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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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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 Jonathan O Poltergeist 3 is absolutely the worst trilogy ever there's no magic and scares from Poltergeist and Poltergeist 2 and not all the actors have returned but only two actors returns and this is Heather's last acting until her death. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 09/01/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Gary Sherman

Director

Tom Skerritt

Bruce Gardner

Nancy Allen

Patricia Wilson-Gardner

Heather O'Rourke

Carol Anne Freeling

Zelda Rubinstein

Tangina Barrons

Lara Flynn Boyle

Donna Gardner

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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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