Additional audio options include French, German, Italian, Spanish (Spain), and Spanish (Latin America) 2.0 Dolby Digital. Subtitle options include English SDH, French, German SDH, Italian SDH, Spanish (Spain), Dutch, Spanish (Latin America), Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish. Starring: Craig T. Nelson , JoBeth Williams , Beatrice Straight , Dominique Dunne , Oliver Robins , Heather O'Rourke

The Making of Poltergeist (7:18) - Though it's brief, this 1982 MGM featurette (new to disc, apparently!), offers a

Poltergeist 4K Audio

NOTE: Both the 4K and Blu-ray discs in this release feature the same audio options, reviewed below.

Poltergeist 4K Blu-ray delivers stunningly beautiful video and superb audio in this excellent Blu-ray releaseThere are unquestionably many Spielbergian touches in Poltergeist; he did indeed co-write and produce it, after all. The suburban family milieu is pure Spielberg, as are the more melodramatic moments in the film. When Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams have their dramatic farewell before she plunges into the abyss, the camera cuts away to Beatrice Straight’s tearful reaction, and that’s one of Spielberg’s standard techniques to manipulate the audience by letting them know that it’s time to cry. Yet Hooper’s stamp is present on the final product as well, as there are numerous shots and bits of editing that didn’t quite fit into Spielberg’s house style at the time—for example, the repeated use of crash cut zooms onto faces, or the montage of Nelson screaming from different camera angles after the appearance of the ghost head. (Spielberg would go on to use similar setups two years later in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but he arguably learned the technique from Hooper and The Texas Chain S aw Massacre.) Great film I hope we're going to get some new and fresh high quality extras. This film was a massive hit and it's never had any home video lub. So, Poltergeist ends up being much more than a mere horror-sampler for teens to break into the genre with. It possesses a wonderful “spiritual” ambience, a daring flare for visual invention, a staggering level of visceral intensity and a true sense of the fantastique. In weiteren Rollen Beatrice Straight (1914-2001, mit Shelley Winters & Bette Davis in Ein Fremder ruft an, mit Audrey Hepburn in Geschichte einer Nonne, Oscar-Gewinnerin 1977 für Network) als Parapsychologin Dr. Lesh "In Parapsychologie kann man hierzulande kein Diplom machen!" sojrner Yeah, I just don't get it. I own exactly one steelbook - The Phantom of the Paradise - and that is because it was the only way I could get the movie on blu-ray. So people buy steelbooks as investments and showpieces rather than for the content?