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A ghost story that’s traditional yet different is how I’d begin to describe Poltergeist, a film that mixes classic horror and suspense with a fuzzy feel-good message. Think Texas Chain Saw Massacre meets A.I. Artificial Intelligence at least in spirit. These choices aren’t coincidental: The movie is directed by Tobe Hooper who also helmed the former horror classic, and written by Steven Speilberg who gave us the syrupy A.I. Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O’Rourke) is a young child who has mysterious friends that she communicates with over the television. Turns out that the mysterious friends are poltergeists who’ve lost their way to heaven. The spirits are hanging around because the house she lives in was the site of a graveyward with bodies still buried underneath. Everything’s fine until a malevolent spirit takes away Carol Anne and her desperate family tries to get her back. There are some memorable scenes in the film, including one where Carol Anne’s mum ends up falling in a recently
With Knowing nabbing the #1 slot at the box office (lord only knows why), two people who are the toast of the town are the film’s writers, married couple Stiles White and Juliet Snowden. Why should you care? Because they’re also the duo who will be responsible for the upcoming Poltergeist and Birds remakes. The twosome sat down with The Wrap today to talk Knowing, but they also spilled the beans on the aforementioned remakes. Dig it. “With something like The Birds, you can take the concept of birds gone crazy and put that onto a myriad of situations,” Snowden tells The Wrap. “Whereas with some other remakes, we really felt that those were movies that we really couldn’t think of new scenes or ideas. Some of these remakes are already-perfect movies. We’re not saying The Birds isn’t a perfect movie — but when we heard about that we had, instantly, a lot of ideas about what we could do [in the present] and how we would change it. It was presented to us as they wanted to go back to the ori
