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Geek Tyrant
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Fun POLTERGIEST Poster Art Created By Artist Danny Schlitz — GeekTyrant
Here's a great print that was created inspired by Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist . It's called 'They're Here!' and it was created by artist Danny Schlitz for Hero Complex Gallery. The 24x36 limited edition print of 50, is currently avilable for purchase fo $75. There's also 16x24 print that you can buy for $50. Click here to order. Poltergeist stands as one of the most iconic haunted house films ever made. What makes it so effective and enduring is its ability to blend Spielberg's signature sense of suburban wonder and family warmth with Hooper's unrelenting horror sensibilities. The result is a terrifying yet heartfelt story that turns the American dream into a nightmare. From the eerie static of a television screen to the gut-wrenching moment when little Carol Anne is pulled into another dimension, Poltergeist delivers both psychological tension and jaw-dropping practical effects. It's a horror film wrapped in a Spielbergian glow, making its scares hit even harder because they invade such a relatable, everyday world.
Metro
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Terrifying 'cursed' 80s horror film arrives on Amazon Prime Video
An iconic 80s horror film dubbed 'devastating' and 'frightening' has finally arrived on Amazon Prime Video. Poltergeist, released in 1982, follows the story of a suburban family whose lives are turned upside down when a malevolent spirit kidnaps their daughter. The Freeling family—made up of Steve (Craig T. Nelson), Diane (JoBeth Williams), teenaged Dana (Dominique Dunne), eight-year-old Robbie (Oliver Robins), and five-year-old Carol Ann (Heather O'Rourke)—seemingly have the perfect life: a happy family, successful careers, and a bright future. But one night, Carol Ann begins communicating with a ghost through their TV set, which initially seems playful and friendly, but things take a sinister turn when the youngster goes missing. Based on a screenplay by Steven Spielberg and directed by Tobe Hooper, Poltergeist was a massive hit at the box office and was nominated for three Academy Awards. The film was followed by Poltergeist II: The Other Side in 1986, Poltergeist III in 1988, and a 2015 remake. It has long been branded a cursed film due to the sheer amount of unusual phenomena that occurred on set, as well as the death of Heather O'Rourke in 1988. O'Rourke was just 12 years old when she died of congenital stenosis of the intestine complicated by septic shock on February 1, before filming of the third film wrapped. Poltergeist currently holds an 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics' consensus reading: 'Smartly filmed, tightly scripted, and—most importantly—consistently frightening, Poltergeist is a modern horror classic.' The Times hailed the film as 'a masterclass in creeping suburban horror', while said it is 'One of the most fun haunted house movies ever made.' Boston Globe wrote: '[It] raises interesting psychological issues in the context of a baroque ghost story. 'It's a devastating commentary on the tv-oriented suburban lifestyle. Finally, it demonstrates the power and efficacy of the story told from the child's point of view.' Looking back at the film in 2007, Slant Magazine added: 'After a quarter-century, Poltergeist remains one of the most popular movies whose reputation rests almost exclusively on behind-the-scenes diversions.' Meanwhile, The New York Times said: 'Poltergeist is like a thoroughly enjoyable nightmare, one that you know that you can always wake up from, and one in which, at the end, no one has permanently been damaged. It's also witty in a fashion that Alfred Hitchcock might have appreciated.' Speaking about the making of the film in 2010, Hooper explained more about the strange happenings on set that have made Poltergeist so legendary. More Trending 'Almost everyone got injured. I used a cane through, like, half of the picture,' he began. 'I woke up one night with a leg cramp. I don't know if you've ever had a cramp in your leg when you wake up, and you start beating on the cramp. And after an hour, it didn't go away. And the cramp was so bad it pulled all the ligaments; it pulled the tendons away from the bone. So I had to walk with. 'But that was a minor injury compared to some of the injuries. No one was killed in the making of the film, but something happened to everyone.' Poltergeist is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video . Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: UK viewers escape the heat and binge legendary series free on YouTube MORE: 'Epic' sci-fi series returns to streaming — and four more shows to binge this month MORE: All 4 films in iconic horror series hailed 'a cinematic masterpiece' coming to Netflix
