We're all familiar with those clever movie-related commercials
DirecTV runs on television, the ones that take a famous scene from a
film like "Aliens" or "Back to the Future" and turn the characters into
shills for satellite television. (Okay, they sound less clever when I
describe them that way.)
A few weeks ago, DirecTV started airing
a new commercial, one that riffs on the 1982 horror classic
"Poltergeist." But here's the part that's really creepy: Heather O'Rourke
-- the girl who played Carol Anne in the movie and, sadly, died at the
age of 12 due to a heart attack brought on by septic shock -- appears
in the ad. Watch below and you'll see what I mean.
Even
though it's supposed to look like a scene from the 26-year-old movie,
the spot subtly implies that O'Rourke is still with us. Which is a long
way of saying: This commercial gives me a case of the heebie jeebs. And
I'm not the only one. Bloggers and others have been whipping up a
frothy brew of Internet outrage over this clip during the past few
weeks.
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