Minor plot spoilersI am not a fan of this series. The stories are too slow to build with long scenes of nothing and then the scare is minimal. This movie is the spoiler for the series as we find out from the subtitle "It runs in the family." We do get an explanation. This is a prequel filmed in high quality DVD using a VHS camera. The acting was better in this one. Lauren Bittner was convincing as Julie. In one scene she puts on a mask and scares the guys. She is so happy she got one over on them, she jumps around with bubbly joy. Also extremely realistic is young Kristi (Jessica Tyler Brown) who convinces me she has an imaginary friend named Captain Howdy, er ah Toby. Likewise child actor Chloe Csengery did an excellent job as Katie as she goes screaming across the room.There is a sex scene that is comical. Dennis (Christopher Nicholas Smith) starts out mouthing "wack-a-da, wack-a-da" porno music and as a romantic sort stampedes right to Julie's chest. There are some strange events going on in the house, so it gets wired for VHS tapes. Now as I recall the longest VHS tape setting was 6 hours (some were 8 hours) which means they would of had to been changed out frequently and viewed for paranormal activity with some scenes lasting for a second. With multiple cameras going 24/7...well you get the idea of how tedious and impracticable this becomes. In one scene the stationary VHS camera is looking at the entire girl's bedroom and then the next second it is focusing on Kristi's bed. While they used the amateur camera for a realistic effect, they didn't stay true to it, which made for a better movie. Maybe one day they will discover how real movies are made.What is not credible is the wife not believing what is going on and refusing to look at the evidence on film. They had to do this so they could keep the constant build up. Dennis filming everything with the camera at grandma's house didn't make much sense. At some point if you are being chased, you stop filming and run. If you are hiding and need to be quiet, you don't keep the camera on. The chase scene is hard to justify filming in all of these types of movies. I felt a little short changed on the ending.Like the other movies, it starts out slowly, but it doesn't sputter and grind its wheels like they did. This is my favorite of the three.F-bomb, no nudity, comical foreplay scene. Was that a 1993 Free Willy stuffed whale in this 1988 movie? Now that was really unexplained.

Paranormal Activity 3 is one of the scariest horror films I've ever experienced. The film tells the start of how everything happened and how it all led to 2007's Paranormal Activity. The film has so much information pouring out that I love it,what I mean,there's so much information like that the demons name to kids is actually Toby. This film is from the director of Catfish the film and the show which I actually hate,BUT considering the amazing directors made this,I might give it a go! Paranormal Activity 3 is a awesome horror film!!!!

After sitting through the torture of the first comedy in the series, "Paranormal Activity," I'm not sure why I sat through this one as well. I guess I figured there had to be something decent about the series, since they keep making these movies, kind of like how the "Police Academy" movies kept being made for a while.So I watched "Paranormal Activity 3" hoping it would be as funny as the first, and I'm not sure it was, but it was at least just as boring.There were some laughs though in this dull comedy. The wife runs out of the kitchen area in terror when the furniture and more hilariously drops from the ceiling (after the ghost lured her out of the room with a well-timed doorbell ring (an old but gold prank), the ghost pulls the hair of a little girl and she just hangs in thin air (I hate laughing at a little girl, but it was pretty funny), and there's even an impressive scene in a bathroom with one of the little girls and a friend of the family which got some good laughs, and the actors get to show their comedy chops a bit.There's also some of the typical "people dragging" that reminded me of Chris Farley being dragged around in some of his comedies. But mostly it's a very dull show in between the comedy bits. Like the first movie, you can condense this movie in a 20-minute short. Maybe tightening it up would highlight the comedy bits more.Perhaps I'll check out the others in the series I missed. If you are willing to wait a while, often a long while, in between the laughs, maybe these Paranormal Activity comedies will be worth sitting through to you.

After finding the second title in the Paranormal Activity (PA) series to be a bit disappointing, I decided to take a look at the credits for the third PA,and was intrigued to discover that it was directed by two non-Horror film makers,which led to me getting ready to enter the PA world for the third time.The plot-1988:Moving into a new home, Julie,her boyfriend Dennis and Julie's kids Katie and Kristi try to settle down in the new location.As everyone else starts to relax, Kristi begins to talk about an imaginary friend called Toby. Dismissing Kristi's chats to Toby as a child's wild imagination,the family start to hear strange noises,and begin to wonder if objects are moving around the house without any of them touching them.Getting advice from a friend,Dennis sets up video cameras in order to record everything that takes place round the house.As the recordings start,the family start to fear that Kristi's friend Toby is not part of her imagination.View on the film:Teaming up with a co-writer of the second PA,director of the first PA Oren Peli comes back to the franchise with PA 2 co-writer Christopher Landon to deliver a spooky Haunted House tale that also pushes the mythology of the series to the front.Going right to the beginning of the activity taking place,the writers make the references to the other two PA films feel like an omen of the events taking place,thanks to the writers making sure that the references do not dominate the chills.Keeping the family closely knitted,the writers wonderfully use the supernatural horror to build an abrasive friction between the family,as Julie holds on to the hope that Toby is Kristi's dream friend.Swimming from the documentary world,directors Ariel Schulman & Henry Joost lock the house in an icy,slow-burn atmosphere,where each step that the family make round the house is met by creeks and broken objects from an unknown source.Taking advantage of the Found Footage genre,the directors survey the house with excellent,extended tracking shots which creates tense anticipation over something moving in the background,and also casts the impending doom in a superb foreboding manner, as the family are struck by the first ever paranormal activity.