HA!, HA! I love that line when she tells her husband…”Now reach back in your past when you used to have an open mind…”. LOL!! Brilliant writing in this classic movie! The fact that he didn’t get the sarcasm had me on the floor laughing into the carpet! 😂

[Clara-phmy]

My favourite supernatural film. Brilliant and I have watched this so many times and never get bored.

[renatoschechter]

The most terrifying part of this is the guy tasting the sauce and putting back the spoon in the pot

[EV-wpfj]

I saw this movie in the theaters in 1982 with my grandma, who had many ghost stories of her own. Sadly, she's no longer here, and best as I can tell, still not a ghost. But she loved this movie. :-)

[stevebloomer]

When Americans could afford to live, and Jo-Beth Williams' legs were 2nd to none.

[BB]

42 years ago! Can still vaguely remember watching this in the theater. Impressed the hell out of us. American Dad did a great send up of that movie.

[inverlock]

If I saw my chairs doing that I’d move.

[petezereeeah]

Saw this in the theater. When the guy was pulling his face apart in the mirror a teenaged girl sitting a row behind me started crying hysterically. Scarred for life

[fleurelise]

Okay, that chair pyramid would not have been considered cute. New house search same afternoon 😂😂😂😂

[joshuah]

1982, WHAT A YEAR!!!
I was 12 and I saw these movies in theaters:
QUEST FOR FIRE (underrated, won the Oscar for best Make-up)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN,
POLTERGEIST (twice),
E.T. (twice),
TRON,
BLADE RUNNER,
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP,
HALLOWEEN 3 (I love that movie, I don't care what anyone says),
THE DARK CRYSTAL (twice),
TOOTSIE (twice).
I wanted to see THE THING, but it was such a bomb, it played in one theater near me for two weeks and was gone. Saw it on VHS years later and LOVED IT!!!!

[ikmor]

"Don't ruin your eyes!" - puts on deafeningly loud sounds a decimeter from the girl's ears.

[yolandaponkers]

So many parts of this scene make me laugh, from the switching the TV to a war movie for her five year old to the lowering of the blinds in the guy’s face, but the dog begging and bringing his toy to a random place in the ceiling always spooked me.