Poltergeist
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09/01/20 • 109 min
“They’re heeeeere”
This week our hosts watch Poltergeist, that other Tobe Hooper film that may have been ghooooost directed by Steven Spielberg. But is that accusation fair? What does it say about Hollywood not giving credit to someone who directed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, thinking he also couldn’t direct a family-focused movie where no one dies?
“They’re heeeeere”
This week our hosts watch Poltergeist, that other Tobe Hooper film that may have been ghooooost directed by Steven Spielberg. But is that accusation fair? What does it say about Hollywood not giving credit to someone who directed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, thinking he also couldn’t direct a family-focused movie where no one dies?
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
I hope you know, I pack a chainsaw,
I’ll skin your ass raw,
And if my day keeps going this way, I just might,
Make some chili tonight
Our hosts watch The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), and learn how everything is bigger in Texas, including their lumbering serial killers. It’s the story of one family’s perilous journey to protect themselves from an onslaught of hippie teens! ...or something like that.
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Saw
“I want to play a game.” This week our hosts watch the film that launched a thousand jaw-splitter traps: 2004’s Saw! Chances are if you were a horror fan in the 2000s you were aware of the Saw franchise. Love it or hate it, it can’t be denied that it made a permanent mark on the face of horror. It reignited the public’s interest in being served up an annual horror entry that we hadn’t seen since Freddy and Jason.
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