Movie Substrate · Film
Poltergeist (1982)
★ 7.2 · 3,307 ratings on TMDB
They're here.
The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.
DirectorTobe Hooper
CastBeatrice Straight, Craig T. Nelson, Dominique Dunne, Heather O'Rourke, JoBeth Williams, Martin Casella
GenresHorror
The emergence reading
In Poltergeist, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “suburban haunting”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fear, family, consumerism, death, spirituality.
↷ the deadUSfearfamilyconsumerismdeathspirituality
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)consciousness in the dead · the further
Poltergeist (2015)consciousness in the dead · haunted house
The Ring Two (2005)consciousness in the dead · cursed video horror
Coco (2017)consciousness in the dead · afterlife of memory
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)consciousness in the dead · nightmare dreamscape
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)consciousness in the dead · spectral invasionSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · death, family
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)consciousness in machines · consumerism, death
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)consciousness in monsters · family, fear
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)consciousness in animals · family, fear
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)consciousness in objects · family, fear
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)consciousness in monsters · death, fear
