Paranormal Activity 3 Review

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When Paranormal Activity was released, I had no real interest in seeing it. I thought it would be just another one of those "found footage" movies that was attempting to be like The Blair Witch Project. I ended up watching it and I found it to be boring and uneventful. The acting wasn't very good and the movie just wasn't scary. Now that I have this blog I basically had to review the new Paranormal Activity 3 movie that's being released although I didn't want to. Many people believe that the films that come after their originals aren't ain't as good. That way of thinking appears to be true in most cases, but I was hoping that Paranormal Activity 3 would be one of the few exceptions to that rule.

Paranormal Activity 3 is a prequel to the original film. It features Kate and Kristi as children back in September of 1988. Its goal is to give a back story to the first two films and help us understand how all of this came to be in that family.

In my review of Apollo 18, I remember saying that the movie was okay but they needed to stop with these "found footage" horror films. After seeing Paranormal Activity 3 I will gladly take that back. This movie was straight up spooky and creepy. They did everything in this film that they tried (and failed) to do in the original version. The way they set up the scenes and scares in this film worked almost every time. You could feel it coming, but you didn't know what it was and you didn't know when it was going to happen. That kind of suspense built up the actual events even more and it went on for the whole film with almost no. down time. It's even done like this at the end of Paranormal Activity 3 and what happens will catch you completely off guard.

These actors were probably the best in the series so far. They were believable in their roles and you either felt everything they felt or you saw what they felt or experienced. They showed you the perspective of pretty much every within character and I think that added to the overall development of the film. As many scares as they tried to put in this movie, the characters made it even more realistic. When I think about it, even the comedic spots they were involved in fit perfectly and felt natural.

Paranormal Activity 3 is definitely one of the best scary movies that I've ever seen before in my entire life. They didn't use any gore and you couldn't really see the ghostly entity that was wreaking havoc. This movie used tension, fear and the unknown as its most important weapons. They used all of those along with a good cast to marvelously tell the story. I thought these "found footage" movies had run their course and I was certain that my review of this movie would be a bad one. I went into this movie with a negative attitude and came out of it with a huge smile on my face. I don't scare easily, goal Paranormal Activity 3 almost got me at least a few times... almost.

Score: 8/10

Rating: R

Directors:
Henry Joost
Ariel Schulman

Cast:
Christopher Nicholas Smith
Lauren Bittner
Chloe Cserngey
Jessica Tyler Brown
Katie Featherston
Sprague Grayden
Brian Boland

Film Length: 84 minutes

Release Date: October 21, 2011

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Paranormal activity 2 review

Original Paranormal activity to be fresh and public reaction was almost as entertaining as the film itself. Documentary-style horror movies are nothing new of course. Blair Witch began the trend, and films such as the implementation of quarantine and Cloverfield have helped evolve the genre. Still, many film lovers generally love or these types of hate movies. While the original was a gem and staff favorite of mine, Paranormal activity 2 seems to have lost the original spark.

The first film written and directed by Orin Peli, was its first crack at making film. Actors from the original used their real names, and Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat were originally paid $500 for their work. The film was purchased by Dreamworks Pictures, which were then acquired by Paramount. I wanted to highlight these facts because I believe they are the cause of the issues of Paranormal activity 2.

Sport film a new Director and a small army of writers. There are two creative choices I think have been detrimental to the film. The first was the choice to include characters from the original in the suite. Conspiracy of the paranormal activity 2 runs concurrent with the original, and the main objective of this film is with the sister of Katie Kristi and his family. I was hoping that this film would itself disconnect the first film. Just persistence works.

Second madness lies in the use of multiple cameras. Intrigue manages this by implementing a scene where it appears someone introduced in house of Kristi and tossed about the family possessions, but nothing seems to be stolen. Reaction of the family is to have installed throughout the home security cameras. One reason I loved the first movie was it is "less is more" approach when it comes to shooting. Any mystery or the sense of suspense in the first movie is almost lost Paranormal activity 2, simply because the audience is shown throughout.

Paranormal activity 2 is a chore to watch. Film focuses much too heavily on its characters and not enough on the announced topic. The acting varies in quality. Kristi (Sprague Grayden) was the worst of the crew and her daughter, Ali (Molly Ephraim) the best. He y long extended no liveness, let alone that the paranormal variety. There are several attempts to what I can only describe as demographic gadget. The inclusion of children and, more specifically, a toddler, appeared to be a good market tactics aimed at improving the fears of parents in the audience.

For those of you who saw the first film in cinemas, one of the most memorable aspects of the experience paranormal were the reactions of the public. Woman cries, the heckling surpries by men and everyone asking if it was real that they saw fair. I can probably say public reaction was not yet a factor in Paranormal activity 2, I never heard a breath of someone else in theatre, and I don't think a single scene brings such a response. Dramatic points of Paranormal activity 2 can see from a mile away.

The film tries to also play strongly the aspect "is that true?" the horror of the documentary-style film. The film opens with a message saying "Paramount Pictures would like to thank the families of the deceased" and the film ends with a black screen, waiting to deploy credits up to five minutes have elapsed. Two paranormal movies are absolute fiction, and I find that tried so hard to keep the filmmakers made a hilarious mystery. I have not met anyone who believes that these films are anything but a fictitious production.

At this point, I hope that mussels franchise. I thought the original was genius, and I think that orin Peli deserves more credit for the film, instead of a written back position on the follow-up. Paramount Pictures made too many mistakes with the suite, and I think it's a perfect example of how not to handle a suite.