Poltergeist 1 - Finally returns on DVD!

booker.brianna

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Yeah that's right after it was released here back in 2000 along with 2 and 3 then quickly removed again - it has been re-released as the 25th Anniversery Edition!

HMV (online) and Play.com are both selling it for
 
Well I wouldn't brag about getting part III, it's abysmal. However if you want the decent, although inferior Poltergeist II looking near enough just as good as the 25th Anniversary DVD, I suggest you get the US R1 Double Feature DVD that unfortunately comes with part III also (MGM came to the obvious conclusion that nobody in the US would flock to buy Poltergeist III by itself, so they tacked it on with II), because the picture quality on the R2 disc here in the UK is horrible, a massive step backwarRAB. MGM should be ashamed of themselves, they seriously need to discontinue the old R2 disc and re-release Poltergeist II with the new 2003 transfer done for the R1 disc. The difference is night and day. I'll have some screenshots up shortly.

My Widescreen Collector's Edition VHS has a clearer picture with a much better colour balance. No, I am not joking. I don't know why they bothered using colour at all for the R2 DVD. All you get is an overly saturated mess of red throughout the entire film masking all of the other colours as a result, and poor contrast to name a mere few of its many faults.
 
TBH give it a few years and the HD versions of all 3 should be released, hopefully resolving the problems. I do agree with you though, MGM suck!
 
Bit late with that one.

It came out again a few weeks ago but I wish I hadn't bothered.

I still have the original R2 disc that Amazon and Ebay deny was ever released so I got the Special Edition like a shot.

I was annoyed to find that the extra features are just documentaries on real life ghosts --nothing about the movie at all.

Part 2 and 3 were dire when they came out and they haven't improved with age
 
UK DVD (R2)
PoltergeistIIWidescreenSampleUKDVD.jpg


US DVD (R1)
PoltergeistIIWidescreenSampleUSd-2.jpg
 
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