• Director(s)

    Tobe Hooper

  • Production Year

    1982

  • Release date

    21/10/2022

  • Genre(s)

    Horror

  • Approx. running minutes

    114m

  • Cast

    Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight

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Poltergeist

strong supernatural threat, gory images

A family finds their house is haunted but what first appear to be friendly spirits turn out to be far more sinister. Frequent jump scares and scary horror images are more suitable for older teenagers.…

A family finds their house is haunted but what first appear to be friendly spirits turn out to be far more sinister. Frequent jump scares and scary horror images are more suitable for older teenagers.

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violence

threat and horror

language

drugs

injury detail

alcohol and tobacco

sex

discrimination

  • Director(s)

    Tobe Hooper

  • Production Year

    1982

  • Release date

    21/10/2022

  • Genre(s)

    Horror

  • Approx. running minutes

    114m

  • Cast

    Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight

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strong supernatural threat, gory images
Classified Date:
13/10/2022
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Park Circus Limited
violence
Supernatural entities commit acts of violence against people, including a possessed doll attempting to strangle a child.
threat and horror
Supernatural entities attack people, pulling and dragging them around. A clown doll appears to come to life and attacks a child, pulling him under a bed. Children scream as they are about to be sucked into a supernatural portal.
language
There is use of mild bad language, including 'shit', 'bastard' and 'son-of-a-bitch'.
drugs
Adult characters find a marijuana joint in a drawer and decide to smoke it.
injury detail
A man experiences a hallucination in which he rips flesh from his own face. A woman falls into a hole filled with water in which several skeletons are present.
alcohol and tobacco
Adults drink while watching sports.
There is mild bad language ('shit', 'son of a bitch', 'bastard'), accompanied by other milder terms ('Jesus', 'Christ', 'hell', 'God', 'damn' and 'jerk'). A group of men catcall a teenage girl, who responds using rude gestures. A woman jokingly recalls an innocent man being suspected of preying on her when she, as a young girl, fell asleep in the back of a stranger's car. There are brief scenes of parents preparing and smoking a marijuana joint, accompanied by other verbal references to smoking drugs.
Classified Date:
29/07/1982
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
U.I.P. (UK)
Threat and horror
There are frequent scenes of threat in which the family - including children - encounter supernatural occurrences, and occasional moments of strong horror including a man's face disintegrating and a woman falling into a muddy pool containing decomposing bodies and skeletal remains.
There is occasional use of mild bad language, including 'shit' and 'ass'.
Contains strong horror
Classified Date:
26/07/1995
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Warner Home Video Ltd
Threat and horror
There are frequent scenes of threat in which the family - including children - encounter supernatural occurrences, and occasional moments of strong horror including a man's face disintegrating and a woman falling into a muddy pool containing decomposing bodies and skeletal remains.
There is occasional use of mild bad language, including 'shit' and 'ass'.
Classified Date:
02/02/1987
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
MGM Home Video
Threat and horror
There are frequent scenes of threat in which the family - including children - encounter supernatural occurrences, and occasional moments of strong horror including a man's face disintegrating and a woman falling into a muddy pool containing decomposing bodies and skeletal remains.
There is occasional use of mild bad language, including 'shit' and 'ass'.
Classified Date:
14/07/1995
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Warner Home Video Ltd
Classified Date:
16/03/1988
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
MGM/UA Video Ltd

  • Classified date

    13/10/2022

  • Language

    English