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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis
I give a pass to you folks who first saw it as a kid, but that doesn't make it scary for real. As a kid in Queens I would watch Japanese monster movies in the middle of the night and then look out my 7th floor apartment window to make sure the Empire State Building was still there.
I'll agree that the movie did a somewhat competent job with a few snapshots of childhood fears. But scary in a point A to point B way? In a "Gee, I'm worried that these people I care about might not make it out alive" way? No.
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As a child, I had a fear or open closets (I had nightmares) and of trees that could swallow you whole (one neighborhood tree, in particular, based on stories and older kid told to younger ones). So, when I saw Poltergeist, which had both a closet AND a tree that swallowed kids whole, it terrified me. As a result, I still get residual creeps when I watch it. Heh.