Over the last week I've rewatched The Poltergeist Trilogy on Blu-ray, my memory of the films was that I enjoyed the first film, the second was ok and the third was a cheap and nasty piece of crap.
I still really enjoy the original Poltergeist, it's an entertaining film that has a well told story and for the time is technically well executed.
Poltergeist 2 is a decent movie until it reaches its climax and then it just seems like the people making the movie just didn't know how to end it so they threw some special effects at it and hoped no-one noticed it didn't make any sense.
Poltergeist 3 wasn't in fact a cheap and nasty movie, sure it only had half the budget of Poltergeist 2 but it was made for only a little less than the budget of the original film, I suppose it was because the movie featured so little location shooting and was largely studio bound ( or that's how it seems anyway ), one of the things that really hurt the film was the score Joe Renzetti, it is a genuine shame the producers couldn't get Jerry Goldsmith to return to score the third film.
I wouldn't go so far as to say Poltergeist 3 was a bad movie but it's not as bad as I thought I remembered it being but I also didn't think Poltergeist 2 was as good as I remembered either, Poltergeist however is lots of fun.
