So, after two movies I am quite curious about this whole series and really liking it. I wouldn't have assumed this at all. There are two more to go after this one. No more time to waste, we gotta talk about demons and witches!
Ok, so the plot. Well... it's pretty much the same as the first two with a couple of tweaks. There is a neat tweak though. You go all the way back even before the Paranormal Activity 2 to the mostly dead characters from those movies finding a big box of VHS tapes from their childhood. Katie gives the tapes to Kristi and maybe thirty seconds later you find out they were stolen during the house ransacking in PA:2 before anyone could watch them. So, we end up watching them as an audience. So we take a jump back in time twice! We get to play silent witness to the girl's childhood in 1988 as the demon starts to touch their lives. Generally the same, but still pretty different.
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| I know it looks bad. But trust me, the movie is actually scary. |
The family consists of Julie the mother, Dennis the father and young Katie and Kristi. In a refreshing change, these are all pretty likable characters. Dennis is the first male presence in the series who isn't a total shitbag, he's actually awesome. Julie is a devoted mother with a short patience for nonsense. Kristi and Katie are just your average little girls. Running around, playing, being generally creepy. Oh yes these little girls are creepy as hell. But, of course, you know it, you love it, the demon! Don't you fret either, because the demon, now named Toby, is a massive asshole still. This thing crosses into new frontiers of dickery. You almost seem to think Toby chilled out in it's older years from what we see in the first two movies. While the family may be likable, they suffer severely from white people in horror movie syndrome. They do their level best to be in every silly situation to get hurt.
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| Good thing they were playing Bloody Mary and not Candy Man, Tony Todd would not have been happy. |
Paranormal Activity 3 just seems to improve on the work of the rest of the series. Scares and scenes are more ambitious as the budget grows and it really shows. You're gonna get the jump scares as usual, but what is really a treat is when the demon is just fucking with people. It is a master at just being a pest until it has enough strength to really mess you up. Some of the more tense scenes I've watched appear towards the end and it's really a treat, Not to say everything here is perfect. I can see how if the story doesn't engage you, the kind of lazy copying of the previous script can get old fast and you would rather see something else. Paranormal Activity 3 is just a super fun time, even when things that don't make sense are happening. Just look at it for what it is, a story about a haunted house. I'd give it a good rating for a sure, it's worth watching no matter the time of year.
Another review in the basket. 24 more to go and I don't have any plans to stop. Until tomorrow, don't be afraid to be a little scary.
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