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Show 71 TT TP LLA oiloil o lPoltergei$tscary but not gory ' Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents pre-sents a Steven Spielberg production, a Tobe Hooper film, " Poltergeist," starring Jobeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson and Beatrice Straight, will open at the...... Theatre. The music was composed by Jerry Goldsmith. Matthew F. Leonetti, A.S.C., served as director of photography. The story was written by Steven Spielberg from the screenplay screen-play he wrote with Michael Grais & Mark Victor. Tobe Hooper directed. Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall Mar-shall produced the picture. It is being distributed by MGMUA Entertainment Co. Without pretensions, Spielberg and Marshall hope that Poltergeist" is "a very scary movie"--but they choose to say little else about it "There are no knifings, no murders, and no decapitated heads," said Spielberg. "We do have one scene which appears to be instantly violent and gory, but it turns out to be a quick hallucination." hallucina-tion." He adds, however, that "some of the scariest things in our film happen in broad daylight." The filmmakers earmarked ear-marked a full one-third of the production budget for special effects. At the helm of the massive special effects effort was George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic Operation (ILM). The special effects in "Poltergeist" range from matte paintings--to superim-positions-to state-of-the-art optical innovations. "We are blazing all sorts of new trails." said Spielberg. Even with the large number of special effects, Spielberg wanted to keep within the range of plausibility. plausibi-lity. "There are things in this movie that motion picture audiences have never seen before." ILM's visuals are but a part of "Poltergeist's elaborate ela-borate special effects. Wind, rain, smoke, moving furniture,, furni-ture,, and a whole assortment of practical, mechanical effects had to work in front of the cameras during production. produc-tion. Los Angeles may have its earthquakes, but hurricanes are unheard of in this city, so MGM's Soundstage 12 was used to create a very effective one. Mike Wood, who spearheaded spear-headed the day-to-day operation opera-tion of the special effects and his crew seldom had a moment's rest throughout the shooting schedule. |
