Its amazing how big the Paranormal Activity movies has become in America. The budget is very small, but the box office profit is incredible, people love documentary made horror. I can understand why, if it´s done in a effectively way, it works very well. When the first movie came out in 2007, i thought to myself:- Oh no, not another Blair Witch Project rip off. But it was actually ok. And the sequel was better than the first one. So this time around, we have a prequel. Can Paranormal Activity still work, or should the chapter have been closed earlier?
2005. Katie (Kate Featherstone) and her sister Kristi (Sprague Grayden) finds old vhs tapes in a box, recorded back in 1988, wich contains videos of family members Julie Bittner (Lauren Bittner) and her boyfriend Dennis (Christopher Nicholas Smith). They have 2 children, Katie and Kristi. Dennis works as a wedding videographer, who owns a lot of camera equipment. While filming in his own home, he notice that strange things are happening. His daughter Julie is filmed talking to her invisible friend Toby. Dennis is not worried though, since this must be her imagination. But suddenly more things begin to happen, wich affect the whole family. Who is this Toby, and what does he want?
To be honest, there is not alot of suprises for beeing a prequel, until the last 20 minutes of the movie. Then we actually get some nice suprises. Paranormal Activity 3 won´t change anything with this genre, it is exactly what you expect, well made horror with small details. One of the problems though is the lack of new ideas, but still not ruin the concept. I was kind of hoping on more details, why this haunting have followed this family for so many generations. Maybe we will have some more answers in the 4th movie, thats beeing made. Untill then, this one is worth renting. This is actually not that bad at all.
Rating: DDD
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