Directed by Tobe Hooper, from a screenplay by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais and Mark Victor, POLTERGEIST opens. Dir. Tobe Hooper. A young family's new suburban tract house becomes the locus of a home invasion by a rapacious horde of demons & ghouls. Sensational compendium of eldridge horrors craftily curated under the imprimatur producer Steven Spielberg. With Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams and Zelda Rubenstein.