Scotsman
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Rosa Garland: Primal Bog
Rosa Garland Rosa Garland (Trash Salad, The Kink Shame Show) returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August with Primal Bog, a clown/live art mash-up that joyfully plunges into erotic desire in its ugliest, stickiest, and most liberating forms. Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... In the metaphorical Bog - a swampy zone of our psyche thick with shame, taboo, and irresistible allure - audiences meet PB, a clownish, nakedly confident adventurer who is unafraid of slime, worms, mess, or psychological taboos. Through lip syncs, storytelling, lesbian slime wrestling, live tattooing, and delightful cameos from Sean Bean, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Rosa's own asshole, Primal Bog embarks on a playful and rebellious journey into desires too often hidden. Inspired by Rosa's personal journey through psychosexual therapy and queer intimacy, Primal Bog dares to reject commodified self-care and corporate-friendly queer liberation. Expect an unapologetically grotesque experience: bright orange slime, real worms, bodily fluids, and a defiant celebration of bodies unburdened by the male gaze. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Rosa Garland says: 'Finding your pleasure isn't always clean or aesthetically pleasing, especially when you've grown up queer and closeted. I want audiences to dive into the strangest and most liberating ride of their lives - to embrace curiosity, tenderness, playfulness, and even flippancy with our bodies rather than constantly 'preserving the merchandise.' Come into the bog; the mud is fine.' Previous shows by Rosa Garland have earned critical acclaim and sell-out runs at Soho Theatre, VAULT Festival, and Edinburgh Fringe, with Trash Salad named among the Telegraph's best comedy shows at Fringe 2022 and 2023. Alongside solo clown work, Rosa is a founding member of Poltergeist theatre company ( who make heartfelt, thoughtful, unabashedly fun and unashamedly nerdy shows and experiences. Poltergeist won the Samuel French New Play Award 2018 and Untapped Award 2019, with two sell-out Edinburgh Fringe runs,and most recently completed a second run of their critically acclaimed adaptation of Alice in Wonderland at Brixton House (★★★★★ - The Stage). Other recent credits include workshopping 'Scenes from a Repatriation' at the Royal Court, and a role in BAFTA-nominated short film 'Quiet Life' for BBC iPlayer. Primal Bog invites everyone to confront and embrace the joyful weirdness and shared vulnerability within our own inner bogs.
Geek Tyrant
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Cool Poster Art For POLTERGEIST Created BY Artist True Spilt Milk — GeekTyrant
If you're a fan of director Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg's classic horror film Poltergeist , I've got a print here for you that you might want to add to your collection! The poster art was created by artist True Spilt Milk for Hero Complex Gallery. There are two limited edition variants 16x24 ($50) and 24x36 ($75). Poltergeist is one of my favorite horror movies and it tells the story of a suburban family whose home becomes the site of terrifying paranormal activity after their youngest daughter, Carol Anne, is mysteriously taken by supernatural forces. What begins as harmless oddities, like chairs stacking themselves, quickly escalates into full-blown horror as the family grapples with malevolent spirits, a possessed television, and the unraveling truth that their home was built over a disturbed burial ground. Desperate to save Carol Anne, the family enlists a group of parapsychologists and a spiritual medium, culminating in a series of chilling encounters that cement the film's status as one of the genre's most memorable ghost stories. The movie tapped into primal fears surrounding the safety of children, the sanctity of the home, and the unsettling idea that technology could become a conduit for evil. Its iconic moments. The movie continue to influence horror filmmakers today.
