Poltergeist (1982)
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Wikidata Q497622, film, IMDb tt0084516, TMDB 609: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Tobe Hooper as director (‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan).
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
The Rewatchables' awards
Picked in other episodes
- Apex Mountain (pick) for The Big Chill (1983): JoBeth Williams, 1981 to 1983. unknown · 1:31:19
Who talked about it
The Rewatchables
- Chris Ryan: 1 line in ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan
- Unattributed: 2 lines, the speaker unknown or under 0.5 sure.
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says it drew on another film or person.
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
JoBeth Williams: 1 line career ×1
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career (career):
JoBeth Williams → Poltergeist.
Poltergeist is her apex mountain right before this.
“Poltergeist, right? Right before this?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
Tobe Hooper: 1 line career ×1
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career (career payoff):
Tobe Hooper → Poltergeist.
Hooper won the movie: after Chainsaw he was a Hollywood hot shot at Universal with Spielberg and directed Poltergeist.
“he had the best best career coming out of this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:31:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
Weird Science: 1 line craft ×1
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craft (craft):
Weird Science → Poltergeist.
The party-scene effects, objects moving around the living room, hold up like Poltergeist.
“like poltergeist.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:50:19 · Kyle Brandt (0.35 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan, first at 1:15:38, 2 times
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt, first at 0:50:19, 1 time
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey, first at 0:14:47, 1 time
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey, first at 0:53:21, 4 times
What was said about it, by kind
career (2)
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career (career payoff):
Tobe Hooper → Poltergeist.
Hooper won the movie: after Chainsaw he was a Hollywood hot shot at Universal with Spielberg and directed Poltergeist.
“he had the best best career coming out of this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:31:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them) -
career (career):
JoBeth Williams → Poltergeist.
Poltergeist is her apex mountain right before this.
“Poltergeist, right? Right before this?”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:31:19 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (1)
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craft (craft):
Weird Science → Poltergeist.
The party-scene effects, objects moving around the living room, hold up like Poltergeist.
“like poltergeist.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:50:19 · Kyle Brandt (0.35 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
None.
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- Steven Spielberg: Hooper's Universal-lot connection (The Rewatchables, ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan)
- Tobe Hooper: director (The Rewatchables, ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan)
- JoBeth Williams: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)