Poltergeist

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    Big budget Hollywood horror movies are everything but scary. Everything is too polished, everyone are too good looking. A good horror movie needs to be rough with unknown actors, it needs to look sketchy and grainy and unpolished. Thats why the old horror movies are the best.

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    • Original Poltergeist wasn't a low budget movie.fadein11
    • Budget: $10.7 million
      wasn't a high a budget      benfal99
    • Return of the Jedi had 45$millions in budget, same year.benfal99
    • < 10million budget back then was NOT a low budget movie.fadein11
    • <this. 10 mill was a pretty high budget for a movie back in 1982Akagiyama
    • It wasn't as cookie cutter as the Hollywood films of today thoughukit2
    • what befall says is true - desite the budget, it still had a gritty creepy dangeorus look to it.inteliboy
    • this remake is full of pretty white faces, perfect hair, and friendly polished lighting.inteliboy
    • we all agree on that. gritty look is down to 1970s/80s technicolour film stockfadein11
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