"Poltergeist" BD : Your thoughts?
#26
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: "Poltergeist" BD : Your thoughts?
Specifically, I think there may be missing footage that takes place in the scene where Diane is demonstrating the unusual phenomena in the kitchen to Steve with the chairs and Carol Ann moving across the floor, etc. Right in the middle of that scene ("the middle" at least as I recall it), there's an extremely abrupt cut to the scene where the couple is at the neighbor's door asking if he'd noticed anything funny going on. I thought... a fairly abrupt elipsis that I didn't recall from my many prior viewings? I backed up, watched it again, and it seemed to me that there was a small chunk of the film missing (a little bit from both scenes, the end of the former and the beginning of the latter). But I didn't have another version on hand to compare, and decided to bring it to the experts here... and totally forgot until now.
#27
Re: "Poltergeist" BD : Your thoughts?
I remember the abrupt cut too. Is it still like that on the Blu-ray release? I haven't watched my copy yet.
#29
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Re: "Poltergeist" BD : Your thoughts?
http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s20jc4polter.html
The answer you all seek
IIRC, it was cut because the scene involved a Pizza place that didn't want to advertise after the film was ready to be released. Someone was going to come in with pizza...
The answer you all seek

IIRC, it was cut because the scene involved a Pizza place that didn't want to advertise after the film was ready to be released. Someone was going to come in with pizza...
#30
DVD Talk Gold Edition
Re: "Poltergeist" BD : Your thoughts?
Thanks, Gizmo! Of course, I have no idea if I've ever seen this scene cut any differently. I also don't have any old VHS tape version, even one I taped for myself off of cable in the really old days, of which I have ton stuffed in a box somewhere. I can't trust my memory on this, so unless an old videotape or reel shows up somewhere, we may never know for certain...
#31
DVD Talk Hero
Re: "Poltergeist" BD : Your thoughts?
Does the 2010 blu-ray release contain all the special features from the 25th anniversary 2008 blu-ray book release?


#32
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#33
DVD Talk Hero
Re: "Poltergeist" BD : Your thoughts?
Thanks and I assume the same transfer
#34
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#35
DVD Talk Platinum Edition
Re: "Poltergeist" BD : Your thoughts?
I just watched this one recently and here's a thought. If they cut a scene due to avoid dropping (probably Pizza Hut's name), why would they have looped Heather O'Rourke's voiceover saying "I want pepperoni pizza" right before she slides across the floor? Her mouth is obviously not moving at all.




