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Mmhmmm.
And writer! But Hooper’s unique stylings shine through, too, pulling back on Spielberg whiz-bang and replacing it with pure atmosphere and opera!
November 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Mmhmmm.
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I’d happily shut up about it if everyone involved in the film made a tell-all documentary and released the behind the scenes material they’ve kept locked up for decades!
May 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I’d happily shut up about it if everyone involved in the film made a tell-all documentary and released the behind the scenes material they’ve kept locked up for decades!
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Mmhmmm.
And writer! But Hooper’s unique stylings shine through, too, pulling back on Spielberg whiz-bang and replacing it with pure atmosphere and opera!
November 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Mmhmmm.
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ever?
What world am I living in where a credited director doesn’t deserve “The Praise” just because a producer sets a film in cookie-cutter suburbs just outside the locus of Hollywood soundstages? My god!
What world am I living in where a credited director doesn’t deserve “The Praise” just because a producer sets a film in cookie-cutter suburbs just outside the locus of Hollywood soundstages? My god!
October 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
ever?
What world am I living in where a credited director doesn’t deserve “The Praise” just because a producer sets a film in cookie-cutter suburbs just outside the locus of Hollywood soundstages? My god!
What world am I living in where a credited director doesn’t deserve “The Praise” just because a producer sets a film in cookie-cutter suburbs just outside the locus of Hollywood soundstages? My god!
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Is there no sense of historical accountability? We are just going to let our entertainment journalists of yore get away with their kowtowing to MGM marketing spin doctors? We’re just going to fete Spielberg falsely - for getting verbally dressed down by an actor *twice* for doing wrong - forever and
October 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Is there no sense of historical accountability? We are just going to let our entertainment journalists of yore get away with their kowtowing to MGM marketing spin doctors? We’re just going to fete Spielberg falsely - for getting verbally dressed down by an actor *twice* for doing wrong - forever and
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And writer! But Hooper’s unique stylings shine through, too, pulling back on Spielberg whiz-bang and replacing it with pure atmosphere and opera!
October 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
And writer! But Hooper’s unique stylings shine through, too, pulling back on Spielberg whiz-bang and replacing it with pure atmosphere and opera!
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It’s spawned from a rumor mill on hyperdrive, likely aided by people on set (tech department heads) a little sore that Spielberg wasn’t making the film. Hooper even sued the studio right before the film’s release because of their role in planting and fanning the flames of the rumors.
August 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
It’s spawned from a rumor mill on hyperdrive, likely aided by people on set (tech department heads) a little sore that Spielberg wasn’t making the film. Hooper even sued the studio right before the film’s release because of their role in planting and fanning the flames of the rumors.
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Rubinstein amended her comments when pushed back on them by a costar, revising her experience as thus: “Tobe set up every shot, and then Steven came in and made final adjustments. So I think it was a split decision.” Aka, Hooper got his way at least half the time (from her fuzzy memories).
August 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Rubinstein amended her comments when pushed back on them by a costar, revising her experience as thus: “Tobe set up every shot, and then Steven came in and made final adjustments. So I think it was a split decision.” Aka, Hooper got his way at least half the time (from her fuzzy memories).
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Definitely Tobe Hooper!
Also, the hallway stretch scene was unscripted, not in Spielberg’s shooting script! It falls neatly in Hooper’s surrealizing of space and physics, especially in films like Eggshells and The Funhouse!
Also, the hallway stretch scene was unscripted, not in Spielberg’s shooting script! It falls neatly in Hooper’s surrealizing of space and physics, especially in films like Eggshells and The Funhouse!
June 9, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Definitely Tobe Hooper!
Also, the hallway stretch scene was unscripted, not in Spielberg’s shooting script! It falls neatly in Hooper’s surrealizing of space and physics, especially in films like Eggshells and The Funhouse!
Also, the hallway stretch scene was unscripted, not in Spielberg’s shooting script! It falls neatly in Hooper’s surrealizing of space and physics, especially in films like Eggshells and The Funhouse!
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Carries the intensity and looseness with capturing things by chance of a Hooper shot. He wasn’t into fixed blocking, but getting surprising things in the interaction of the characters/their emotions with the happenings and shapes in the frame
June 9, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Carries the intensity and looseness with capturing things by chance of a Hooper shot. He wasn’t into fixed blocking, but getting surprising things in the interaction of the characters/their emotions with the happenings and shapes in the frame
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Tobe Hooper’s!
June 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Tobe Hooper’s!
