Q 01/05

Who is credited as director of the 1982 film Poltergeist?

A) Steven Spielberg

B) Joe Dante

C) John Carpenter

D) Tobe Hooper

Answer · why

D) Tobe Hooper

Spielberg wrote the story and produced but was contractually barred from directing while making E.T. The Directors Guild later investigated whether Ho...

Q 02/05

Steven Spielberg could not direct Poltergeist because he was contractually tied up making which film?

A) Raiders of the Lost Ark

B) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

C) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

D) Twilight Zone: The Movie

Answer · why

B) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

The two films opened a week apart in June 1982, and Poltergeist lost all three of its Oscar nominations to E.T.

Q 03/05

Poltergeist grew out of a scrapped Spielberg project conceived as a horror sequel to which of his films?

A) Raiders of the Lost Ark

B) The Sugarland Express

C) Close Encounters of the Third Kind

D) Twilight Zone: The Movie

Answer · why

C) Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The project was called Night Skies. Hooper was less keen on the sci-fi angle and proposed a ghost story instead; the alien side became E.T.

Q 04/05

What is the name of the planned California community where the Freeling family lives?

A) Cuesta Verde

B) Vista Bonita

C) Sierra Linda

D) Loma Alta

Answer · why

A) Cuesta Verde

Steve Freeling sells houses in the development, which turns out to have been built over a cemetery whose gravestones, but not bodies, were relocated.

Q 05/05

How old is Carol Anne Freeling in the original Poltergeist?

A) Three

B) Seven

C) Nine

D) Five

Answer · why

D) Five

Her siblings are eight-year-old Robbie and sixteen-year-old Dana. Heather O'Rourke, who played her, was six when the film came out.