TheNightling
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Something I want to address about the use of real human cadavers in the original Poltergeist movie to save money. That’s it. That’s the real reason. They got a good deal on the real bodies. All other justifications are pretty much spin control when they got a backlash.
It’s such a weird and creepy fact, especially since just six years later Tales from the Crypt would come out with a very realistic and complex skeletal animatronic puppet made, very low-cost, from a Child’s Play Chucky puppet. So the excuse that realistic skeletons were too expensive at the time is a little fishy, especially since there are fake skeletons in House on Haunted Hill, The Raven (1963), several pirate movies, even the Ewoks movie. Ghostbusters (1984), Fright Night (1985) and even Scrooged all had very good skeletal practical effects scenes. Even horror of Dracula (1958). So the excuse that realistic skeletons were too expensive or not realistic looking is one people should stop taking as fact. 1982 was not THAT long ago! And An American Werewolf in London was over a year earlier.
It’s such a weird and creepy fact, especially since just six years later Tales from the Crypt would come out with a very realistic and complex skeletal animatronic puppet made, very low-cost, from a Child’s Play Chucky puppet. So the excuse that realistic skeletons were too expensive at the time is a little fishy, especially since there are fake skeletons in House on Haunted Hill, The Raven (1963), several pirate movies, even the Ewoks movie. Ghostbusters (1984), Fright Night (1985) and even Scrooged all had very good skeletal practical effects scenes. Even horror of Dracula (1958). So the excuse that realistic skeletons were too expensive or not realistic looking is one people should stop taking as fact. 1982 was not THAT long ago! And An American Werewolf in London was over a year earlier.
