Are the corpses used in the movie poltergeist real ones?
In 2002, on an episode of VH1’s I Love the 80s, JoBeth Williams revealed that the production used real skeletons (not corpses) when filming the swimming pool scene. Many of the people on the set were alarmed by this and led others to believe the “curse” on the film series was because of this use. Craig Reardon, a special effects artist who worked on the film, commented at the time that it was cheaper to purchase real skeletons than plastic ones as the plastic ones involved labor in making them.