Time to remind everyone about that time the production designer was interviewed in an article ostensibly about POLTERGEIST and talks about the house Spielberg liked being at “the end of the road.” That is *not* the POLTERGEIST house.
June 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Time to remind everyone about that time the production designer was interviewed in an article ostensibly about POLTERGEIST and talks about the house Spielberg liked being at “the end of the road.” That is *not* the POLTERGEIST house.
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But why aren’t you swayed at all, is the question?
A person who is convinced Hooper directed the whole movie reposted this btw.
May 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
But why aren’t you swayed at all, is the question?
I’d happily shut up about it if everyone involved in the film made a tell-all documentary and released the behind the scenes material they’ve kept locked up for decades!
May 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I’d happily shut up about it if everyone involved in the film made a tell-all documentary and released the behind the scenes material they’ve kept locked up for decades!
The Facts and Knowledge Fan Club, more accurately. 😉
May 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
The Facts and Knowledge Fan Club, more accurately. 😉
Here’s an anecdote from Spielberg saying his episode of Night Gallery starring Godfrey Cambridge was reshot by someone else because he initially shot it as a single-take oner. Something’s not quite right about it. I think maybe the first “nightclub act” scene
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Spielberg’s “Appalling, Irresponsible” Contribution to the Horror Anthology, “Night Gallery”
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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May 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Here’s an anecdote from Spielberg saying his episode of Night Gallery starring Godfrey Cambridge was reshot by someone else because he initially shot it as a single-take oner. Something’s not quite right about it. I think maybe the first “nightclub act” scene
youtu.be/aJjk-I3IuAA?...
youtu.be/aJjk-I3IuAA?...
Cancel Cary Grant!
But no… Spielberg didn’t make the deals for Poltergeist and E.T. at the same time, and certainly wasn’t courting a “competition between the studios.” So dumb, E.T. and Poltergeist as projects were not in conversation together. “I have a ghost movie and an alien movie, which one
But no… Spielberg didn’t make the deals for Poltergeist and E.T. at the same time, and certainly wasn’t courting a “competition between the studios.” So dumb, E.T. and Poltergeist as projects were not in conversation together. “I have a ghost movie and an alien movie, which one
May 13, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Cancel Cary Grant!
But no… Spielberg didn’t make the deals for Poltergeist and E.T. at the same time, and certainly wasn’t courting a “competition between the studios.” So dumb, E.T. and Poltergeist as projects were not in conversation together. “I have a ghost movie and an alien movie, which one
But no… Spielberg didn’t make the deals for Poltergeist and E.T. at the same time, and certainly wasn’t courting a “competition between the studios.” So dumb, E.T. and Poltergeist as projects were not in conversation together. “I have a ghost movie and an alien movie, which one
I’m just saying it now.
May 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I’m just saying it now.
¡Una regla que nunca existió! Spielberg ya estaba desafiando sus contratos con los estudios produciendo Poltergeist mientras hacía E.T. con un estudio diferente, pero Hooper siempre estuvo apegado a dirigir - la idea original fue suya, no de Spielberg!
La autoría de la película fue bastante cuestionada hay quienes afirman que fue dirigida por Spielberg, otros decían que Tobe Hooper la dirigió bajo las instrucciones de éste. En aquella época por ley un director no podía estrenar dos películas en el mismo año con lo cual este rumor se acrecentó.
May 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
¡Una regla que nunca existió! Spielberg ya estaba desafiando sus contratos con los estudios produciendo Poltergeist mientras hacía E.T. con un estudio diferente, pero Hooper siempre estuvo apegado a dirigir - la idea original fue suya, no de Spielberg!
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El dormitorio de los niños de la “cultura pop” - ¡un elemento básico de las películas de Hooper antes del Poltergeist!
May 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
El dormitorio de los niños de la “cultura pop” - ¡un elemento básico de las películas de Hooper antes del Poltergeist!
Spielberg has NEVER - EVER - structured a scene like this. #TobeHooper #Poltergeist
May 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Spielberg has NEVER - EVER - structured a scene like this. #TobeHooper #Poltergeist
‘These are the same scene fight me’:
#TobeHooper #StevenSpielberg #Poltergeist
youtu.be/I1v-c1si9M8?...
#TobeHooper #StevenSpielberg #Poltergeist
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these are the same scene, fight me
YouTube video by DECAL Facilitators
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May 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
‘These are the same scene fight me’:
#TobeHooper #StevenSpielberg #Poltergeist
youtu.be/I1v-c1si9M8?...
#TobeHooper #StevenSpielberg #Poltergeist
youtu.be/I1v-c1si9M8?...