Where the hell is that cat? Shia LaBeouf, Rachel Weisz and Keanu Reeves in Constantine.

Buffy’s expertise was slaying, but when your school sits on top of a Hellmouth, all kinds of spirit-destroying happens, including an exorcism where Buffy rids Sunnydale High of a former student’s ghost who keeps reenacting the bloody end of his ill-fated affair with his teacher by possessing current students, teachers and even the janitor. But Buffy’s first season premiered the same year as Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners and presaged supernatural superheroes such as Blade as well as signaling the triumphant return of the real deal in 2005 with Constantine and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. What happened to exorcists in the late 80s and 90s? The Poltergeist and Exorcist franchises continued, alongside possession comedies: Ghostbusters, Repossession, Beetlejuice. All she needs to save Carol Anne are tennis balls, red ribbon, handkerchiefs, rope, a bathtub and some help from Carol Anne’s mom. The paranormal investigators trying to make sense of the house’s strange phenomena are out of their depth, but tiny clairvoyant and “house cleaner” Tangina Barrons (Zelda Rubinstein) knows what to do. This isn’t a Pet Sematary deal, though – here be restless ghosts and the beast himself who holds their daughter Carol Anne captive. Horror director Tobe Hooper’s and Steven Spielberg’s film deals with dread in American idyllic suburbia, where an unlucky family learns the hard way that their perfect home is built on a cemetery. Tangina Dream: Zelda Rubinstein in Poltergeist.

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