I slept with the lights on after watching Paranormal Activity 3. As the trailer advertised, “the last fifteen minutes will mess you up for life.”
The trailer was right.
In this prequel Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman explore Katie (Chloe Csengery) and Kristie’s (Jessica Tyler Brown) first paranormal encounters with “Toby,” the same demonic spirit that haunts the girls as adults in the previous movies. , directors
Their mother (Lauren Bittner) and her boyfriend (Christopher Nicolas Smith) set up two cameras in order to capture the strange and violent occurrences happening around the house.
The film’s most thrilling aspect was the “security camera” point of view, a creative technique used in all three films. The characters set up one camera on to a large room. For the audience, not being able to see what was happening on the other side of the room as the camera movedwas absolutely terrifying.
I found myself obsessively scanning the screen all 91 minutes, afraid to lean back in my seat or put my feet on the ground for fear of what might be lurking below me. This state of teeth-chattering terror was interrupted only by unexpected fits of screaming whenever “Toby” arrived.
But I’m not complaining; any more of a storyline would have taken away from the film’s true thrills, and the shocking twist at the very end forgave all other lapses in the plot sequence.
Paranormal Activity 3 is a must-see; it’s by far the best out of all the Paranormal movies and definitely one of the best horror films of 2011. Five out of five stars.