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Poltergeist III

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Psychically attuned youngster Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) is sent to live in Chicago with her Uncle Bruce (Tom Skerritt) and Aunt Pat (Nancy Allen). But that doesn't mean that she's escaped the apparitions that have haunted her in the past. When she starts experiencing terrifying visions, her school psychologist believes that they're figments of her imagination. But this becomes hard to believe when ghostly foes start inhabiting the mirrors in her relatives' high-rise apartment.
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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins The last act is a mere collection of chases and spooky encounters and nightmarish near-death scenarios, a few of which are intriguing, but do little to expand upon Carol Anne's plight. Rated: 3/10 Aug 25, 2024 Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy The picture devolves into a standard light and magic show. Rated: 2/4 Mar 21, 2023 Full Review Terry Mesnard Scarred for Life "From a practical effects [perspective] ... there's a lot of really cool camera trickery...and then you have the movie. I was just left with so many questions." Rated: 2/5 Jan 27, 2021 Full Review Ángel Fernández-Santos El Pais (Spain) There's nothing here aside from a pure and simple cinematic emptiness. [Full Review in Spanish] Mar 25, 2020 Full Review David Keyes Cinemaphile.org Among the well-known of legendary bad movies, Poltergeist III is a sequel with more scope and perspective than most. Rated: 2.5/4 Jun 4, 2015 Full Review Eric Henderson House Next Door At its worst, well, it's just another soulless, hacky-tacky horror sequel. Jun 7, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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BRENDEN J Poltergeist 3 was not a great horror film at all. I thought the plot and the story were all over the place and did not make any sense at all, and the characters were not interesting or likable except for Carol Anne play by Heather O'Rourke and Tangina play by Zelda Rubinstein which they are really great actors in their other movies and also in Poltergeist (1982) and Poltergeist 2 The Other Side. But when they are acting in this film, you can definitely see that they are trying their best to make their acting really good and also try to make the movie itself good by their performance even though that the script and the story was not that good they both really tried to make their acting for those two characters really stand out so, I will give them credit for that. Also, Reverend Kane was not that scary in this movie. Like he was in the last film, they simply just made him not scary but instead goofy like very goofy, which just made his character in this movie suck. Plus, they never explain how he came back because he died in the last film because the father that was in the first and second Poltergeist movies that in the second film, the father killed him by stabbing him with a giant sword while they were in the other side to save their daughter Carol Anne. So, I just don't know why they never explain how he came back in this movie, which was just so awkward and wired. But yeah, for Poltergeist 3 is a 1 out of 5 stars because it was just a bad final installment for the trilogy, which was just very sad to see it as because I really wanted to like this because I love the first one and I really enjoyed the second one which the second one was not as great as the original one but it was still really enjoyable. But this one was not like that at all . Everything in this movie just fails completely flat, but it was nice to see Heather O'Rourke back as Carol Anne for one final time before she sadly passed away, so it was nice to see her again in this movie. Plus, I like it how, at the end, credits they put "this film is dedicated to Heather O'Rourke 1975-1988." So I thought that was very nice that they did that to pay tribute to one of the best child actor of all time. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/13/25 Full Review Abigail L i hated this movie from the first day that i saw it the first film is and always will be the only good movie in the poltergeist universe. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/18/25 Full Review Mike D It's horrible. The acting feels D-. What a terrible production. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/27/25 Full Review Farah R Although it’s the most watchable of the three, the last installment in the Poltergeist series is more of the same. It’s elevated only by the advancement of special effects technology. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/01/25 Full Review Blu B The same idea of I &II just in a skyscraper with everything done worse. What's crazy is how this just goes off a freakin cliff in the final 30-40 minutes or so when it focuses on just the two parents. Stuff just happens with no clear rhyme or reason and it becomes incoherent at a certain point. The editing & pacing are terrible with everything else subpar. It's actually shot well at certain points and Heather is the one good thing in this. We think it's going to be focused on the two daughters but than it becomes about the parents which leads nowhere. The special effects aren't bad here but they just straight make no sense. The mirrors are nowhere near as interesting as the setting of the first one. There is a ton of farfetched, plot convienent moments, and incoherent ones especially in the second half. It never is able to ramp up the pacing/tension in the slightest. At least II sort of did that. This is just dull the entire way through. The music also is super boring and becomes sort of ear grating. Skip This. Worst one the franchise and part of a franchise that shouldn't exist besides the first. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 09/06/24 Full Review thiago s Filme muito ruim,e já perdeu todo o sentido, esse filme eles não deveriam existir. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/01/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Psychically attuned youngster Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) is sent to live in Chicago with her Uncle Bruce (Tom Skerritt) and Aunt Pat (Nancy Allen). But that doesn't mean that she's escaped the apparitions that have haunted her in the past. When she starts experiencing terrifying visions, her school psychologist believes that they're figments of her imagination. But this becomes hard to believe when ghostly foes start inhabiting the mirrors in her relatives' high-rise apartment.
Director
Gary Sherman
Producer
Barry Bernardi
Screenwriter
Gary Sherman, Brian Taggert
Production Co
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 16, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA)
$13.1M
Runtime
1h 36m
Sound Mix
Surround
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