Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist is one of the greatest horror movies of the ’80s. And that’s saying a lot, as that’s a stacked decade for horror. Written and produced by Steven Spielberg, Poltergeist tells ...

We mentioned at the opening of this article that Pennywise the Clown may have been more responsible for the current rash of coulrophobia than any other clown on this list. But those of us who grew up ...

A book about Poltergeist, the 1982 haunted house movie to end all haunted house movies, could take as many shapes as its titular spectral force. A haunted clown, a possessed tree—an academic ...