20 Things You Didn't Know About Your Favourite Horror Movies

Before there was Paranormal Activity 15 and Insidious 12, there was Poltergeist - the classic horror movie set in the suburbs starring unknown actors who could have been your neighbors. But this movie was so much more than a collection of timeless scares and crawling meat; it was a model example of practical magic. Though, maybe that isn't always a good thing.

For a long time this film has been considered cursed (thanks to the fact that many of the people associated with the film died very prematurely). It didn't help matters none when one of the film's stars, JoBeth Williams, would go on admit that the skeletons that attacked her in one of the film's most pivotal scenes were, in fact, real.

Craig Reardon, a special effects artist who worked on the film, said at the time that it was cheaper to purchase real skeletons than plastic ones, as the plastic ones involved labor in making them. Really? How expensive could a plastic skeleton be? Why would they cut costs in such an eerie way? Too creepy.