Rating: 
Summary: Alittle disapointed
Review: The first movie was so good, and now this. Poltergeist 2 was officialy one of the WORST films I have ever seen. I nearly cried, not because it was scary, but because I had officialy wasted 2 hours of my life.Now, Poltergeist 3 I LOVED. If they had made this teh second one, it would have been pefect. Oh, and it's so sad (and kinda creepy) how Heather died right before the films release.
Rating: 
Summary: Julian Beck as KANE is SCARY!
Review: While both of these movies largely ...this disc is worth owning for JULIAN BECK as KANE. BECK was known as a stage performer and I believe POLTERGEIST II is his only film. Hands down his performance is the most effective thing about POLTERGEIST II. The film is unfortunately covered in a thick veneer of family unity and ridiculous sentimentality. Wading through the cutesiness of POLTERGEIST II is a chore.
There is also no reason given for the dissapearance of the DANA, the older sister from POLTERGEIST. Of course the actress was tragically murdered by her boyfriend after POLTERGEIST was released so that is why she is not in it.
H.R. GIGER designed a lot of interesting images for POLTERGEIST II that were not used or were abandoned...or simply executed poorly. The family swimming around on a blue screen on the "OTHER SIDE" is also fairly nauseating. Especially when the white robed ethereal grandmother (GERALDINE FITZGERALD) brings little CAROL ANNE back from THE LIGHT. UGH.
Truly, JULIAN BECK'S frightening performance as KANE is the highlight of this film.
POLTERGEIST III features another actor in the role of KANE and was also HEATHER O'ROURKE'S last film. She died from complications from an intestinal blockage that she'd aparantly had since birth. She was on a lot of medication during the shooting of POLTERGEIST III and that is why her face looks so puffy during a lot of it.
POLTERGEIST III does feature some truly amazing mirror effects, but it is overall a really bad and confusing film that simply never ties up all of its loose ends. It is also the only film in the series where a character actually ends up dead due to those bad ghosts.
POLTERGEIST III was shot without any optical effects and it really shows. Considering the first two films were very FX heavy...the budget constraints are very apparant in this one.
ZELDA RUBINSTEIN is the best thing about this final POLTERGEIST movie. She really camps it up. The ending is one of the more stupid wrap-ups in all of film history.
"KANE! I CAN LEAD YOU INTO THE LIGHT!"
Whatever.
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