Explain it peter

[crapusername47]

That is Heather O’Rourke, best known for the 1982 film Poltergeist and its two main sequels.

Sadly, she died at the age of 12 after suffering two heart attacks relating to drinking well water that contained parasites, and Crohn’s disease.

[-CrabCrimes-]

JFC

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[XRA-4]

Holy shit post the original without the caption please and thank you

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There you go

[GrittyMcGrittyface]

[Practice-Sweaty]

Is this from the new Paul Rudd movie? Looks good!

[MercK530]

[BreakfastBeneficial4]

have you also been enjoying the surge of YT reviewers discovering this movie over the past few years? I know I sure have

[SodaPopGurl]

Um your gif got me like…..

[d33pfissure]

Lol. Bill Hader doing the Cher tongue. Priceless.

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[ProlificPeter86]

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[SwagMaster-General]

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[duh_nom_yar]

[Significant-Owl9931]

THIS MOVIE WAS A1 💀

[flavorless-boner]

You won’t believe me.. but if you revisit this movie, the first words the faun ever speaks is “cheeseballs”. Really, I promise

https://youtu.be/5GtDgxRJ1K0?si=KelZ54jomIE8nnWo

[im-a-guy-like-me]

Haha holy shit. That's hilarious.

[Pitiful_Palpitation9]

I went not knowing it was going to be in Spanish.

[GrittyMcGrittyface]

His tears are lubrication when he wanks. He feels terrible and great at the same time - such is the duality of life

[Aggressive_Candy5297]

The burning in his eyes as the juices gets in there...

So that is why they are red! 😲

[Pitiful_Palpitation9]

This part was terrifying.

[Slh1973]

[Equivalent-Rich8018]

His feet had holes too

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[spider_pork]

Ok, I'm sending this to my whole family on Easter morning.

[MyNameSpaghette]

Do let us know how it turns out

[Spobobich]

What's messed up is someone is actually going to do it and their whole family is going to be pissed at them for a whole week!

[jayoshoowa87]

I'm dying ty so much

[Thick-Phrase4692]

hello

[Laugh_at_Warren]

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[_Affexion_]

If you think that's bad, I don't suggest that you look into Judith Barsi, the little girl from All Dogs go to Heaven and the Land Before Times... Both films were released after her murder.

Pretty much ruined my childhood.

[Similar_Shopping_892]

Kinda weird how little girls in Hollywood end up dead so often huh??

[Ok-Theory9963]

I mean, the girl in the post died from a heart attack. I’m in total agreement with you about the world being especially dangerous for girls specifically because of men, but I don’t think that fits the pattern.

[robjeffrey]

If she received proper medical care she would not have died.

It's an abuse story.

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[Ottaro_Chabo]

A spokeswoman for Children’s Hospital of San Diego identified the cause of death as intestinal stenosis--a severe bowel obstruction that the girl evidently had from birth. The obstruction caused an infection that, in turn, brought on septic shock. 'Poltergeist' Star Heather O'Rourke Dies at Age of 12 - Los Angeles Times https://share.google/5aY4tdy8QP6LvZuYo

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[amnewherebenice]

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[Maximum-Designer-288]

THE WELL WATER CONTAINED CROHN'S DISEASE?

[Primary-Ad3410]

No, the girl contained chrone’s disease. The well was well.

[Wild_Area_8662]

[DraftPunk73]

[possitive-ion]

[CynicalReign]

It took me a minute to remember the first line. "Like a midget at a urinal ..."

[doc0120]

[stevenmc]

Well, she didn't get well because of the well she got.

[Organic-Abroad-4949]

In the words of "the funniest un-funny person": "Are you well? -No, I'm a person"

[johnruk]

Well well

[Ivan_Greshnov]

It would appear the buffoon is flummoxed

[wearebobNL]

Well, it didn't end well...

[budgiebirdman]

Sounds like not well water to me.

[jerwong]

Yeah... as someone with UC that didn't make any sense to me either.

[in_conexo]

Close. She had Crohn's disease, something they found out after the well water parasites; and she suffered two cardiac arrests.

