General Discussion from HeatherORourke.net http://heatherorourke.net/forum/index.php Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:11:02 +0000 60 http://heatherorourke.net/forum/topic/7100-does-this-make-me-a-poor-heather-orourke-fan/
I'm a teenager in high school, going into senior year, and for the past few years I've been trying to write my own dark fantasy/horror novel. The two main characters of my story are a 16 year old boy and a girl who's his 11 year old cousin.

My story deals with angels, demons, heaven, h*ll, god and other supernatural themes. I had decided early on in my writing that I wanted one of the main protagonists to be a girl, young and innocent, a symbol of purity, flung into terrible situations and struggling to survive. I sought a tad bit of inspirations from Alice in Lewis Carrol's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" which, as you all know, has a young girl as its main heroine.

I was also inspired by the character of "Newt" in the sci/fi action film by James Cameron, "Aliens". In my story, the two cousins are supposed to form a close, almost sibling relationship, with the boy acting as the protector and guardian of his younger cousin.

I looked into other films dealing with the supernatural as a sort of 'research' for my story. I was aware to a degree of a film by Stephen Speilberg called "Poltergeist" (I think the only time I had ever heard about it was when it was briefly mentioned on the sitcom "Fullhouse".) What really drew my attention to it was when I discovered that H.R.Giger, the artists who had designed the monsters in Aliens, has also done the design for The Beast in the original Poltergeist.

So I decided to include Poltergeist in my list of DVD's to pick up from a Blockbluster. I also decided to pick up the DVD containing both Poltergeist II: The Other Side and Poltergeist III for the heck of it. I watched the entire trilogy that night.

I enjoyed the first one and (as silly as they are) the two sequals as well. The character of Carol Anne captivated me (as I would later discover has thousands of others). Doing some research on the net, I learned about the Poltergeist curse and the tragic death of the actress who has played Carol Anne, Heather O'Rourke.

Truthfully, this news really did depress me. I couldn't get Heather out of my head. She'd been gone for nearly 20 years by the time I had discovered who she was and what had happened to her. I almost get a haunting feeling when I remember watching the Poltergeist films and how I was completely oblivious to this girls fate.

I did all the research I could on Heather, learning about her life, her acting career and who she was as a person. I don't know how to describe it, but she had some sort of strange charm about her.


Anyway... the next thing I knew... My main character was an outgoing, sweet young girl with blonde hair and blue eyes.

So the truth is Heather O'Rourke serves as a basis to one of the main characters of my story. I'm terribly, dreadfully sorry if this was wrong for me to do. I truthfully do love and respect Heather for all she did and who she was and I would hate for this to offend any other Heather O'Rourke fans or appear as disrespectful to her memory. But honestly Heather did serve as a big inspiration for my writing.

What do you think about all this? For the record I didn't do all this research about Heather because of my story, I honestly did care and want to know who she was... The writing part came later. I sort of imagine it as if my book were a movie and my character was another role she could have played. If any of you feel that this idea I had was in poor taste, I will scrap it without question.]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:11:02 +0000 http://heatherorourke.net/forum/topic/7100-does-this-make-me-a-poor-heather-orourke-fan/ http://heatherorourke.net/forum/topic/7094-was-heather-religious/ Does anyone know if Heather practiced any sort of religion? Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:43:55 +0000 http://heatherorourke.net/forum/topic/7094-was-heather-religious/ http://heatherorourke.net/forum/topic/7068-heather-orourke-height-and-weight/
I'm offthechangejoe and I'm happy to announce that I've recently joined this site! I'm a fan of Heather O'Rourke and her work (obviously) and I hope to discuss, chat and get to know a lot of you others users here!

My questions rather random, but I'm trying to learn everything there is to know about Heather.

So, does anybody have a clue as to what her height and weight was prior to her illness? I read on IMDB that she was about 4'8'' although I'm not sure what age she was and that she weighed less than 50 pounds at the time of her death.

What would you say (or estimate) her height and weight was prior to her getting sick, I suppose around age 10 or 11?]]> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:37:02 +0000 http://heatherorourke.net/forum/topic/7068-heather-orourke-height-and-weight/ http://heatherorourke.net/forum/topic/6923-i-looked-a-lot-like-her-when-i-was-younger-pic/ http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs110.snc4/35872_1225103105354_1162290569_31124062_3401456_n.jpg

This is a picture of me in 1st grade. What do you think?]]> Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:24:32 +0000 http://heatherorourke.net/forum/topic/6923-i-looked-a-lot-like-her-when-i-was-younger-pic/ http://heatherorourke.net/forum/topic/6880-what-do-you-wish-heather-couldve-lived-to-see/ However, as truly tragic as her death was and still is, I'm very surprised and impressed by how revelvant she still is to this day to so many, and how missed such a beautiful, angelic and talented person she is to the world over.

--p.s. looking forward to hearing what you guys n gals would've liked to see Heather experience had her life not been cut so tragically short. This is my first post/topic started on this site, so thanks for reading!]]> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 06:16:52 +0000 http://heatherorourke.net/forum/topic/6880-what-do-you-wish-heather-couldve-lived-to-see/ http://heatherorourke.net/forum/topic/6859-photos-of-heather/ Here are some photos i like to share of Heather, I know that we have got all of these photos already in the gallery..... but she's just a little princess I just had to post them and make a topic about it...

little angel Heather enjoy!!!!

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I think she had pierced earrings like shown in her very last known photos taken in December 29th 1987. She was a beautiful little girl i wish she was alive but she is a child in heaven forever looking down at her loved ones like her mother Kathleen and sister Tammy (: rip little angel

I wish she was alive she would have been a very pretty teen and adult.



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But she only competed in one child pageant, so I think it was a modeling shot which she did lots of child modeling. Any information on this would be great!! very little info on this photo.

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