Poltergeist II

This is a great sequel to the original Poltergeist.

yes it is terrible!same shit new day

This movie could have been good. I wish it had never been made at all, but I guess Hollywood being the money-making adventure that it is, it was inevitable that a sequel to the box office smash Poltergeist would be made. Too bad, because the original Poltergeist is far and away one of the best horror films ever made. Spectacular acting, special effects, a script that delivers chills, thrills, laughs, and wonder, it is high on my list of all time favorties. Then we have the sequels. Hmm, where to begin with what's wrong with them? The first is the lack of continuity. In the first film, we learn that the resons for the haunting of the Freeling's home is that their house, in fact their entire neighborhood, is built on a cemetary. Steve Freeling, the patriarch of the household and stellar real estate agent, was responsible for selling the overwhelming majority of homes in that neighborhood. Poor Steve had no idea that the land he was selling used to be the final resting spot of many ... Read more

Also known as Poltergeist 2: The Other Side (1986). JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke, Oliver Robins and Zelda Rubinstein return for this second film. It has been four years since the Freelings were scared out of their Cuesta Verde home. As it turns out, the house sat on a lot where a cemetery used to be. They moved the cemetery, but not the bodies. The Freelings now live with Diane's mother (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and the kids are glad to be with Grandma. The Freelings are hoping to claim money for the loss of their home. Diane (JoBeth Williams) is having a difficult time dealing with the phenomenon she experienced four years ago. There is an unexpected death in the family and the poltergeists make a return to scare the Freeling family. It is Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) they are after again. Now in the physical form of a creepy preacher (Julian Beck). Only one man can help them now, an indian Shaman, Taylor (Will Sampson). He has already visited... Read more

By any stretch of the imagination, POLTERGEIST, released in the summer of 1982, was one of the few horror films released in the Eighties that had any business being referred to as a masterpiece of its genre. Putting a typical middle-class California family into a situation of supernatural horrors, POLTERGEIST scared up a ton of business. So it's not too surprising that it should have spawned a sequel, given that it had such an ambiguous ending. But POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE, despite retaining a good deal of the original movie's best elements, is one of what I like to call Frustrating Horror Sequels--films that you hope are going to succeed on their own merits, but instead end up not only falling short on that count but standing in the shadows of their predecessors in the bargain. Once again, Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Oliver Robins, and Heather O'Rourke (Dominique Dunne, who played the oldest daughter, was strangled to death not long after the release of the first mov... Read more

"They're Back" and they're scarier than ever. In 1982, POLTERGEIST was the one movie that stood strongly right next to THE EXORCIST, as being the second most horrifying movie around. In 1986, just four years after the first film, director Brian Gibson had given us, POLTERGEIST 2: THE OTHER SIDE. It has been a full year since the Freelings experienced the horrifying ordeal that took place in their haunted home. Now, STEVEN FREELING(again played by Craig T. Nelson) and DIANE FREELING (again played by JoBeth Williams), are safe with their children, ROBBIE (again played by Oliver Robbins) and CAROL ANNE Freeling (again played by Heather O'Rourke), while they live with Diane's mother, JESSICA WILSON (played by Geraldine Fitzgerald). All seems well, until the family begins experiencing more horrifying activity in Jessica's house. While shopping one day with Robbie and Carol Anne, Diane runs into a strange old man, who only goes by the name of KANE (played by Julian Beck). Seems as tho... Read more

I will say that compared to the first Poltergeist, that this second volume could have been more interesting.Sequels are still a problem and rarely, they finally look better than the original.The story of Poltergeist 2 is not very believable indeed. It talks about a preacher and a cavern...(I won't tell the story) while the first episode was about a removed cemetery... They can't just create a new story without relation with the original one, but they do !!Anyway, I personally like the nasty old guy and the plot is in my opinion scarrier than the first film if the direction and the script had been better. Unfortunately, it's not the case.The FX (at the end especially) are quite disappointing.I will add that it is a boring movie ! A pity, some ideas were good !