An alternate scene of Jobeth Williams writhing in bed remains in the film, but its darker implications are less apparent.įrom that same Cinefex article, there were a few other items mentioned. Wood contrived a special harness to facilitate "rape" movements in that position, but when the idea endangered the picture's PG rating, it, too, was scrapped. During the scene, the stain was to have grown bigger and more amorphous, and the girl was supposed to roll through it from her bed." A more risque notion was to be the violation of Diane Freeling by unseen forces as she involuntarily defied gravity in her upturned room. "There were holes in the wall so we could actuate it manually from behind, and we had people strapped to the outside of the set, putting their hands through. "We made a large latex bladder for the stain," Mike Wood related. It was a pulsating, organic, ugly thing." The concept was eventually discarded, but not before the physical effects crew had gone ahead and built it and it went before the cameras. During that, there was going to be a kind of 'stain' in her path-something foreshadowing the closet turning into a mouth. The one scene that sticks in my mind is where Diane is pulled up the wall, across the ceiling, and down the other side. "At times we got overwhelmed by fun effects and audacious ideas," Mitch Suskin remarked, "possibly more than the film required. Who Really Directed Poltergeist? ( of 3)įrom a 1982 "Cinefex" article about the film's visual effects:.25th Anniversary Panel Discussion (Video.
Who Really Directed "Poltergeist"? ( of 3).Why the "Special" Edition 25th Anniversary DVD wasn't.Who really directed Poltergeist? ( of 3).
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