Poltergeist News

When I decided to choose Poltergeist as this week's horror movie, I only knew of Ryan Gray of UNO coming to the French Quarter to monitor the dig of a pool in the 600 block of Rampart.

Poltergeist is another one of my all-time favorite movies and another one I've discussed at length before, so I'll save any broad "this is awesome-amazing!" statements and focus on the awesome picture.

"The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths, in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother, Franklin.

American horror master Tobe Hooper has contributed substantially to modern classic scarefests and what we consider to be a the standard American horror canon, so it's interesting that his latest film, Djinn , was filmed entirely in the United Arab Emirates and uses a menace straight out of Arab folklore and Islamic teachings.

Although he made his name in the late '70s and early '80s with horror classics like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , Salem's Lot , and Poltergeist , director Tobe Hooper 's been laying low as of late.