Paranormal Activity 3

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Paranormal Activity 3

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2011

1h 21m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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A videographer becomes obsessed with finding the source of disturbing late-night noises in his home and discovers its terrifying origin.

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Critics 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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Dylan Scott

Vox

10/19/2018

Fresh feeling and a gloriously gonzo finale.

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

01/27/2012

2.5/4

It's another low-budget, high-concept excursions into shock horror filmmaking that once again uses the audience's imagination against them to produce a wild flurry of shrieks and scares.

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Jim Schembri

The Age (Australia)

10/24/2011

3.5/5

PA3 not only delivers quality jolts in spades, it turns out to be much scarier than The Blair Witch Project.

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David Day

Horror Movie Talk

Sep 23

10/10

Producers, take note. For the low cost of some fishing line, you can scare me way more than if you pay a huge crew of computer animators to design a monster that runs around and skins people.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Sep 9

3/5

A step down from the original but a step up from its predecessor, this is less of a success due to era-appropriate gags and more the ambitious reveals in the final act.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

03/07/2023

1.5/4

The characters here are little more than victims predestined to their fate, since we’ve already witnessed what happened to Katie and Kristi. Ostensibly, we’re watching a supernatural snuff film.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 8h

The worldwide gross is $207,039,844.00 over a production budget of $5,000,000.00. More than 41.4 times the production budget.

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August A

@augustinwunderland95 Jun 14

Fantastic scares, especially during the final sequence! Definitely the scariest of the first 3 Paranormal Activity films. However, the original story was (in my opinion) played out after the first 2, so the prequel plotline felt tiresome.

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Declan D.

@filmbuffkid Apr 5

Ok some might get mad at me for saying this but I liked this one a little bit more than the first one, the reason why I liked this more than the first two was because it explains more about their backstory. And it was pretty underrated, visual effects were starting to get better after this one, but it’s a great movie that was better than the first, not masterpiece level but the underrated level. 8.3/10.

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Christian G

@TheFearFactor Mar 25

Not scary at all.I thought it would have a lot more intense moments in the movie 🎥 it made me wait the whole movie for absolutely nothing.

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Bret M.

@BretM-3 Mar 21

This movie was good, but felt a little bit like a drop off from the last 2. Now I'm not saying it was bad, but it's definitely a bit of a drop off. Mainly because it's a period piece that doesn't feel anything like a period piece. The movie is set in 1988, but the house looks nothing like a house from the 80s, the cameras used and the footage shown looks like just look modern and normal, and there aren't many toys or pop culture references or stuff to make this movie feel like it's from the time period the movie is set. Like, take for example "Stranger Things." Watch one episode of that show and you know it's set in the 80s because it captures that vibe and aesthetic perfectly. But if they didn't tell you the date multiple times in the movie, you might not even remember this is a movie set in the 80s. That's my biggest complaint about this movie, and it is a big one that really takes me out of the experience. But past that I have no other real complaints.

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KerryWhite's S.

@KerryWhite77 Nov 11

7/10. 70/100. | With Chloe Lainhart

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Synopsis

A videographer becomes obsessed with finding the source of disturbing late-night noises in his home and discovers its terrifying origin.

Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Producer: Jason Blum, Oren Peli
Screenwriter: Christopher Landon
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Blumhouse, Room 101 Inc., Solana Films
Rating: R (Drug Use|Brief Sexuality|Language|Some Violence)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 21, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 20, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $104.0M
Runtime: 1h 21m