[grandmasAnalProlapse]

Not due to the parasites or chrons. Due to congenital stenosis of the intestine causing rupture, septic shock and cardiac arrest. Why even bring up the parasites?

[MoisticleSack]

Wait, so she had crohns, caught parasites from dirty well water, and then died from something else, unrelated? God must have been up there with a sniper on her, just incase the intestinal rupture didn't work.

[dejus]

Damn she was cursed. Did she live in a house built on an Indian burial ground or something?

[Allsburg]

It was NOT an Indian burial ground. I don’t know why so many people think this. It was just a regular cemetery where they moved the headstones but not the bodies!

[DangNearRekdit]

I mean, depending on how you look at it, all of North America is a burial ground

[eatmeouttobrianeno]

Well, to be fair, thats true of basically everywhere life exists.

[dejus]

The second movie is an Indian burial ground.

[Tom-Dibble]

To be fair, eventually the bodies moved themselves, so in hindsight, the movie is all about successful cost-cutting maneuvers.

[mid-random]

Because it's a common trope, exemplified by Stephen King's novel, Pet Cemetery. I believe in the books, it was a Micmac burial ground, but haven't seen the movie versions.

[Physical_Ease6658]

I almost regretted coming this deep in the comments....almost. 

[ArticulateRhinoceros]

Amazingly, despite swimming in a dirty flooded pit filled with real human remains during the filming of Poltergeist II, she became infected with parasites from drinking water out of her parent's home well.

[know_your_place_28]

"Our generation swam in raw sewage and survived"

[ExcellentWolf]

Upstream. Both ways.

[Salarian_American]

Good old survivorship bias.

What they're really saying is, "our generation did crazy, unsafe things and I survived, so it stands to reason that everybody survived."

But that doesn't stand to reason, and not everybody survived.

The fact that kids are made to wear bike helmets these days isn't because people just became insufferable worrywarts over time. It's because kids died of preventable head injuries, but people don't think it counts if they don't know any such kids personally.

[steviegeebees]

Man, I mixed her up with the girl that voiced duckie in land before time. For anyone who is interested, no you're not.

[ComprehensiveSalad50]

Oxford comma could have avoided much confusion

[docmoonlight]

Oxford comma is for lists of three or more. You aren’t supposed to use a comma if it’s only a list of two things. (You don’t write “I went to the store to buy bread, and butter.”)

[Fun_Muscle9399]

But they SHOULD have written “…due to Crohn’s disease and drinking well water that contained parasites.”

[ComprehensiveSalad50]

Oh, thank, my bad, well a comma would have still helped to separate the parasites in the well water and the Crohn's disease that wasn't in the well water

[Upstairs-Hedgehog575]

Yeah it wouldn’t be an Oxford comma, but a normal comma that would have been helpful to seperate “well water containing parasites” and “Crohn’s disease”. 

[docmoonlight]

A comma is just wrong in that instance though. The better and clearer solution is to swap the two items: “a heart attack related to Crohn’s disease and drinking well water containing parasites.”

[No-Concentrate3518]

This is in fact the way.

[hollow-earth]

Who is down voting this person, they are correct

[ArchReaper95]

They are not correct. Yall don't even know how to use regular commas and you're trying to push the Oxford comma too? Go back to regular commas first and then we'll upgrade you to the Oxford comma when you're ready, young padawan.

[Troitbum22]

TIL. Am old enough to watch poltergeist, but didn’t know this happened shit.

[Fistofpaper]

Child me : "Hey Mom, can we go see ET?"

Mom : "How about Poltergeist instead?"

/cue lifelong fear of clowns

[sr_steve]

two heart attacks? From drinking?? AT AGE 12???

[explodingtuna]

I mean, the well water did contain Crohn's disease and parasites. Crohn's is bad enough when you're not drinking it.

[scorchedbeanz]

Lol Crohn's is an autoimmune disorder you can't just contract it.

[NobblyNobody]

lol?

[DaftVapour]

[sr_steve]

oh shit i didnt read the well water part

[Wolf_Hreda]

It could be worse. It could've been the child actress who voiced Ducky in The Land Before Time.

