Where were you in '82? What we saw at the movies that year
In the summer of 1982, one movie imagined with eerie accuracy the film medium's most persistent and successful competitor - television - as a supernatural force fighting for control of American hearts and minds. This was 35 years ago, long before cable explosion and streaming and "Game of Thrones."
The movie was "Poltergeist." You may remember, if you're old enough. "They're heee-re." The little girl, listening to voices in the TV before becoming one of them, awaiting familial rescue.
