Tag Line : He's found her...
Well, here we go
again! Carol-Anne (played once more by Heather O'Rourke) is now
living with her Aunt Patricia (Nancy Allen) and Uncle Bruce (Tom
Skerrit) whilst she attends a special school to help her with the
psychological trauma she has suffered after the events of part 1
& 2.
Unfortunately, Kane the ghostly old preacher from part 2 (played this time by Nathan Davis) hasn't finished with her yet and so tracks her down to the tower block where she is staying. Yet more predictably wierd stuff starts happening, with the buildings swimming pool icing over, the ventilation system freezing and strange objects appearing in mirrors before Kane finally grabs her, along with her cousin Donna (Lara Flynn Boyle) and her boyfriend Scott (Kipley Wentz).
Tangina Barrons then shows up (Zelda Rubinstein again) along with Carol-Annes Psychologist Dr. Seaton (Richard Fire) and together they try to battle the wierd apparitions that start popping out of mirrors and emerging from strange vortex's.
This is a fairly piss-poor film as far as sequels go. The film does start off looking fairly promising, and there are a few fairly creepy scenes at the beggining whilst they're establishing the characters and plot , but it doesn't take too long for the film to descend into the same old nonsense rehashed from the previous films, where they defeat one ghostly apparition, only to then come up against another one.
In the end they manage to get Carol-Anne and Donna back from the spirit world, after Tangina gets captured and agree's to lead the spirits into the light. But no mention is made of poor old Scott, who appears to get abandoned there with nothing more said about him. If you do insist on seeing this movie, rent it , don't buy!
Overall Marks : 3/10.
Other Information. Alternate tag line, "They're back...again". Director Gary Sherman also directed the seminal zombie pic "Dead & Buried" and may also be remembered for the 1972 film "Death Line", about a canninbalistic retard living in the London underground system and snacking on unwary passengers, which starred Donald Pleasance. Tom Skerritt is best known for his roles in action pics, such as "Top Gun" and Nancy Allen is probably best remembered for her role as officer Anne Lewis in the "Robocop" movies. As mentioned in my review of "Poltergeist", Heater O'Rourke who played Carol-Anne, died of intestinal stenosis in 1988 just prior to the release of this movie. Apparently she had been suffering from flu-like symptoms during filming, but specialists failed to realise the problem until it was too late. She was buried in the same cemetery as Dominique Dunne, who played her teenage sister in part1 and the film was dedicated to her memory. |
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