Paranormal Activity 3

Paranormal Activity 3

2011 "Discover how the activity began."
Paranormal Activity 3
Paranormal Activity 3

Paranormal Activity 3

5.8 | 1h23m | R | en | Horror

In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

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5.8 | 1h23m | R | en | Horror , Mystery | More Info
Released: October. 21,2011 | Released Producted By: Paramount , Blumhouse Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.paranormalmovie.com/
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In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

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Katie Featherston , Sprague Grayden , Lauren Bittner

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Jennifer Spence

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Paramount , Blumhouse Productions

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adonis98-743-186503 In 1988, in California, cinematographer Dennis moves to the house of his girlfriend Julie to raise a family with her daughters Katie and Kristi. Little Kristi has an imaginary friend named Toby while weird things happen in the house. Dennis decides to place cameras in the house to capture images during the night and soon he finds that there is an entity in the house. Paranormal Activity 3 is unfortunately another Paranormal Activity that besides some good moments it just misses completely the point and turns into a found footage "porn". (5/10)
Eddie Cantillo Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) Starring:Lauren Bittner, Christopher Nicholas Smith,Chloe Csengery, Jessica Tyler Brown, Hallie Foote, Dustin Ingram, Johanna Braddy, Katie Featherston, Brian Boland, and Sprague Grayden Directed by Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman Review IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY I'm not doing it,nope not this time, oh heck no not another, nope not doing it this time, no I'm not watching another Paranormal activity movie ever again their stupid. Wait hold up what do you mean this one's good, what do you mean the characters aren't morons, what do you mean it has genuine scares? Oh wait it really does. Hello kiddies your pal the crypt-critic is back with some serious and bizarre stuff going on in your bed There is something you should know I do not like the first two installments in this franchise in fact I hate them a lot. I hated them both with a passion, I found them extremely boring, uneventful wastes of my time but what grind my gutters the most about them was that the supposed demon haunting this family did nothing remotely frightening to them. It opened and closed doors, moved bed sheets around and a pool cleaner was possessed in the second film. A pool cleaner kiddies a freaking pool cleaner that's pretty stupid and pretty much it. Those films were boring, tedious, repetitive throughout their run time. A friend of mine said he saw four on xbox and said I should watch it cause of how stupid it was but I could not watch it cause I had yet to see three so I just saw and uttered four words I never thought I'd say about a paranormal activity film. "That was freaking creepy." Paranormal Activity 3 is surprisingly a good movie. Like I said before kiddies I hated the first two movies but this film finally got the concept of a paranormal entity right. This time were watching footage from the 80's as we see the sisters from the first two films as little girls living with their mother and step-father. The younger sister Kristie starts interacting with her invisible friend Tobey who as it turns out is the demon from the first two films. Pretty soon they all find themselves being terrorized by Tobey who wants something that won't be revealed until the end. Now of course it's simple like the first two films which I really don't mind but the directors behind this one manage to pace the film in a good manner, not too good I was kind of bored until more things with the little girls started happening but the tension actually worked. Now remember how I said in the first two films the demon barely did anything, in this film this mother hubber gets violent. He's hanging people by their necks, throwing stuff across the room, launching the furniture everywhere. As this takes place before the first two films you can only assume Tobey lost his confidence or got bored in his old age. This demon actually does stuff in this movie, and after the first thirty minutes his presence is throughout the film. There are scenes were you are waiting for things to happen but when things start happening the movie starts booming. The characters and actors in the first two movies annoyed the heck out of me, I hated them. I didn't like them, I didn't find them interesting, nor did they do anything to pull me into those movies. When the Kristy starts talking to Tobey in the film the step-father is confused but the mother says she does stuff like this all time. Having a step-father who is new to dealing with these little girls was a smart idea and making him a filmmaker was also a smart idea cause now your giving this character a reason to set up all these cameras inside the house and