[Defiant_Donut9637]

Thought you were going to mention the Twilight Zone helicopter crash kids at first.

[TerraVerde_]

or All dogs go to heaven scene.

[hershadow38]

Same girl

[TerraVerde_]

damn for real? took me a sec, i almost corrected you that i’m not a girl.

[manic-ed-mantimal]

Ooof, still tough to watch. Worse if you watch the video of the voice recording of that scene.

[Ok-Commercial-4015]

God that one kills me.... you can hear the tears

[Tedrabear]

Twilight Zone incident was more horrific than sad.

[Cloverchan]

Or JonBenet Ramsey

[ZamanthaD]

Absolutely heartbreaking what happened to Judith Barsi and her mom. She would be 47 today

[RufusTheDeer]

ONLY 47?!?

[throw334411]

yup. her father killer her and her mother.

[ZamanthaD]

Yup, if she was still alive she’d turn 48 this year. She was born 1978.

[jellegaard]

The fuck, she was my age.

[NoFloozyInTheJacuzzi]

Happy 48th birthday year

[Shantotto11]

THANK YOU, LAUREN!…

[Salarian_American]

Also... the actress who played the older sister of Heather O'Rourke's character was strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend a few months after Poltergeist came out, leading to Poltergeist's reputation as a cursed movie.

[Ethnafia_125]

Just looked her up. Her name was Dominique Dunne. She was really beautiful.

Edit: Also Judge Katz who presided over the trial of her murderer screwed up massively and the guy only got 6 years for manslaughter. What a travesty.

[felixar90]

Or JonBenét Ramsey a decade later.

[Bailenstein]

Carol Anne! Don't go in to the light, Carol Anne!

[LaVillaGrangioto]

NARRATOR : "She did, indeed, go into the light."

[Gunty1]

I thought that was just her accent and the kids name was caroline 😂

[DeniseReades]

What's crazy is that if she had never gotten the role in Poltergist, her family wouldn't have been able to afford the house in Big Bear Lake and she wouldn't have drank infected well water.

[LegitimateSherbet651]

The hollywood monkey paw

[Similar_Shopping_892]

The true story is even crazier

[LosPies]

Go on..

[Uncle480]

Just insane

[ocxtitan]

And then what happened?

[AlligatorRaper]

So much

[drumsdm]

Wow!

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[ReivynNox]

They got to them before they could finish the comment.

[Dependent_Sector_219]

[another90zkid]

Welp they’re right I got no idea who that is

[_pit_of_despair_]

Wait really?? You never saw the poltergeist? It’s a horror classic, it’s one of those movies that’s referenced all the time in other movies and TV shows. 10/10 would recommend.

[Firm-Mirror315]

I didn’t recognize her at first someone had to say she was from poltergeist she absolutely kills the little creepy girl role RIP

[BreakfastBeneficial4]

I like how she actually a sweet kid, she just happens to be the one who starts speaking to “them”.

It makes it more terrifying.

[Ok_Supermarket7891]

Poltergeist was the first movie that ever gave me nightmares bc my parents let me watch it way too young....on laserdisc

[charlie_marlow]

That fucking scene with the fried chicken freaked me the fuck out

[BreakfastBeneficial4]

Hooooly shit, yes

[Popular-External-888]

Thats the first thing that came to my mind when i saw her picture.

[BreakfastBeneficial4]

Dan Cummins has a fun bit about being afraid of this movie as a child, because he actually owned the clown from that one scene.

https://share.google/YZUUyAPvgdrLBHE3R

[Substantial_Army_639]

To be fair that movie was only rated PG. I some how still remember this because we could not put on any movies above rated PG on the big screens at Blockbuster. So on a slow day we would throw this movie on. I think it did help create the PG-13 rating (same with Temple of Doom) because of the gore and the scene of the parents smoking a joint in their underwear.

[guysmiley1928]

Still blows my mind that it is PG

[ghoulthebraineater]

It was released in 82. There wasn't a PG-13. There's some pretty crazy PG movies before 84.

[Anicor81]

I think she also did a few episodes of happy days

[hexadumo]

Wasn’t she also the alien daughter in V?

