Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
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Critic Consensus: While the jolts and thrills are undeniably subject to the diminishing returns that plague most horror sequels, Paranormal Activity 3 is a surprisingly spine-tingling treat.
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Joost and Schulman sustain a consistent sense of dread, playing with our own fears of things that go bump in the night.
If you haven't seen the first two movies, why are you watching this? And if you have seen the first two movies, why do you need to watch this?
Series creator Oren Peli and his conscripts have managed to do it again, but you have to wonder how far they can continue to push this found-footage angle.
The shtick movie "Paranormal Activity 3" is the horror equivalent of vaudeville comedy: a little patter, a little pie in the face, repeat.
This third Paranormal is a prequel that occasionally goes off the rails but also offers more laughs and somewhat more character development than the previous installments.
It ... brings fake-out jolts and humor into play.
Audience Reviews for Paranormal Activity 3
A dull and obvious prequel with a predictable paper-thin plot that reuses the same old unscary sheet tricks of the first movie and even has a guy - stubborn to the point of stupidity - carrying a camera for much longer after good sense would have made him drop it.
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Going even deeper into its mythology, the third movie is certainly sacrificing the things which made the second so scary to develop a more interesting story. By the end of this movie my teeth were clenched together so hard that my jaw was hurting. Pure terror and dread up until a spine chilling climax make this movie the most effective, although not the scariest.
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It would have been a better film had it not been made as "Found Footage," because there is real ingenuity in the way this prequel scares its audience and expands on the mythology, but the drawbacks to this style, such as long drawn out periods of nothing happening and limited perspectives, are now at their most evident.
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Paranormal Activity 3 Quotes
| Katie: | Fuckin' potato dick. |
| Katie: | im making a sandwich! |
| Katie: | I'm making a sandwich! |
| Katie: | (knock knock on closet) (someone else knocks back in closet) dad: hahaha how do you do that? Lil girl:why dont you ask her? dad: funny joke by asking her, it took me a while to figure out that "her" is the ghost or monster or devil or demon in the little girls closet. |
| Katie: | Aaaah! |
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