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There really isn’t a compelling reason for those ghosts to continue haunting poor little Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke). But if it were a stand-alone movie outside a famous franchise, Poltergeist III might not have been half bad. There’s inventive use of mirrors throughout the movie (it’s how the spirits travel this time around), and the aspect of a broken family trying to reforge itself is enough to hang a narrative on. It’s always good to see Tom Skerritt on-screen, and Lara Flynn Boyle is good as his teenaged daughter. Tiny, squeaky-voiced Zelda Rubinstein returns as the psychic Tangina Barrons. Tragically, twelve-year-old O’Rourke died during filming of complications from Crohn’s Disease. With Nancy Allen.