So this movie does scare you enough to have your money worth. But Paranormal Activity 3 has to be the most inaccurate prequel to the storyline of the first two movies. Frankly the trailer was more accurate than the movie itself. From what I decipher from the first two movies, during their childhood, Christie and Katie's parent died when their house was burned down. They did spoke about being raised by their grandmother, but nothing related to it. Well, the script writers changed the script completely and still managed to win over.
By now the fans of the most surprising movie franchise of the decade knows that Christie and Katie had experienced incidents of paranormal nature during their childhood. The story thus takes place during their childhood, staying with their mother Julie and her boyfriend Dennis who coincidently for the sake of us all happens to be a guess what, movie-maker. He shoots marriage videos and Christie and Katie's mother has given him his own editing room inside the house.
Now, we got the cameras and a natural enthusiast, who loves shooting videos. So let just get down to scary business and set the cameras up; but before that, sex tape! Yay! Nope wait, just as it really hots up there is an earthquake and the couple flees the room, leaving us to witness some strange wave of dust falling from the ceiling. After that Dennis concludes immediately that there is something wrong in their new home. Julie plays the role of the usual naysayer, but manages to pull off the biggest fake scare of all during the early sequences. But that ends up being the biggest scare of the movie before the final reel rolls in.
As Dennis sets up multiple cameras in search of the invisible member of the family, young Kristie has him 'Toby' playing with her some tricks during midnight hours. Toby leaves with the young girls in their dark storage room and happens to dislike cameras a lot. His antics begin to rage and somehow become very camera friendly, especially for the camera set on the moving base of a portable fan. To watch him at one position and as the camera switches back to the same point finding no movement of him is more funny trickery than scary. And it all continues till Julie had enough of it when Dennis presents a theory that her family past had members in some witch coven and Toby brings down the kitchen. Frankly both were a stretch for the audience as well as it takes the storyline in a very different direction but in good fun.
Many people expected audience to be exhausted of these camera tricks and stories based on our childhood's bedtime scares. But the paranormal activity movies have become a habit for the blood thirsty horror fans, which are drained of good horror movies recently. Off course, sometime we all hope that Dennis would put down the camera and help his scared kid or wife hanging in thin air; but then we won't have a movie to enjoy. It is good fun and a decent time at the cinema where you watch a horror movie get scared and somehow come out of the theatre smiling.
By now the fans of the most surprising movie franchise of the decade knows that Christie and Katie had experienced incidents of paranormal nature during their childhood. The story thus takes place during their childhood, staying with their mother Julie and her boyfriend Dennis who coincidently for the sake of us all happens to be a guess what, movie-maker. He shoots marriage videos and Christie and Katie's mother has given him his own editing room inside the house.
Now, we got the cameras and a natural enthusiast, who loves shooting videos. So let just get down to scary business and set the cameras up; but before that, sex tape! Yay! Nope wait, just as it really hots up there is an earthquake and the couple flees the room, leaving us to witness some strange wave of dust falling from the ceiling. After that Dennis concludes immediately that there is something wrong in their new home. Julie plays the role of the usual naysayer, but manages to pull off the biggest fake scare of all during the early sequences. But that ends up being the biggest scare of the movie before the final reel rolls in.
As Dennis sets up multiple cameras in search of the invisible member of the family, young Kristie has him 'Toby' playing with her some tricks during midnight hours. Toby leaves with the young girls in their dark storage room and happens to dislike cameras a lot. His antics begin to rage and somehow become very camera friendly, especially for the camera set on the moving base of a portable fan. To watch him at one position and as the camera switches back to the same point finding no movement of him is more funny trickery than scary. And it all continues till Julie had enough of it when Dennis presents a theory that her family past had members in some witch coven and Toby brings down the kitchen. Frankly both were a stretch for the audience as well as it takes the storyline in a very different direction but in good fun.
Many people expected audience to be exhausted of these camera tricks and stories based on our childhood's bedtime scares. But the paranormal activity movies have become a habit for the blood thirsty horror fans, which are drained of good horror movies recently. Off course, sometime we all hope that Dennis would put down the camera and help his scared kid or wife hanging in thin air; but then we won't have a movie to enjoy. It is good fun and a decent time at the cinema where you watch a horror movie get scared and somehow come out of the theatre smiling.