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Feb 14, 2024 · Poltergeist 2's villain, the terrifying Reverend Kane, is a favorite of horror fans, but actor Julian Beck barely made it through production alive. Reverend Kane's actor was literally dying behind the scenes.
He is best known for co-founding and directing the Living Theatre, as well as his role as Reverend Henry Kane, the malevolent preacher in the supernatural horror film Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986).
In death, Kane possesses relatively canoncial poltergeist powers such as possession, invisibility, transparency and telepathy. But he also contains a vast amount of power due to him harvesting the souls of his followers, enabling him to shapeshift and virtually bend all matter to his will.
"Reverend" Henry Kane, also known as The Beast is the fictional main antagonist of the Poltergeist film series. He is the ghost of an angry cult leader who wishes to abduct the youngest child of the Freeling family: Carol Anne, to use her innocence to capture souls trying to enter the Afterlife.
The second entry in the Poltergeist film series and a direct sequel to Poltergeist (1982), it follows the Freeling family who again finds themselves under attack from the supernatural forces led by "the Beast", revealed to be the spirit of an insane preacher who led an apocalyptic cult during
Apr 17, 2020 · Ghost movie classic Poltergeist introduced "The Beast," which subsequent sequels would surprisingly reveal was once a preacher named Henry Kane.
May 31, 2018 · Born on May 31, 1925, Julian Beck wore many hats in the entertainment business, not just the creepy pastor topper we’ve all come to associate him with via Poltergeist II. The on-screen preacher began his love affair with the arts and dabbled in painting abstract expressionist pieces in the early 1940’s until meeting his future wife, Judith ...
