Poltergeist

The younger kids (Oliver Robins, Heather O’Rourke), frightened by thunder, have wound up in bed with their parents (Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams) when young Carol Anne, watching the TV sign-off again, has her most tangible contact yet with the visitors, in the Steven Spielberg-produced Poltergeist, 1982.

Now clear strange doings in the housing development, mom JoBeth Williams with the construction crew and the dog, and rightly alarmed by young Carol Anne, who’s being visited by something coming through the TV, Craig T. Nelson the real-estate agent dad, in Poltergeist, 1982.

More of the suburban idyll, though no one has ever made clear quite what was directed by Tobe Hooper or by producer Steven Spielberg, JoBeth Williams the mom, Craig T. Nelson the dad with football buddies, Heather O’Rourke as young Carol Anne, in Poltergeist, 1982.

Evil spirits abduct a little girl, causing chaos and terror for her family in Poltergeist (1982), Tobe Hooper's supernatural thriller.