Posted in cinema, tagged A Nightmare on Elm Street, Blue Velvet, David Lynch, Dream Warriors, Fire Walk With Me, Freddy Krueger, Freddy's Revenge, Gary Sherman, Jack Sholder, Johnny Depp, Poltergeist III, The Hidden, Twin Peaks, Wes Craven on January 31, 2018| 8 Comments »
Perhaps it’s sacrilegious to suggest that Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street had a deep and lasting influence on Twin Peaks. Today, Twin Peaks is regarded as a fairly classy show—prestige TV before the current era of prestige TV— whereas A Nightmare on Elm Street is decidedly less classy, partly due to the fact that it was followed by a string of increasingly campy sequels. But when you stop and consider the two works in relation to one another, you find numerous similarities.
Posted in cinema, tagged Chicago, David Lynch, Gary Sherman, German Expressionism, Heather O'Rourke, Lara Flynn Boyle, Nancy Allen, Poltergeist, Poltergeist III, Richard Fire, Steven Spielberg, Tobe Hooper, Tom Skeritt, Zelda Rubinstein on November 27, 2017| 5 Comments »
No one ever told me that Poltergeist III is a great film—quite the opposite. Whenever the 1988 movie comes up (which rarely happens), it’s usually because someone wants to point out how Heather O’Rourke, who played little Carol Anne Freeling, died during its making, a tragic incident that contributed to the superstition that the Poltergeist franchise is cursed. Otherwise, the movie is maligned, the same way that Poltergeist II: The Other Side is maligned.
Well, I can’t really defend Poltergeist II, which is mostly a mediocre retread of the original 1982 classic, dignified only by Julian Beck’s performance as the evil Reverend Kane. But Poltergeist III, while exceedingly different from the first film, is a classic in its own right, and deserving of greater recognition.
Here’s why.
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