This Scott is later revealed to be an evil doppelganger, and in the finale of the movie, medium Tangina Zelda Rubinstein brings Kane into the light, freeing the captured Carol Anne, Donna and the rest of the family from the other side. Noticeably absent from the ending, however, is Scott, which has a couple of explanations. Sherman had previously shot another finale for Poltergeist III he was unhappy with, and which tested poorly during screenings. This ending featured the frozen bodies of all the captured characters, including Scott, but Tangina's sacrifice frees them to return from the other side.
This ending also featured Heather O'Rourke and Scott actor Kip Wentz, but before O'Rourke's passing, it was planned for the crew to return and film another ending.
A devastated Sherman reunited the cast and crew to quickly film the somewhat abrupt finale that now ends Poltergeist III , which he's also unhappy with.
The news made Sherman extremely reluctant to continue, though studio pressures overruled his hesitance. Sherman was adamant that it be handled live without any stop-motion. Once the cameras were rolling, the layers were melted away under severe heat blasts. In the end, Poltergeist III proved to be a box office and critical failure.
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A black cloud hangs over the family at the center of the movie, Voices. The children live in blissful ignorance while the adults anxiously await the day their legacy finally comes to light. What they had hoped would skip a generation is now underway to destroy an entire bloodline. Not only is Ga-in a talented fencer and a popular student, she is dating a handsome, young doctor Lee Ki-woo.
What appears to be a bizarre and isolated tragedy is really the start of something bigger. The theory of an embittered sister taking swift revenge is good enough for the police. Like a virus, though, the animosity is contagious. Ga-in witnessed firsthand Jung-sun slashing Jee-sun to shreds in her hospital bed.
It does not take long before Ga-in herself is the target of wanton aggression at the hands of those she trusted. Ga-in falls prey to various and unprovoked attacks by those around her. At first her aggressors are acquaintances at school.
A studious overachiever named Eun-kyung Oh Yeon-seo feels slighted when she is passed over for an opportunity, so she comes after Ga-in with a pair of scissors. A family curse is often metaphorical in storytelling; characters feel fated or burdened by past acts committed by their ancestors. A variety of horror movies adopt this mode of curses, whereas Voices approaches the concept literally.
Ga-in learns the source of her hereditary affliction when she seeks refuge with a long-lost relative Kim Seong-jun along with the above said classmate, Seok-min Park Ki-woong. The sixty person crew took four weeks just to figure out the logistics, and ultimately the tenants never even noticed that the film was shooting there.
Even though Steven, Diane, and Robbie don't appear in the film, they are mentioned by name by several characters most notably by Carol Anne, Pat, and Bruce. Tangina also says that she got her necklace from "a powerful medicine man who walked among the spirits," an obvious reference to Taylor in Poltergeist II: The Other Side Interestingly enough, Carol Anne's sister Dana is once again, never mentioned by name.
This was likely done out of respect for the deceased actress Dominique Dunne. A challenge for the marketing team, who had to compile advertisements shortly after Heather O'Rourke passed away, was to make sure that it didn't look like the filmmakers and MGM were trying to exploit her death. Although there was an internet rumor that Jerry Goldsmith was originally contracted to score this film but quit due to budget cuts and then supposedly used his "unused" P3 score later in The Haunting , this rumor is untrue.
Goldsmith was unhappy with the results of Poltergeist II: The Other Side and did not have an interest in doing the third film. Also, it's clear that MGM did not want to spend the extra money they knew it would cost to hire Goldsmith, considering that "Poltergeist III" was being made on a lower budget than the last film.
Ultimately, "Poltergeist III" was scored by Joe Renzetti , who director Gary Sherman recommended, having worked with Renzetti previously on his other low-budget movies. Heather O'Rourke had grown tired of filming sequels to the first film, and was finding it difficult to keep herself motivated for the third film. She said that had a fourth Poltergeist film been greenlit, it would have been her last in the franchise.
Such a thing would never happen due to her untimely death. Producer David E. Kelley has quite a connection to this film. The character of Skerritt's daughter was played by Holly Marie Combs on the show. That character is reminiscent in character and physicality to Lara Flynn Boyle 's character Donna Gardner in this film who portrayed another famous Donna, on Twin Peaks, a show that heavily influenced Fences. Nancy Allen was originally cast to portray the town's mayor in Season 2 of "Picket Fences" but had to drop out due to her contractual obligations to appear in RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3 That role was then filled by Leigh Taylor-Young.
In a interview, comedian and actor Thomas Lennon claimed that he auditioned for a role in this film. Steve Feke, screenwriter of horror classic When a Stranger Calls , was brought in to do a few uncredited rewrites to the script during pre-production. In the March Fairfield Research, Inc. While Carol Anne is a main character throughout the films, she isn't given much to do in terms of dramatic moments and scenes.
Sherman wrote several pages of script giving her actual dialogue, character interactions, and development, to which O'Rourke approved of. Sadly, most of these scenes could not be filmed when the budget was unexpectedly slashed.
Is this interesting? As a result of over a dozen pages worth of script not being able to be filmed due to budget cuts, Gary Sherman's initial cut of the film that he submitted to MGM was a mere 80 minutes long. Deciding that the film was too short to be theatrically released, Sherman was forced by the studio to reinsert several moments and scenes that he otherwise would have cut, just to pad out the runtime.
The Light that Dr. Lesh spoke about in Poltergeist that appeared at the climax of Poltergeist II: The Other Side and that Tangina mentions at the end of this film, may derive from war stories that pilots claimed to have seen in combat or what people have claimed to have witnessed during Near-Death Experiences. Spoilers The trivia items below may give away important plot points. In the original ending that was scrapped after Heather O'Rourke 's tragic death, when Patricia jumps through the glass pane into the apartment, she finds Carol Anne, Donna, Scott, Bruce and Tangina frozen and dying.
She then also becomes imprisoned in ice and gets attacked by Kane and her evil mirror reflection who want the necklace. Patricia tries to repel them and declares unconditional love for her family, but trips over frozen Tangina and falls to the floor. Suddenly, Tangina frees her arm from the ice and grabs the necklace.
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