What is Poltergeist / The Legend of Hell House about?

POLTERGEIST, 1982, Warner Bros., 114 min. Dir. Tobe Hooper. The Freeling family’s normal life is shattered when malevolent forces kidnap 5-year-old Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke), forcing her desperate parents to seek assistance from a team of academic ghost hunters and a wacky psychic dwarf. With Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Dominique Dunne, Beatrice Straight, Zelda Rubenstein. THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE, 1973, 20th Century Fox, 95 min. Dir. John Hough. Four researchers gather at a haunted house and quickly find themselves under siege by malevolent spirits. Roddy McDowall and Pamela Franklin star in this eerie horror film, scripted by Richard Matheson from his novel Hell House.

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What is Poltergeist / The Legend of Hell House about?: POLTERGEIST, 1982, Warner Bros., 114 min. Dir. Tobe Hooper. The Freeling family’s normal life is shattered when malevolent forces kidnap 5-year-old Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke), forcing her desperate parents to seek assistance from a team of academic ghost hunters and a wacky psychic dwarf. With Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Dominique Dunne, Beatrice Straight, Zelda Rubenstein.
THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE, 1973, 20th Century Fox, 95 min. Dir. John Hough. Four researchers gather at a haunted house and quickly find themselves under siege by malevolent spirits. Roddy McDowall and Pamela Franklin star in this eerie horror film, scripted by Richard Matheson from his novel Hell House.