Quotes
 Tangina: Kane! Give her back her family. You don`t need them. You don`t need Carol Anne! I can lead you into the light. I have the KNOWLEDGE... and the POWER! Donna Gardner: CAROL ANNE, CAROL ANNE, CAROL ANNE!
Bruce Gardner: Carol Anne! Carol Anne! Carol Anne!
Pat Gardner: Bruce! Bruce! Bruce!
Tangina: [on the phone] Dr Seaton? Kane found Carol Anne, and it`s all your fault.
Carol Anne: A woman`s entitled to change her mind.
Tangina: My God! HE FOUND HER!
Kane: Carol Anne, don`t afraid! We won`t harm you, we love you. You`re are only angel, who can lead us into the light. We would never hurt you, NEVER! Don`t run away from me. We need you Carol Anne, LEAD US INTO THE LIGHT!
Bruce Gardner: WHAT DO YOU WANT?
Kane: YOU!
Pat Gardner: [after Bruce gets sucked into the window void outside the building, Carol Anne shows up to warn Pat off]
[shouts]
Pat Gardner: Carol Anne!
Carol Anne: [sadly] Go away, Pat! He doesn`t want them, he only wants me! You don`t love me, you don`t want me here. My parents don`t love me either. They sent me away. Kane loves me, Kane wants me!
[holds out her hand]
Carol Anne: Give me Tangina`s necklace and you can have Bruce and Donna back. They`re your family. I`ll go with Kane.
Pat Gardner: [voice quivering] Your mom and dad do love you! They love you very much! And I love you too. It`s hard for me to show it sometimes but I do love you!
Carol Anne: [doesn`t believe her] No, save your family! They`re the ones who mean something to you, not me!
Pat Gardner: [with tears in her eyes] That`s not true! You are part of my family! You and Donna are like my children! I love you, Carol Anne and I`ll do anything to prove that! You`ve got to believe me!
Carol Anne: [angrily] No! Go away!
Pat Gardner: [sobbing] Carol Anne!
Carol Anne: [with Kane`s voice and face] Go away!
[Pat jumps back in shock and the spirit masquerading as Carol Anne disappears into the void]
Tangina: Stay back! He`s got the girls, and now HE WANTS YOU!
Tangina: THAT`S NOT CAROL ANNE!
Bruce Gardner: How would you feel if some quack told you that you had supernatural powers?
Pat Gardner: Do you remember that guy that was on all the talk shows, used to bend keys, fix watches, took Polaroids of himself in the dark? Maybe Carol Anne?
Bruce Gardner: Please not you too, give the kid a break, first your crazy brother in law used her as a scapegoat from the quarter of million homes, he built.
Pat Gardner: Steven didn`t!
Bruce Gardner: Steven and your sister have put the poor thing threw hell, with those weirdo psychics and witchdoctors.
Pat Gardner: You look great! Now remember, LESS IS MORE!
[Donna is putting on powder and looking in her compact mirror]
Bruce Gardner: You better be careful. Remember what happened to Narcissus?
Donna Gardner: Nar-who?
Bruce Gardner: Greek mythology. He was a guy who loved looking at his reflection so much in a pond that he fell in and drowned.
Donna Gardner: Well, only a boy could be that clumsy.
Pat Gardner: You got that right.
Tangina: I`m one of your brother-in-laws, weirder psychics. SHH!
Marcie Moyer: Oh, Scott! My knight in shining acne!
Tangina: Outside, in.
Donna Gardner: And they thought I was her.
Carol Anne: You are so declasse.
Bruce Gardner: Fucking son of a bitch!
Pat Gardner: Oh, who the hell goddam cares?
Donna Gardner: [inside the security office] Wanna see panic?
[over the intercom while watching her friends swim in the pool]
Donna Gardner: This is the police! We have you surrounded! Please come out with your hands up and your pants down!
Scott: [on the intercom] Hello, this is your camp director. Jeff, quit pissing in the pool.
Carol Anne: [after missing her ride] Great! I don`t have to go to that creepy school today!
Trivia
Tom Skerritt makes a reference to Brian De Palma`s Carrie (1976) to Nancy Allen. This is presumably an in-joke, as Allen had starred in that film, as Chris Hargenson, back in 1976.
