Poltergeist (Blu-ray)

"They're here," - seeming almost whimsical at first, playing stack-the-chair games in the Freelings kitchen. Then things turn darker. A storm erupts, a tree attacks and little Carol Anne Freeling is whisked into a spectral void. As her family confronts horrors galore and fights to bring the youngster back, something else is here too: A new benchmark in Hollywood ghost stories. Producers Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall and director Tobe Hooper head the elite scream team of this classic whose nerve-jangling effects include floating phantasms, the fiercest monster ever to pop out of a closet and an entire house collapsing into nothingness. Welcome to Home Sweet Haunted Home.

Starring: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins, Heather O'Rourke, Marty Casella, Clair Leucart, Clair E. Leucart, Jane Feinberg, Lou Perry, Martin Casella, Mike Fenton, Noel Conlon, Robert Broyles, Michael McManus, Virginia Kiser, Richard Lawson, Zelda Rubinstein, James Karen, Dirk Blocker, Allan Graf, Joseph Walsh, Helen Baron, Sonny Landham, Jeff Bannister, William Vail, Philip Stone, Richard Broyles, Craig Simmons, Dana Gendian, Jaimi Gendian

Director: Frank Marshall, Steven Spielberg

Rating: PG