Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) is sent to live with her Uncle Bruce and Aunt Patricia (Tom Skerritt and Nancy Allen) in Chicago so that she can attend a special school for gifted children. There, Dr. Seaton (Richard Fire) puts the young girl under hypnosis to try and deal with her emotional problems, but in doing so he releases restless spirit Kane (Nathan Davis), who needs Carol Anne to lead him into the light.
Poltergeist III is a bad film: the crappy plot continues the downwards slide started by Poltergeist II, the talents of Skerrit and the lovely Nancy Allen are completely wasted, and the whole thing looks cheap and nasty, with risible special effects. To make matters worse, helium-voiced dwarf Zelda Rubinstein returns as psychic Tangina Barrons.
But more than anything, Poltergeist III is a sad film, it's young star Heather O'Rourke clearly very unwell, her angelic face swollen by the steroids given to her for a wrongly diagnosed and ultimately fatal bowel disorder. Poltergeist III may be badly written, poorly executed trash, but Heather's tragic illness makes the film far more difficult to endure.
Poltergeist III is a bad film: the crappy plot continues the downwards slide started by Poltergeist II, the talents of Skerrit and the lovely Nancy Allen are completely wasted, and the whole thing looks cheap and nasty, with risible special effects. To make matters worse, helium-voiced dwarf Zelda Rubinstein returns as psychic Tangina Barrons.
But more than anything, Poltergeist III is a sad film, it's young star Heather O'Rourke clearly very unwell, her angelic face swollen by the steroids given to her for a wrongly diagnosed and ultimately fatal bowel disorder. Poltergeist III may be badly written, poorly executed trash, but Heather's tragic illness makes the film far more difficult to endure.