End credits explain that the role of Reverend Kane had originally been portrayed by Julian Beck.
Zelda Rubinstein had to leave the production midway because of her mother`s death.
At the beginning of the film, the characters mistakenly believe that the weather outside is cold. When they descend from the upper floors to the ground level however, they find that it is in fact quite warm. This phenomenon of weather varying from the upper to lower floors actually does occur at the Hancock Center due to the building`s height. Residents often call the lobby doormen before leaving their apartments to find out what conditions are like at ground level.
Heather O`Rourke (Carol Anne) and Zelda Rubinstein (Tangina) are the only two people to appear in all three Poltergeist films.
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# Although much of the film is set in Chicago`s John Hancock Center, the shopping area and parking garage as seen in the film do not exist in the Hancock Center. The shopping area (especially the escalators seen immediately before the art gallery sequence) is across the street, in the Water Tower Place shopping mall. The parking garage is definitely not the Hancock Center`s, it was filmed in a high rise dual tower complex called "Oakbrook Terrace" in a suburb west of Chicago.
In this film alone, Carol Anne`s name is spoken a total of 118 times.
Lara Flynn Boyle`s film debut.
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# Following the death of Heather O`Rourke in February of 1988 after she finished her work on the film (April-June 1987), it was the decision of director Gary Sherman to temporarily shelve the project during its post-production phase. However, due to the amount of money that had already been spent, MGM insisted that the film be finished and released as scheduled for June of 1988 or they would find someone else to do it. Apparently, after the film was given a PG rating by the MPAA in November 1987, the studio had already decided to have Sherman re-shoot the ending with more graphic scenes, in order to "up" the rating to PG-13. Planning for this re-shoot began in December 1987 and continued into January 1988, but was temporarily put on hold when O`Rourke died Feb. 1. The re-shoot (which used a stand-in for Heather) eventually took place in March, and the film was then "re-edited" and given a PG-13 by the MPAA in April 1988. Director Sherman would later claim that no such "re-shoot" took place, instead insisting that Heather died before they could film the "original ending" and that the current ending using the body double was what they hastily threw together when forced to "finish" the film by MGM. However, he is contradicted by at least six other people who also worked on the film who confirmed that the original ending was in fact filmed before Heather died and that the re-shoot of the ending took place after her passing. These people include producer Barry Bernardi, actor Kipley Wentz, assistant editor Jeanne Bonansinga, composer Joe Renzetti, special effects makeup artist Doug Drexler and the man who provided the voice for the Rev. Kane, Corey Burton.
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# Although there was an internet rumor that Jerry Goldsmith was originally contracted to score this film but quit due to budget cuts (and then supposedly used his "unused" P3 score later in The Haunting (1999)), this rumor is untrue. Goldsmith was unhappy with the results of Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) and did not have an interest in doing the third film. Also, it`s clear that MGM did not want to spend the extra money they knew it would cost to hire Goldsmith, considering that "Poltergeist III" was being made on a lower budget than the last film. Ultimately, "Poltergeist III" was scored by Joe Renzetti, who director Gary Sherman recommended, having worked with Renzetti previously on his other low-budget movies.
After filming of the scene where the cars chase Patricia and Bruce, the car`s explosion set the entire set on fire, almost taking a crew member and a few cameras he was rescuing. When Heather O`Rourke showed up for filming the next day and heard about the incident from director Gary Sherman, she was relieved that no one was hurt. She then asked Sherman, "Did you get the shot?"
Producer David E. Kelley has quite a connection to this film. He cast Tom Skerritt and Zelda Rubinstein in his Emmy-winning TV drama "Picket Fences" (1992) after seeing them together in this film. The character of Skerrit`s daughter was played by Holly Marie Combs on the show. That character is reminiscent in character and physicality to Lara Flynn Boyle`s character Donna Gardner in this film. Nancy Allen was originally cast to portray the town`s mayor in Season 2 of "Picket Fences" but had to drop out due to her contractual obligations to appear in RoboCop 2 (1990) and RoboCop 3 (1993). That role was then filled by Leigh Taylor-Young.
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Tom Skerritt
(as Bruce Gardner)
with Nancy Allen
(as Patricia Wilson-Gardner)
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