i don't remember if or how it scared me as a kid. though the idea of ghosts in your house is scary when you are awake at night so i'm sure for some people it does the job. i do remember being scared of the two little girls in the shining and even the fake ghost kid in three men and a baby after having to go to bed. my niece at 13ish, a few or more years ago, said she wasn't scared of poltergeist after viewing it. the poltergeist sequel seems to be the scarier one with reverend kane being so creepy. ghostbusters definitely lifted some ideas from this film and was even possibly influenced by it. i recognized some fx or ideas even leaking over into evil dead 2, though i could be wrong. poltergeist itself, to me, is more of a sitcom starring a family you love but without the laugh track, having a very special haunted halloween episode, it's very fun.
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