Have you ever watched a movie at a young age, where that movie has just stuck with you? Whether it is the best movie of all time or the funniest, or the scariest, it just sticks with you. Poltergeist is one of the movies from my childhood that I KNOW with out a doubt that I should not have been allowed to watch at the impressionable age of 9! After watching that movie I never looked at a fuzzy, static television screen again! Thank goodness for cable. Poltergeist is a scary film classic from the 80′s featuring an all too sweet looking, cherub-faced, blonde, little girl who connects with not so nice ghosts through the static in the television. The spooky tale twists and turns and ends with the family fleeing their imploded family home that was built upon a desecrated cemetery, with the bodies and corpses rotting beneath their home.
Yep, at 9 years old, I never forgot this scary, spooky, movie. And even now when my own little cherub-faced blondie walks up to the big screen arms open wide, I think to myself…”they’re here”!
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Joining me this week to explore the theme of spooky and getting ready for a frightfully fun Halloween is my friend Melissa Deakin | Buffalo New York Family and Childrens Photographer.
And just for fun, I’ve included the film’s poster advertisement from 1982!
. After much consideration she presented me with her old, worn, lovey that she sleeps with each night. When I asked her why she chose her lovey, she simply said because he is “cuddley” and “because his nose is broken”. Funny enough, she wanted to show me her lovey, but she became really shy when I tried to take pictures of her with lovey. I really thinks this speaks to the specialness of her lovey, it is hers, not something she really wants to share. And that is o.k.
