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Poltergeist III [DVD] [1988]
	Director: Gary A. Sherman Actors: Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein Studio: MGM Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £3.43 as of 8/9/2010 01:35 BST details You Save: £9.56 (74%) New (17) Used (6) Collectible (1) from £2.40 Seller: Amazon.co.uk Rating: 7 reviews Sales Rank: 6121 Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), German (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), German (Dubbed), Italian (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 93 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5050070028492 ASIN: B000A6C28M Theatrical Release Date: 1988 Release Date: October 17, 2005 Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Add to Wishlist


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next » FANTASTIC!!!!! August 8, 2010 Raz152 The Poltergeist series is amazing and this 3rd installment doesnt let the series down at all!!!! great November 27, 2009 Mr. Spj Currie (lincoln uk) 0 out of 3 found this review helpful this dvd is good, and it come in post quickly, we not had chance to watch it, but hope to do soon. if you get chance buy it as its a horror classic. Awful, but with some mitigation. July 22, 2009 Mr Ghostface (United Kingdom) First of all, I will say that Poltergeist III is a pretty awful movie. There are reasons why it's so bad, but most of these were true well before production started. Jobeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson declined the movie, so their characters were quickly, and very superficially, reworked as Carol Ann's aunt and uncle. Lara Flynn Boyle was to replace the long-dead Dominique Dunne who played 'Dana', the eldest daughter, and is simply renamed 'Donna'. Okay. Then there is the problem of two of Poltergeist II's best actors, Will Sampson (Taylor) and Julien Beck (Kane) also dying before production began. These things alone should have been enough to put this picture to rest. But no, they had to wring a few more bucks out of poor little Heather O'Rourke being chased by confused spirits. So, what do we end up with? A film with a totally impotent villain, for one thing. Nate Davis is not nearly as effective as Julien Beck was, nor could anyone have been that they could afford. We also end up with lots of interesting but ultimately cheesy mirror FX. Gone, probably through budgetary constraints, are all the wonderful animated spirits and demons of the first two films, and instead we have half a dozen mirror tricks and far too many unconvincing frozen building effects. Although I seem to remember the director Gary Sherman actually saying the effects of the first two movies were cheesy and he wanted to avoid them! As for the ending, which a lot of people seem to be confused by, it's probably best to remember that this film had to be finished without Heather O'Rourke, who died before the reshoots of the final scenes were complete. Many of the scenes had to be completed with doubles, which accounts for a large amount of the incoherence in the film. The ending, unfortunately, was the hardest hit. Heather isn't actually seen for most of the last 30 minutes of the film, and when the concluding battle with Kane is resolved, Tom Skerrit emerges carrying a double. We never see Heather's face again after the point where she disappears in the film. Nowadays, of course, CGI would allow them to achieve a greater recovery, as they did to a certain extent with The Crow in 1994, but, alas, Poltergeist III is what it is. Despite all this, the film still suffers from a lousy script, some terrible performances (most notably Kip Wentz and Richard Fire's dreadful shrink) and completely uninspired directing from Sherman. And as much as it misses the participation of so many cast and crew from the first two movies, it also lacks Jerry Goldsmith's wonderful score. Without that to keep the tone of the soundtrack consistent, this film never had a chance. Third time is not a charm... it's an embarrassment! January 18, 2009 Dingoes Ate My Baby (London, England) Poltergeist is a classic in its own right. Poltergeist II was inferior to Poltergeist but was still fairly good and entertaining with some pretty expensive special effects (for the time) by ILM (Industrial Light & Magic), It had a new fantastic music score by Jerry Goldsmith who worked on the original and was overall a worthy follow-up when considering the hugely successful film it had to stand up against. For all the flaws Poltergeist II possessed it was better than a continuation to a concept originally written as a standalone piece had any right to be. Poltergeist III is where we hit "abysmal" territory. For starters, the budget was so low they had to let music composer Jerry Goldsmith go because they could not afford his magic touch (provided on the first two films) in this one. Instead in his place came Joe Renzetti, whose score is so bad (it literally sounds like a cat being strangled on a cheap 1980s synthesizer) he should have won the Razzie award for worse score and rightly so faded into oblivion after the release of this film. He was not allowed to use any of Goldsmith's themes from the previously established films "thank goodness!" They were however allowed to use his source material which they used in the Poltergeist III trailer so that they could con Goldsmith fans into thinking his score was in it. Then we get to the special effects, which are incredibly cheap on-set camera trick type effects (no ILM for state of the art visual effects this time) and the absolutely appalling script which is utterly laughable and largely consists of characters names being called out. How such carelessly made, cheaply produced and destined for straight to video garbage was actually given a theatrical release I'll never know. We now also have the lame stand-in for the late Julian Beck who producers convinced could match his performance only instead he just provided this film with even more of a reason for the viewer to turn it off and go and watch the previous two films instead. In the previous sequel Kane was scary and believable. In this film he is just an annoying, bumbling buffoon who would have been better suited to a Saturday morning cartoon. He does nothing more than yell out the same lines "all the time" and with very weak delivery. In Poltergeist II Kane does not even mention Carol Anne's name. That just shows you how well written he was in the first sequel. As far as I am concerned this nonsense is nothing more than a dreadful "made-for-TV movie" based on Poltergeist. There is no Poltergeist trilogy. Rest in peace Heather July 13, 2008 Peter J. Hodgson (UK) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful Heather O' Rourke's final film and it could have been special had it not been for the occasionally dire acting and dialogue. The man who plays Henry Kane is not the same moist ugly dude from the second film and there is nothing creepy other than the fact they have tried to make him look creepy by sticking plastercene on his face. Some FX are simple but very spooky the scene where Carol Anne is being pulled into the puddle is impressive. And some mirror scenes are well done too however this remains the weakest link but deserves credit as Heather O'Rourke was a great little actress and delivered a truly charming and sweet performance once again. Showing reviews 1-5 of 7 1 2 Next »

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