Poltergeist

Just saw this movie tonight on Turner Classic Movies. (I would so die without that channel.) It was pretty good, but I have just one question: Why was that family so goddamn stupid?

In the beginning, when the tree is eating their son, the parents run outside to save him. Leaving the little girl all by herself. Of course, this is when she gets sucked into the closet. Why would you leave a little girl alone at a time like that? There is a man-eating tree outside. I guess they were more worried about their son.

After they rescue said son from the Tree of Death, they return to the kids' room to find the little girl missing. (She done got ate by the closet while you were ignoring her, dumbfucks.) So they immediately shift all their attention to their missing daughter, completely neglecting their poor son who is covered in blood, mud, and twigs. He is left to stand in his room, alone, while the rest of the family runs madly through the house looking for Younger Daughter. I guess they were trying to make up for when they ignored her and she got ate by the closet.

Jump forward to the end of the movie. They have rescued Younger Daughter from the red gelatin-filled hell that is her closet. They have packed their things and are prepared to move. They have let their guard down. Of course they have let their guard down, they are a family of idiots. If they were not idiots, they would've got the fuck out of that house when they got their daughter back. But no. Family Dumbshit believes everything is okee-dokee on the home front. But then! (You will be shocked to hear this.) It turns out, the demon thing wasn't really gone! It tries to eat Younger Daughter and the boy. The Mother just barely manages to save them, after her bath.

Meanwhile, the Father, who was away with the guy whose bright idea it was to build on top of some graves (why not?), arrives home to see a tremendous light spewing from an upstairs window of his house. He stands there, in the street, gaping at it for a few moments. He takes a few steps forward. He stops and gawks a little more. Forward. Gawk. Forward. Finally, he sprints to the front door, only to find it blocked by a corpse in a coffin. This is one of the dead guys pissed off about the house on his grave. So these dead guys start popping up everywhere, and instead of trying to save his family, whad does Father do? He runs up to Jerkwad Who Builds Over Graves, grabs his collar, and shouts in his face, "This is your fault!" This was infinitely helpful to his family's plight.

Eventually, they get the hint and get the fuck out of there. Eventually. Overall, it was a good movie. I really liked the medium. She was badass. The stupidity of the family was delightfully frustrating. I gives it a B+.