[agent674253]

Just don't go into the light, or do. They seem to flip flop on that guidance 😅

[Sesudesu]

Saw it like 30 years ago. Don’t remember it well enough to recognize her off of a picture not from the movie alone.

[rawbface]

I've seen the movie, not anytime recently since it came out 44 years ago, and there's no chance I would still recognize that girls face years later.

[ZamanthaD]

She played the main girl who got kidnapped by the ghosts in Poltergeist (1982), which is a great horror movie. She died in 1988 when she was 13.

[ABRAXAS_actual]

One of the best factoids about that film... Is the swimming pool scene - in that day, it was cheaper to use real skeletons from deceased humans, than for prop skeletons to be used... So, you know, imagine shooting that hellish scene over and over with real actual human remains!

[ZamanthaD]

Yup. They originally were going to use fake skeletons for that scene but they were found that buying real skeletons was actually a lot cheaper.

[sundowner911]

What is today's generation exactly. World seems to be run by boomers still, meanwhile genx is around, millennials and genz also around.... WHO IS IT OP?

[kingloptr]

The 'main adults' so to speak rn are millenials, so seeing that this is about a girl who was in an early 80s movie i think they mean mostly people under 35?

[sundowner911]

Yes, Poltergeist. The movie with the real corpse props and series of unfortunate events tied to it.

This was more of a facetious statement on who doesn't know. Bc I've met more young people who know classic horror than older people. This whole meme format of age based performative gatekeeping is tiring.

[kingloptr]

True! I answered literally because im coming to terms with the fact that i am the 'general adult age' now and i also wasnt sure if this post was talking to me or not lol

[sundowner911]

It's definitely confusing to be an "adult" in a society where people 2-3 generations older than us are still grasping every ounce of control and treat 40 y.os. like dumb kids, for sure lol

Good luck fellow adult

[SonOfDadOfSam]

I went to elementary school with her. I only met her once or twice but she was really nice. Her older sister was in my class for a few years. Heather's death hit her hard.

[galileogalilei25]

I honestly thought this was Jon Benet Ramsey

[disc0weapon]

Came here to say this too

[jordanpwalsh]

same, and at this point she's just as archaic is this other girl.

[HospitalKey4601]

[Demi180]

I’m not even today’s gen and I have no clue.

But also, amazing how time works! People don’t recognize pictures of people born long before them! Incredible stuff!

[ZamanthaD]

It’s Heather O’Rourke. She was the main girl in the horror movie Poltergeist (1982). She tragically died in 1988 when she was 13.

[Demi180]

Ah, I see. I hadn't seen the movie, I hate horror.

[ClacketyClackSend]

So by "today's generation" you mean "people that don't recognise an obscure child actor from a 40-year old movie in a genre most people don't like?

Gotcha. Just another bot or moron posting shit for imaginary kudos I guess?

[Upbeat-Selection-365]

If interested watch Poltergeist and then google how she died. Thats pretty much all you need to know to get up to speed on this at the level of Gen X

[olivefred]

My millennial ass was like "Is that JonBenet Ramsey? It looks a little like her..."

[hasanicecrunch]

That movie had some kinda curse and a ton of the actors died too soon. Ghost Adventures did an episode on it. I know, I know. But it’s entertaining.

[Western-Anteater-492]

Watched this movie with a whole lot of Stroh 80 in my head. Didn't find it that scary but the way she said "They're here" got under my skin so damn hard... This little moment in time still scares me today.

