Reverend Henry Kane

Reverend Henry Kane is a male character from the Poltergiest film trilogy. in Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986), he was played by the late Julian Beck. In Poltergeist III (known in Australia as Poltergeist III: The Final Chapter) (1988), he was played by Nathan Davis, but an uncredited Corey Burton provided his voice.

Kane was an insane Christian Minister who predicted the end of the world. He lead his followers to a cavern in which they prepared for Judgement Day. Even after Kane's predicted doomsday pasted, he keep himself and his followers in the cavern, in which they eventually died. His followers' sprits were unable to rest because of their untimely death. Kane himself also became unable to rest as a spirit, and became a powerful, Satan-like spirit known as The Beast. In the first movie, Kane (appearing not in his natural form, but in the form of a giant monsterous skeleton-like head and a spidery bony spectal being with ghostly white hair) kidnapped Carol Anne Freeling, the youngest member of the family who lived in a house bulit over the cavern that Kane and his followers died in, and took her to the Other Side (the dimension between the world of the living and the hereafter. Kane lied to Carol Anne and claimed to be her friend so she could help lead him and other lost souls in the light that lead to the hereafter. In the second movie, Kane showed his true form and tried to pull the Freeling family apart. In the third movie, he took on Carol Anne's form and stalked mortals in mirrors that served as portals to the Other Side. At the end of the third film, the Freeling family's Clarivoyant ally, Tangina Barrons, goes off with Kane so he can go into the light and leave the Freeling family alone forever.

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