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Information
- Year
- 1988
- Runtime
- 98 min.
- Director
- Gary Sherman
- Genres
- Thriller, Horror
- Rating *
- 4.6
- Votes *
- 13,746
- Checks
- 1,026
- Favs
- 15
- Dislikes
- 56
- Favs/checks
- 1.5% (1:68)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:4
Top comments
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CinemaDump
After the mediocre results of Poltergeist II: The Other Side, I don't think anyone needed or even wanted Poltergeist III. While it's nice having Heather O'Rourke come back (she looks a little off however) as well as Zelda Rubinstein, there's little to get excited about.
Special effects are actually quite good, but there's absolutely no scare factor in Poltergeist III. I ended up laughing most of the time at failed attempts and while it's already been noted, the amount of times Carol-Anne is called by name is positively agonizing.
There's a clear downgrade also in the music department without Jerry Goldsmith providing the score.
Poltergeist III is just a tired and soulless mess that only gets worse as it goes on. 7 years 6 months ago -
DisneyStitch
The completely skippable 3rd film in a tired series. The practical camera effects were a fantastic highlight in what is a boring, plodding attempt at what is supposed to be horror? The script work is all over the place and as with the second movie it struggles to make sense of any sort of supernatural explanations or phenomena. Even the characters are bland and somewhat annoying but none more so than Dr. Seaton. The man works at a kind of real-world version of Dr. Xavier's school for gifted youngsters and is a firm skeptic in anything Carol-Anne can do. Simultaneously, he believes that she can induce mass hypnosis on a whim which would be supernatural power in of itself while also refusing to believe anything she says or does. Super annoying. 1 year ago -
nicolaskrizan
very weak, not in the book
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