Poltergeist is a pretty good movie.
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My father worked in the housing industry and shallow foundations could be due to a number of factors - the soil being too rocky/hard, groundwater concerns, local/state environmental regulations. In those instances, you just dug a shallow foundation, filled it with rebar, made sure your plumbing, electrical connections and anchor points for the walls/studs were laid out and poured concrete over it. They were/are called 'slab' foundations.
If you look closely in the background when Craig T. Nelson and James Karen are on the hill overlooking the development, there's a cul-de-sac with several 'slab' foundations visible. Skip to the two-minute mark if you want to see it.
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Thank you for the proper knowledge. At least now we can scratch one unbelievable thing off the list.
...some have argued that last point.
100% this. I'd have my butt in a motel and be paying a moving company whatever they wanted to pack up and ship everything for me.
On a side note, I don't buy that whole bit about the land for a moment. There's no way no one found a body or a such when that land was being redeveloped, I bet if anything had been found it was brushed under the rug or they'd risk all those dollars.
I have always assumed that that is what happened.
That's when the haunting began. Maybe as long as the dead were undisturbed, they didn't care about the houses above them.
I watched Stir Crazy recently. I think I first saw it about thirty-five years ago, and have seen it maybe about ten times?
It never once occurred to me before now that both Freeling parents are in the film. JoBeth working to get them out of jail, and Craig T. as an a-hole screw.
Sure, they don't share any scenes together but that's not a great excuse for me never noticing.
It never once occurred to me before now that both Freeling parents are in the film. JoBeth working to get them out of jail, and Craig T. as an a-hole screw.
Sure, they don't share any scenes together but that's not a great excuse for me never noticing.
I was wondering that too. But I would think that they would need the permission of any surviving family members to sign off on exhuming the bodies, plus any paperwork needed by the local and/or state government to move the bodies. The cost of having a ceremony to re-bury the bodies would all have to be paid for by the developers. Doubtful on this last part, but dealing with human remains might need some safety equipment. It's possible thate they might have found no living relatives, or relatives so far removed that they didn't mind the bodies being moved. Then all they had to do was move the tomb stones and not worry about families. Possible but, I would think, improbable.
Then the developers would have to pay the contractors to keep shut about only moving tomb stones.
All that might have been better in the nit picking thread. Oh well.
There's also the problem that wooden caskets and human remains disintegrate over time. It would be hard to handle a body (harder still to do so respectfully) when both it and the housing are coming apart.
A metal casket should be no problem. But it didn't look like those were in common use at that particular cemetery.
A metal casket should be no problem. But it didn't look like those were in common use at that particular cemetery.
What? Did you guys do a nitpicking thread about this movie? Where?
No worriers I will find it later.
