Movies like Poltergeist II: The Other Side

“Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) is a 1980s American supernatural horror that stages a domestic confrontation between parental guardianship and a religiously inflected spirit. The film concentrates dramatic conflict on the Freeling family's post-trauma relocation and uses shadow-driven, high-contrast lighting and claustrophobic interiors to set childhood vulnerability against cult-like zealotry. The work asserts that the emotional urgency derives less from spectacle than from the psychic cost of protecting an innocent child.”