Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
Wow this sucked. It committed the worst offense a horror movie can commit and that's being boring. Seriously I spent half the damn movie on my iPad playing solitaire and occasionally glancing up when the demon inevitably went booo! I'll admit the pacing was decent and there was one shot in particular where the camera is left sitting on the little girls table shooting this teddy bear, while off to the right this little door slowly closes on its own. Other than that it was just as forgettable as the second one with the only thing going for it is the dissemblance of the horror by telling the audience
why the demon is haunting this family.
It's a real shame the Paramounts are going to squeeze this franchise for every last penny it's worth because the first one was actually pretty decent. But isn't that always the case, whenever an indie horror movie does well we get a hastily produced cash-in sequel the next year (
Blair Witch Project and
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2) and after the
Saw franchise proved that people are willing to pay for the same thing 7-times in a row it's no wonder there's a 4th Paranormal Activity movie set to come out this October. It's sad because
Paranormal Activity was the movie that essentially killed the
Saw franchise after utterly crushing
Saw 6 at the box office in 2009, to see it resigned the same fate is just... sad. It doesn't seem like Hollywood is capable of delivering on horror anymore, all it is is just remake '80's horror movies, making grotesque franchises like these two, or Americanizing foreign horror films.