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- 1988
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 38 m
- 1988
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 38 m
Summary Carol Anne is staying with her aunt in a high-rise building, where the supernatural forces haunting her make their return.
Written By: Gary Sherman, Brian Taggert, Steve Feke
- 1988
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 38 m
- 1988
- PG-13
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 38 m
Poltergeist III
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5.4
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Summary Carol Anne is staying with her aunt in a high-rise building, where the supernatural forces haunting her make their return.
Written By: Gary Sherman, Brian Taggert, Steve Feke
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Poltergeist III is another sequel that seems to exist for no better reason than justifying its title and number.
Poltergeist III suffers from bad casting and from the actors' having been encouraged to behave as if sampling an exciting new toothpaste; everyone smiles unreasonably, except when screaming.
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Based on 16 User Ratings
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44% Positive
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At its best, Poltergeist III recalls that surreal mix of DIY ingenuity and narrative ineptitude that mark some of Lucio Fulci’s lesser efforts. At its worst, well, it’s just another soulless, hacky-tacky horror sequel.
Gary Sherman, the film's cowriter and director, has set up a showcase for scary effects, and some of them are rather nice, in a grisly sort of way. It's clear that Sherman knows how to engineer this sort of thing. What's also clear is that without some semblance of an actual movie around them, these pyrotechnics really start to get on your nerves.
A low-budget sequel which tries, and fails, to make a virtue out of adversity by substituting cheap mechanical effects for the expensive light and magic of Parts I and II.
Director Gary Sherman, a special effects maven who also co-wrote the movie, soon gives in to heavy-handed cliche.
The second sequel to the hit 1982 haunted-house extravaganza is an erratic affair, containing some promising ideas and clever effects that, unfortunately, are haphazardly presented in a narrative so perfunctory as to be almost nonexistent.
Awards
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Nomination
