What’s Aged the Worst?
Catcalling; TV snow; effects; haunting terminology; family naïveté; sequels; remote; edit; remake; pan-and-scan
In the discussion (10)
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- Television snow and stations going off air are less familiar in the cable era.
- Construction workers catcalling the teenage daughter, and her mother laughing, have aged badly.
- The face-melting effects look dated, although that is expected from an older film.
- The distinction between a poltergeist and a haunting is challenged because multiple dead people appear to be haunting the development.
- The family lacks later haunted-house movies as a reference for recognizing the danger.
- The second and third films are disliked or barely remembered.
- Using a remote to change a neighbor’s television no longer feels possible.
- An abrupt edit after the chair-sliding scene is attributed to removing a Pizza Hut joke after the company objected.
- The 2015 remake is rejected as unnecessary.
- Pan-and-scan cable presentations harmed the film’s composition and rewatchability compared with widescreen.