Remembering Poltergeist News Today

In this personal essay, Matt Konopka looks at 'Poltergeist' and how the first two films examine the deep effects of toxic masculinity.

On this day in horror history, Julian Beck was born in Washington Heights, New York in 1925. He is best known for his role as Kane, the malevolent preacher in the 1986 movie Poltergeist II: The Other Side. Beck was diagnosed with stomach cancer in late 1983. He died two years later on September 14, 1985, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, aged 60. After his death, producers brought in voice actor Corey Burton during post-production to loop some of his lines for Poltergeist II: The Oth...