Poltergeist III (1988) Heather O Rourke - WTF Happened to This Horror Movie?
January 25, 2021 by:
All three films in the 80s
Poltergeist trilogy have stories of odd occurrences and tragedy connected to them. We ve previously dedicated an episode of our
WTF Happened to This Horror Movie video series to digging into the strangeness surrounding the first
Poltergeist (watch it HERE), and in the latest episode we re taking a look at WTF happened to
Poltergeist III (watch that one HERE).
Directed by Gary Sherman from a screenplay he wrote with Brian Taggert,
Poltergeist III was a troubled production, and the film was nearly scrapped when its star Heather O Rourke passed away at the age of 12. To learn more about the problems the filmmakers dealt with during the shoot and the heartbreaking loss of O Rourke during post, check out the video embedded above.