carry a camera everywhere, for once that concept doesn't feel forced upon the audience or the film. But the best acting in this film are little girls who play Kristy and Katie, they act like a young and older sister would act it all feels genuine and felt like I was watching real life while as in the first two films I knew I was watching actors attempting to be scared at stuff that isn't scary. I think the main the main reason I enjoyed this movies is the same reason I enjoyed Transformers:Dark of the moon where as dark of the moon gave me the deception takeover I always wanted in the first two terrible transformer films, Paranormal activity 3 gave the scary entity I've been wanting to see for two movies. Now the demon is actually a threat on screen, he's no longer up randomly moving bed sheets, closing doors or possessing freaking pool cleaners! He's getting violent, causing pain, he's scary, he's more interesting now. Paranormal Activity 3 is the first film in this franchise to not be bore me to my freaking core. It has genuine scares, good characters, and it is a found footage horror film that is actually very good, I'm giving this a three and a half out of five.
jtncsmistad-82689 From thequickflickcritic.blogspot.com/ With "3", I have now seen all installments of the "Paranormal Activity" franchise save for the final act, "The Ghost Dimension", which I look forward to reviewing soon.In terms of this third iteration of ill-omened found footage from 2011, it's pretty much business as usual but for the fact that we learn the childhood origins of why the possessed Katie (Katie Featherston) behaves as balefully as she does in later years. So for that, and really only if you're a fellow fan whose followed along over these past eight years, it is worth the watch.Oh, just one more thing. In critiquing the other chapters of the "PA" franchise, I have neglected to give well earned kudos to the creative legions of the respective sound editing teams. This consistently clever crew commands that one's attention remain resolutely riveted to the screen with their freakily foreboding noises even if nothing of consequence is going down.Or IS it? For in the apparitional land of the paranormal, you're never REALLY sure."Whoa. Did I just SEE that?!" For more of my Movie Reviews categorized by Genre please visit: thequickflickcritic.blogspot.com/
Jethro Troll This third installment of the PA franchise pretty much follows the script of the first two, and while the first one is by far the best, this one is a solid addition to the series.First, let me start off with the one glaring problem with this movie. For the movie to work, you have to suspend belief that in no way most families would endure such trauma. In other words, most normal families, after reviewing footage of the night before and seeing footage of their daughter being lifted off the ground by her hair, or watching their daughter having a one-way conversation with some unseen entity, etc...would have run for the hills much earlier. Of course, that doesn't make a particularly good movie, so if you can suspend that belief and watch this movie for what it is, it's not bad and will provide some chilling moments.This movie is based on the perspective of the viewer watching old, home-made footage. One interesting aspect of this is how this comes about. In the beginning, someone breaks into Kristi's house and steals the box of old VHS tapes, and then suddenly we start watching them. It's not disclosed who this person is that steals them, but I wonder if that becomes an important piece of information for later in the series. Anyways, the old footage shows the sisters as young girls, living with their mom and her boyfriend. The young girls are cute and innocent, and that kind of makes it the more disturbing when you witness what happens to them, especially to the younger one as she generally thinks it's just fun and games, yet we know differently. And what really impressed me was just how good the acting was when it came to the girls, especially the younger one, Kristi. They were believable, engaging, and likable.One different and interesting thing about this installment is the usage of a panning camera which pans back and forth between the kitchen and living room. This adds a level of suspense as it's sweeping back and forth as things are happening. You get the feeling that there's always something dire going on in the other room that you cant see. The scares are pretty similar to the earlier movies in that you really don't see the entity, you just witness the activity going on around the family, though we do see Kristi conversing with it, whom she calls Toby.If you liked the earlier Paranormals, then you'll most likely enjoy this one. Personally, I think the fist one is by far the best so far, and Im getting the feeling that the rest of the franchise wont come close to that one, but this one isn't bad. It follows the similar formula, which isn't a bad idea, and yet it's just different enough that you feel like you're watching a part of a franchise and not the exact same movie. However, it's just not quite as scary or creepy as the first one, nor does it stay with you nearly as long.