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Arts Council sponsors show A sale and show of arts and crafts by local artists will be a daily (noon to 5 p.m.) feaâ€" ture of Waterloo Days in the Waterloo Park this Saturday and Sunâ€" day. depends both on the individual viewer‘s apâ€" preciation for this parâ€" ticular genre of movie and on the persuasiveâ€" ness of Spielberg‘s filmâ€"making skills. â€" and, one â€"suspects, directorially owing much to Spielberg‘s presence during filmâ€" ing â€" has no other pretensions than to make people laugh and to frighten them. How well it succeeds in both these areas For the first time, this event is being sponsored by the Waâ€" terloo Regional Arts Council. Cathy Wilâ€" liams, the council‘s acting executive direcâ€" tor, says that in future years "we are looking to hopefully developing it into a juried show." Doubtlessly, filmâ€" maker Steven Spielâ€" berg would agree, since most of the movâ€" ies associated with his name seem designed only with the first and last of those reasons in Certainly Polterâ€" geist, coâ€"written and produced by.Spielberg were "only three reaâ€" sons to make a movie â€" to make peaple laugh, to make them cry, or to frighten screen shocker The Exorcist, once was quoted as saying there MOVIE REVIEW By Victor Stanton “Wlllhm Friedkin, Most of the people Williams says about Spielberg‘s Poltergeist: in a class all by itself â€" 30 artists will be taking part this year, with works exhibited includâ€" ing "oils, pastels, phoâ€" tography, wood carvâ€" ings and stained The council, which represents nearly 200 area arts and cultural organizations and indiâ€" viduals, will have its own table in the park, with cultural informaâ€" tion in the form of *‘*brochures and adverâ€" tising material." *‘We‘ve even got a lady who‘s going to be selling jams and jelâ€" lies." who will be attracted to this movie probably would be satisfied just being scared. The humor â€" and the picâ€" ture is actually quite richly endowed with this quality â€" is a At the core of Polterâ€" geist is a story blendâ€" ing elements from The Exorcist, The Changelâ€" ing and The Shining (and probably a host of other supernaturalâ€" themed films that don‘t come as readily to mind), while the visual tone of the picture freâ€" quently emulates Spielâ€" berg‘s Close Enâ€" counters Of The Third Kind. Initially, a convineâ€" ing aura of realism is established, and the characters we meet are both familiar and likeable. The earliest omens of things unnatâ€" ural at work also are handled with believabiâ€" lity and effective draâ€" matic buildup. It is in this portion of the movie, too, that the humorous content is at its brightest. The plot involves a tergeist much wider appeal. o In a welcome change from the majority of contemporary movies which aim to frighten, Poltergeist contains little explicit gore. However, the one scene in which human flesh is bloodily savaged is toâ€" tally unnecessary in any dramatic sense, and seems to be more a concession to Hooper‘s Here, the basic story just gets sillier and sillier, as Spielberg and the picture‘s creâ€" dited director Tobe Hooper indulge in a plethora of special efâ€" fects which clearly beâ€" comes the reason the movie was made in the first place. Granted, they are technically impressive, and for a lot of viewers that seems to be suffiâ€" cient. But, for others, it‘s rather like driving up a mountain to show off a car‘s cornering and braking capability instead of to take in the scenery. strikingly eordinary upperâ€"middleâ€"class family whose suburban home, as it becomes increasingly obvious, houses some demonic spirits intent on wreakâ€" ing vengeance for past desecration to their physical remains. Indeed, it has been acknowledged that "a full oneâ€"third" of the production‘s multiâ€" millionâ€"dollar budget was spent on the creâ€" ation and execution of those special effects. One can‘t help feelâ€" ing that there was a slightly better story that could have been told here, one which then could have been marvellously compleâ€" mented by the special effects. Instead, the special effects in Polâ€" tergeist seem to have been allowed to distort the story. One can‘t deny, howâ€" ever, that despite its plotting and characterâ€" ization defects, in comâ€" parison to the general run of current horror films, Poltergeist does stand somewhat in a class of its own. None of the performâ€" ers in Poltergeist are likely to attract audiâ€" ences on their own, but, headed by Jobeth Wilâ€" liams and Craig T. Nelâ€" son, most do provide satisfying characterâ€" izations until they are upstaged by the special effects. An Oscar winâ€" ner (for her supporting role in 1976‘s Network), Beatrice Straight is rather colorliess as the head of a team of parapsychologists, but dwarf actress Zelda Rubinstein brightens up the latter portic i of the picture as a combiâ€" nation ‘medium and exâ€" orcist. Texas Chainsaw Masâ€" sacre.) filmâ€"making heritage than Spielberg‘s. (Hooper, after all, did come to prominence as the coâ€"writer, director gMMiMfiififimfifig hC . _:.pik‘ 4 80 T yaik‘" w BE B e h mt PB jnsk 2e w it at h mt 117 B 4 30 Water Street North, Kitchener 36 Church Street West, Elmira broker is important. . . . Because you may be liable for severe loss if equarel equately covered. an So choosing It‘s Time You Think About INSURANCE PROTECTION She‘ll give you "all the choice in the world." 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