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- Poltergeist has several terrifying scenes peppered throughout its 114-minute runtime, but the most memorable of which is the sequence in which Marty (Martin Casella) hallucinates peeling his face off in the mirror (fun fact: the hands peeling off his face belong to none other than Steven Spielberg himself).
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Recently I was able to speak via email with Martin Casella, who played the role of the paranormal investigator "Marty." He offered many valuable insights regarding the filming process and his work on "Poltergeist."
Martin played the paranormal researcher who saw the maggots on the chicken and who started peeling off his face. In case you are new to this Podcast, he interviews people who had small parts in iconic films.
Apr 14, 2015 · One of the most iconic scenes of horror movie history features Casella’s character, Marty. His story adds to a deeper appreciation of the scene: “When we did the scene with my face falling off, it was a dummy. I started the scene off, picking at my face, but the rest was played out with the dummy.
- Stephen King Was Initially Asked to Write The script.
- The Freelings’ Neighborhood Was Based on Spielberg’s own.
- It’S Similar to An Episode of The Twilight Zone.
- Drew Barrymore Auditioned to Play Carol Anne.
- The Actor Who Played Marty Had Quit Acting to Become A Teacher.
- Steven Spielberg Was A Hands-On Producer. Literally.
- The Chair-Stacking Scene Was Done in One take.
- The Tree Scene Was Shot backwards.
- The Idea For The Tree Grabbing Robbie Came from A Childhood Memory.
- Tangina only Worked For Six days.
Steven Spielberg wrote an 11-page treatment in 1980 titled Night Time, and wanted the emerging face of horror to write the script off of his idea. King and Spielberg had a pleasant lunch, but King’s publisher allegedly asked for too much money.
Though the Cuesta Verde community in which the Freelings live is based in Southern California, Spielberg admitted that he “really based the neighborhood on suburban Scottsdale, Arizona, where I grew up. It is the lifestyle of suburban America; two-car garages, tract homes and cul-de-sacs, the U-Totem down the street, and an elementary school within...
Richard Matheson wrote the Twilight Zone episode “Little Girl Lost,” which was about a little girl who goes into another dimension through her bedroom wall. Matheson has said Poltergeist was inspired by the episode, but he never received any credit for it.
Spielberg thought she would be better suited for E.T., which happened to come out one week after Poltergeist.
Martin Casella had quit acting to become a teacher, but auditioned to play the paranormal investigator Marty anyway. Spielberg, who was acquainted with Casella from previous movies, liked to pretend Casella was a valet and would always toss him his car keys whenever he saw him. When Casella won the part in Poltergeist, he was informed by Spielberg—...
In the scene where Marty ripped off his own face, Spielberg ripped off the lifelike bust. Casella insisted that Spielberg do it because they only had the one bust and he was worried he would make a mistake and ruin the shot.
When Diane (JoBeth Williams) turned away from the table, crew members quickly replaced the kitchen chairs with an already-assembled cluster of chairs.
Robbie (Oliver Robins) was actually spit out, not swallowed up, by the tree. Reversing the shot made the final result look much better.
Michael Grais ended up co-writing the screenplay with Spielberg and Mark Victor. His inspiration for the tree scene came from a memory of being home alone one stormy night, sitting on the stairs on the second floor of his family home. When lightning struck the tree in his yard, a big branch crashed through the window right near him.
Zelda Rubinstein was screen-tested four times before she landed the role of Tangina, the medium. She admitted the role changed her life, even though she was only on set for six days of the 12-week shoot. After filming, Rubinstein didn't hear a word from anyone involved with the movie for a year, leading her to think it might never see the light of ...
Poltergeist (1982) - For the scene where Marty hallucinates tearing his own face off, the hands we see belong to Steven Spielberg. The set-up was so expensive that actor Martin Casella decided to lend Spielberg his watch and ring so he could perform it.
Another bit of trivia: the make-up people spent three hours rigging me so that blood would seep out of my skin and then chunks of my face would fall off. But because it was being a shot in a mirror, they rigged the wrong side of my face.
