An earlier draft of the film was called "Nighttime" or "It's Nighttime" and had substantial differences from the final film, including an elder teenage son named Kerry, the haunting being the result of the neighborhood being built over the the secret burial place of a group of pioneers who were massacred by a savage Native American tribe who worshiped an evil fire god, the Freelings becoming ostracized and later persecuted by the community, the haunting spreading out to the rest of the neighborhood, Steve being possessed before having sex with Diane, Diane secretly resenting Carol Anne because she was an accidental pregnancy, Carol Anne and Dana both being possessed by spirits (with Carol Anne repeating the original title over and over and Dana reliving a pioneer's horrific fate of being burned alive) and the death of Carol Anne. Writers Mark Victor and Michael Grais insisted that one member of the family had to die and when Steven Spielberg relented and asked which one, they chose Carol Anne, much to Spielberg's surprise and chagrin. The original ending of the film had Carol Anne be possessed by the ghosts and abandoned by her family and left to die as the house burns down, leading to the entire neighborhood becoming a literal ghost town. Spielberg was uncomfortable with how dark and bleak the script became and insisted it be toned down. Several of the ideas the writers had would later be reused for Poltergeist II - L'altra dimensione (1986).

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