Wales Online
13-06-2025
- General
- Wales Online
I used a Ouija Board for fun when I was a teenager and this is why I've never touched one since
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info As a child in the 70s and 80s I was fascinated by the supernatural, aliens, space - anything and everything outside the sphere of everyday normality. I would collect those series of magazines they did, like The Unexplained, which delved into mysteries no-one really understood. The 80s were the era of the original Poltergeist films, ET, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Popular culture was awash with the other-worldly and we all wanted to be Elliott and find a friendly alien in our garden shed, then be chased by police on our Grifter and Chopper bikes. But these things were always just fiction or someone else's story. I wanted things like aliens, ghosts and extrasensory perception to be real, but I'd had no first hand experience that they were. For our free daily briefing on the biggest issues facing the nation, sign up to the Wales Matters newsletter here That all changed one night when I was a young teenager and I spent the evening with my parents at a relative's house. My parents had always been pretty straight-laced - as far as I was aware. My dad was a businessman, my mum a stay-at home parent at that time. They would mostly scoff or tease me when I'd regale them with stories I'd read about 'real-life' supernatural events, or UFO encounters. I had no reason to believe that they thought it was anything other than made-up nonsense. Then, that night, they decided to use a Ouija Board to contact the dead. It sounds dramatic, but it wasn't. It was a lark in their minds, a bit of fun after a few drinks. It was a popular thing to do in the 60s and 70s, despite the odd scary story - we weren't a family of occultists if that's what you were thinking - the reality is that we were oh so very normal. They had no 'board' as such - they just had squares of paper, each one with a letter of the alphabet or a number on, arranged in a circle with a tall glass in the centre and a piece of paper with 'yes' or 'no' on it either side. Everyone then put their finger on the top of the glass while one person asked, over and over, "is there anybody there". My older sister and I weren't allowed to partake and were shut out of the room. But we snuck into the garden to watch through the window. I don't recall fully how much we saw, but I don't think we saw what happened next. However, I do remember everyone returning to the room later, all still in high spirits (if you excuse the pun). All bar one, that is. There was one person there who was known for always making jokes and winding people up. But he was quiet for the rest of the evening, sat, seemingly staring into space, deep in thought. I was told that, for days afterwards, he would not return to the room where the event took place. I remember being surprised at that. We spoke to my parents after and I think they explained a little of what had happened. The general gist was that you asked questions and the glass would move, with everyone's fingers still on it, either to reply 'yes' or 'no', to spell out some response using the letters, or count out one with the numbers. I recall they seemed fairly chilled about it, even my dad which surprised me, although I felt he was still pretty cynical. My mum had always claimed to have 'feelings' about certain places, especially if something bad had happened there, so was a little more spiritual, you might say, although neither were or still are religious in any way. My mum's advice was that, if you ever used a Ouija Board, or the DIY equivalent, you should never ask about the future, because you might learn something, true or not, that you'd rather not hear. Someone, maybe her, told me a story at the time about how some schoolchildren or students had once been using a Ouija Board in a classroom and how the glass had smashed the moment a particular girl had entered the room. I had no idea of the significance of that story, if it was just coincidence, or even if it was true, but it fuelled the feeling within me that people were messing with something they did not really understand, the stuff of myth and hushed conversations, something potentially powerful. Of course, being an acutely curious kid, the temptation was just too great. I think it was with my older sister that we first tried a DIY Ouija Board with the bits of paper and the glass. My memory has faded, but I recall something short-lived happening, but only after quite some time. But it was when I encouraged a friend to try it with me, that things really started to happen. The first evening we tried, nothing happened for what seemed like ages. We were on the verge of giving up, when suddenly there was movement. After that, it didn't stop. In fact, we just had to stop ourselves in the end as I had to leave, even though the 'conversation' on the board seemed set to continue all night. I can't recall everything we asked - we avoided questions about the future, as per my mum's advice - so i think it was mainly people's names, where they were from, where they were. Few of the answers have remained in my head. You would have thought that with something so momentous, I'd remember everything but, weirdly, I recall very little - although it is 40-odd years ago to be fair. The one thing I do recall with great clarity is the answer it (I'm using the word 'it' for ease right now - but I'll come back to that) gave to one particular question - as it stood out so much. That question was: "How long have you been there." I can't recall the exact context to that question, but I remember that we had established it was somewhere, shall we say, not of this world, and we wanted to find out for how long. If I was somehow controlling the glass myself, and I wanted to answer that question, I might have gone to some