Poltergeist isn’t about ghosts — we scare ourselves silly to be less scared
My oldest (adult) child sent this message today: I’ve been watching American Horror Story and it’s actually mostly sad. Like once you get past the creepy veneer, the episodes are like: And honestly yeah those are some very American problems. And that got me thinking… Quite lot of horror is exactly that, as it turns out. And so on, and on. Case study: Poltergeist I only realized recently that the original Poltergeist is a story…