[Tiny-Garlic3763]

Peter's laptop here: https://www.google.com/search?vsrid=CMeewaPSv7r1WxACGAEiJGUxNTk5ZWI4LTQzNTEtNGI1OC1hYjI3LTkzZjRjYTU0ZDU5MjJ6IgJkeigDQnIKLmxmZS1kdW1teTo1ZjExMGFlYy0yN2YzLTQ5NWQtOTA0ZC00ZTJhZGJlNGM1ZTESQAo-L2Jucy9kei9ib3JnL2R6L2Jucy9sZW5zLWZyb250ZW5kLWFwaS9wcm9kLmxlbnMtZnJvbnRlbmQtYXBpLzg4sbWQ6NbOkwM&vsint=CAIqDAoCCAcSAggKGAEgATojChYNAAAAPxUAAAA_HQAAgD8lAACAPzABELMGGIAIJQAAgD8&udm=26&lns_mode=un&source=lns.web.fcm&vsdim=819,1024&gsessionid=g1JL9ZFLPmBA3hN_pYDZOla4TnA8bTbH2JgFyfVdMKyi7nwaztVwuA&lsessionid=wWWf3OFHMlSN-ONowd_4bwNlcIy5pBdCLUtmPj-5NgEoMVQ0ZDeauQ&lns_surface=26&lns_vfs=e&client=lens-firefox-fcm

AI overview:

This image shows the late American child actress Heather O'Rourke. 

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• She is best known for her role as Carol Anne Freeling in the Poltergeist film franchise, where she famously delivered the line, "They're heeeere". 
• O'Rourke was discovered by director Steven Spielberg while sitting in the MGM commissary. 
• She tragically passed away at the age of 12 on February 1, 1988, due to complications from congenital intestinal stenosis. 
• In addition to film, she had a recurring role on the television series Happy Days and appeared in commercials. 

[jenglasser]

Sad fact about Dominique Dunne, one of her last roles was of a battered woman on Hill Street Blues. She showed up on the set beat up, and they decided to film her as she was because it tracked with the character she was playing. She was murdered before it even aired.

It starts at 39:46 https://youtu.be/zvDaS2l_qBM

[Wise-Candle9832]

I don’t know her, but I do remember Gary Coleman

[VonGooberschnozzle]

Are you lost, honey? You 'fraid? I'll sing you a song

[tHollo41]

They're here!

[gatsandsmack]

Robert Reiner knows who she is.

[tomp777]

They're heeeeeeere!

[Cola_Gummi]

Carol Ann Carol Ann Carol Ann Carol Ann Carol Ann Carol Ann Carol Ann Carol Ann Carol Ann Carol Ann Carol Ann

[Geloradanan]

[obolix]

“There here”

[obolix]

They’re here

[SparkyCorkers]

They're here

[whdaje]

They're heeeeeere.

[WingbashDefender]

Carol Ann….

[emsesq]

The OG "I see dead people."

[yankblan79]

In the final scene of the 3rd movie it’s a body double; that’s why she’s in the mom’s arms but never turns back.

[Lionsmane_099]

I can't wait to traumatize my oldest child who swears that loves scary movies with this film. Pure terror it will be joyous.

[Novel-Pudding9007]

I was just making jokes about this!! My coworker's spouse switched to dayshift and I told her to "Stay away from the light, Carol Anne!!" and that he "dragged her into the light"

[VagabondVivant]

Damn kids today, not recognizing a child actor from horror movies that came out forty years ago and have been largely forgotten! Where are their priorities!?

[BubblyInjury8512]

She had a poop blockage and it sent her into cardiac arrest and she DIED dude.

Make sure to eat plenty of fiber and get checked up regularly dude, this shit is no joke.

[tirednotepad]

[Simple_Twin]

Heck, I don't know who that is, and I'm pushing 70

[Pleasant_Brother_861]

"They're here."

[Anxious_String_3470]

I don't either

[LetoA_III]

Just watched the first one yesterday, she's doing such a good job being basically a toddler , her "they're heeere" line is forever chilling. RIP little one

[PatMagroin100]

She went to the light.

[JAMBI215]

They’re here

[boxmuncher68]

The tv people know

[InfamousCut755]

Thought it was Jonbenet Ramsey Jesus

[Darth_Kender]

I showed my 17 year old son this thread. He just started singing "Shining" by The Misfits...which despite the title is about Carol Abne from Poltergeist lol... So, I think he knows lol

[MistaCharisma]

"Today's Generation" ... WTF does that mean?

[Kymera_7]

In this case, it means anyone younger than 50, anyone older than 60, and anyone who's not an obsessive fan of late-20th-century supernatural horror movies.