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Heather O'Rourke as Carol Anne in POLTERGEIST III Year: 1988 |
There are actually some good things about the maligned POLTERGEIST III including a capable director; a cool, ominous soundtrack; and a decent rudimentary story-line that makes the build-up... Carol Anne now living in a glass-structured Chicago high-rise with her aunt and uncle... work for
and against itself since, as the movie progresses into manic delirium, it's more a letdown than a wasted experience from start to finish...
By the 45-minute "Kong mark" (the same time it took the giant ape to reveal himself), a lot has happened, and it's somewhat interesting. Aunt and Uncle (horror-vets Nancy Allen and Tom Skeritt), who also
work for the building they reside in, are at a downstairs party full of spooky-looking art pieces. Their cute teenage daughter (Lara Flynn Boyle) sneaked herself and her friends into the building's off-grounds swimming pool for a beer party while, in the apartment, the late Heather O'Rourke's Carol Anne is just starting to get
really scared of the impending ghosts... which is where the problem begins...
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Scream queen Nancy Allen and the Star Wars prequel Robots |
Like running across a large field where only the first thirty yards harbor difficult (and interesting) obstacles, POLTERGEIST III goes from intriguing and suspenseful to a redundant and annoying chase scene between the family and the ghosts, led by an ancient, white-haired Reverend Kane...
Which is downright blasphemous for fans of POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE, by having another actor deliberately made-up to resemble the late great Julian Beck, and shouting, "We're Back!" to counter Carol Anne's legendary "We're Here" from the timeless original. But there's another pro to this 80% con of a sequel's sequel as Heather O'Rourke, who died not long after production wrapped, turns in a great performance, having to intensely react to what she remembers as opposed to what's actually happening around her...
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Heather O'Rourke & Richard Kind P3 RATES: **1/2 |
This occurs at a school for gifted children, another initial location with wasted potential that includes a psychiatrist-in-denial played by Richard Kind, wielding a novice style of contrived, atrocious line-delivery that makes bad horror movies fun to bag on...
Intentional or not, Kind's phony-kind Dr. Seaton is the real villain here, and even he's lost in the frenzied shuffle (along with a glorified cameo by the Columbo of ghost whisperers, Zelda Rubinstein's Tangina) where otherwise capable DEAD & BURIED and VICE SQUAD director Gary Sherman is overloaded within an ominous yet glossy-looking corner of purgatory that, with so much going on, he and the cast couldn't possibly paint their way out.
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Lara Flynn Boyle in POLTERGEIST 3 aka POLTERGEIST III |
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Lara Flynn Boyle & Heather O'Rourke in POLTERGEIST 3 aka POLTERGEIST III |
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Lara Flynn Boyle passes three Fake Reverends in POLTERGEIST 3 aka POLTERGEIST III |
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Richard Kind's even-keeled shrink in POLTERGEIST 3 aka POLTERGEIST III |
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A copy/pasted and forced Zelda Rubinstein's Tangina in POLTERGEIST 3 aka POLTERGEIST III |
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Otherwise talented Tom Skerritt's over his head as neo Craig T. Nelson in POLTERGEIST 3 aka POLTERGEIST III |
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Heather O'Rourke with an ET: Extra Terrestrial Speak & Spell tying this with Spielberg, sorta |
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A bathed Lara Flynn Boyle cared for by concerned dad Tom Skerritt in POLTERGEIST III |
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Haven't yet figured who this actress is with all the unestablished credited first names but she's cute, so... |
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