Uwaga, pułapki na dzieci! Topografia nawiedzonego domu w Duchu Stevena Spielberga i Tobe’a Hoopera
Beware the Traps for Children! The Topography of the Haunted House in Poltergeist by Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper

Summary/Abstract: The article offers an analysis of Poltergeist (1982) by Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper. The author retraces the topographic model of the film Freelings’ house. The building, its separate rooms, and domestic devices become the ‘open cuboids’ through which the demonic forces enter the family’s estate. The presence of human protagonists in the haunted house manifests itself in heterogenous ways, and is divided mostly according to generational and functional criteria. In the author’s reading of the film, the spaces of the living room and interiors of the children’s bedroom function as a senseful representation of parental frustrations and children’s fascinations and anxieties. The analysis is accompanied by contextual references to the horror cinema of the 1980s and to other cultural texts using similar motifs and plots.

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