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Released
1986 · FILM

Poltergeist II: The Other Side

When a grieving family moves to escape a past haunting, they must battle a vengeful cult preacher’s ghost who returns to claim their daughter before she becomes his portal to the other side.

“"They're back"”

Directed by
Brian Gibson
Written by
Mark Victor, Michael Grais
Runtime
91 min
Horror

Synopsis

The Freeling family relocates to live with Diane's mother in an attempt to recover from the trauma and consequences of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. However, the Beast proves persistent, reappearing as a ghostly figure in the guise of Reverend Kane, a religious zealot who caused the deaths of numerous followers. His objective remains unchanged—he seeks to reclaim the angelic Carol Anne.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Thom NobleShot by Andrew LaszloScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by Ted Haworth

Box Office

1986 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$41.0M

Budget$19.0M
Worldwide gross$41.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Poltergeist II - Die andere Seitede
  • Poltergeist II: El otro ladoes
  • Poltergeist 2fr
  • Poltergeist II - L'altra dimensioneit

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