set number of years, like 50, 100, 364 - whatever. I have always thought that would be what most people would do. But it didn't do that. First it went to the 'zero', then to the number '1', then '2', then '3' and so on. When it got to '5' or '6', I asked: "Are you trying to say you have been there too long to remember". It shot, without hesitation, to 'Yes'. We dabbled with the Ouija Board a number of times after that, but with diminishing returns. It either took too long, or the response was so weak, that eventually we gave up. I've never done it since, although I thought about it a few times. I've never stopped thinking about what it all meant and whether there really was an 'it', a spirit of some kind, involved at all. The obvious possibility was that one of the two of us was pushing the glass. We suspected that at the time, even though I trusted my good friend and, I believe, she I, but to rule it out, we tried in turn to push the glass without the other knowing we were. It was impossible. Your finger would not slavishly follow wherever the glass was pushed. It either left the glass if it was pulled away from you. Or you stopped it if it was pushed towards you. Try it yourself - there is no way to push a glass around the table when two or more people have their finger on it, without both or all those present co-operating. The second thing was - we were using a small, traditional sherry glass with a long stem and a small area which held the sherry. Try and push it with your finger and the friction of the table would make it tip over. We just couldn't do it - it fell over every time, especially when you tried to move it towards you. So - one of us couldn't have faked it - it could only have been both of us co-operating, and I know for a fact I wasn't. There would have to have been a conversation between us to fake it and prior knowledge about how we would answer each question. There was neither of those things, and at the end of the day, what would have been the point? We were alone in the room, there was no-one to dupe except ourselves. Agreeing to push a glass around a table and try and pretend to ourselves it was neither of us would have been utterly pointless. Another possibility was that, somehow, our minds and actions became linked, that we pushed the glass around the table in subconscious coordination through some shared hypnosis which manifested physically through our co-operation in deciding where the glass would go and stopping it from falling over. That's a pretty weird explanation in itself - although shared hypnosis is a real-world thing. It happens, but you'd really need a trained hypnotist in the room to carry it out. Neither of us were hypnotists at the time or since, as far as I am aware, and there was no-one else in the room. But, still a possibility I guess, if unlikely. As I've got older, my interest in science has deepened. I'm fascinated by theoretical physics, the quantum world, all the weird quantum effects that have been discovered in experiments. I know about theories of parallel universes, hidden dimensions - the stuff of science fiction you might think, but all actually established theories of reality explored by some of our greatest minds. One such scientifically observed phenomenon is called quantum entanglement which basically means the properties of two particles can be intrinsically linked even if they are separated by a vast distance. Albert Einstein called it 'spooky action at a distance'. The term 'spooky' is not one you will come across much in science but its use by one of the most famous and cleverest scientists ever is an indication that there's plenty we didn't understand when Einstein was around and still don't. I'm not religious. Lately, I've thought of myself as more of an atheist. But I'm also open-minded to the idea that there are things out there we don't understand. People once looked at the sky and saw lightning and thought the gods were angry. Perhaps one day people will look back on our scientific theories and observations of the 21st century with the same bemusement. There is no proven scientific evidence for the existence of ghosts or spirits, I know that. But until we can explain everything, it's difficult to 100% rule out anything. Maybe it was all some shared hypnosis, or an elaborate hoax that I or both of use fell hook, line and sinker for. Maybe someone is still having a quiet chuckle at our expense. Perhaps we live, as some scientists postulate, in some kind of simulation and someone 'up there' pushing all the buttons like we're in one big game of The Sims thought it would be fun to play a little prank on these two gullible kids with their Ouija Board. Whatever the reason, I can't explain it. I've gone through it over and over in my mind, like I did at the time, and I've never cracked the mystery. It makes me question everything I know. And that's why I've never done it since. Because, if those really were spirits of the dead, or some kind of floating souls, voices from a parallel universe and so on... then they were there, in that house with us, or occupying our minds. If that was the case, my thinking ever since has been, "why would I want to invite them into my home". I don't really like ghost horror films, that sort of thing - they freak me out and I end up spooked in my own home, afraid of dark unseen corners. But, if by using a Ouija Board you welcome in things that wouldn't have been there otherwise - how do you know they have gone when you finish. And how do you know their intentions are good? It's a freaky thought, and that's why you'll never (probably) find me asking that question ever again: "Is there anybody there". I'd genuinely really like to know the answer to that question. Is there anybody there? But until someone can definitively prove whether there is or there isn't - I'd very much rather not take the risk of potentially welcoming them into my life.
