Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

Directors:

Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman

Writers:

Christopher Landon, Oren Peli (film "Paranormal Activity")

Stars:

Chloe Csengery, Jessica Tyler Brown, Christopher Nicholas Smith

1 win & 6 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Lauren Bittner	...	Julie
Christopher Nicholas Smith	...	Dennis (as Chris Smith)
Chloe Csengery	...	Katie
Jessica Tyler Brown	...	Kristi (as Jessica Brown)
Hallie Foote	...	Grandma Lois
Dustin Ingram	...	Randy Rosen
Johanna Braddy	...	Lisa
Katie Featherston	...	Adult Katie
Brian Boland	...	Daniel
Sprague Grayden	...	Adult Kristi
William Juan Prieto	...	Hunter (as William Prieto)
Jackson Xenia Prieto	...	Hunter (as Jackson Prieto)
Paitoon Cheng	...	Ida
Eddie Medrano	...	Party Magician
Rebecca Delgado Smith	...	Crying Bridesmaid

Storyline

In 1988, in California, cinematographer Dennis moves to the house of his girlfriend Julie to raise a family with her daughters Katie and Kristi. Little Kristi has an imaginary friend named Toby while weird things happen in the house. Dennis decides to place cameras in the house to capture images during the night and soon he finds that there is an entity in the house. Dennis's friend Randy Rosen (Dustin Ingram) researches the events and learns that his house might be a coven of witches and the children may be in danger.

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Plot Keywords:

looking at oneself in a mirror | no music | younger version of character | 1980s | supernatural power | 

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Taglines:

Discover how the activity began.

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Genres:

Horror | Mystery

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some violence, language, brief sexuality and drug use

Did You Know?

Trivia

The camera seen on screen during most of the film is actually a tiny Hi-Def camera hidden inside the body of a VHS camcorder. For the first few weeks of shooting, Smith did not have a viewfinder to see what his footage would look like. "So what they had to do was they built, or they put in a screen, a little monitor in the viewfinder that was transmitting the video that it was recording in the body of this old VHS tape into this monitor. So I was basically watching a little monitor in the viewfinder, and it was like, week six when they figured that out."

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Goofs

(at around 18 mins) When Dennis is talking to Kristi after watching the first night's tape, she says, "He's my friend," but it doesn't match the movement of her lips.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Daniel: [documenting behind the camera] You'll be spending a lot of time in here. This is gonna be your room. There's some kind of animal being de-liced or something. Compression chamber, that's your crib. It's hermetically sealed. And this is your paint color. What color is that, hon?
Adult Kristi: Jamaica bay blue.

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Crazy Credits

There are no opening credits.

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Alternate Versions

Includes an unrated director's cut and "lost tapes" (Dennis' pranking Julie and a commercial of his video company.)

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Connections

Referenced in Face Off: In the Shadows (2014)

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Soundtracks

Who Do You Love
Written by Rodney Saulsberry & Peter Brown
Performed by Rodney Saulsberry
Courtesy of Crucial Music Corporation

User Reviews

Another successful entry into a very creepy and well-made horror series

I was a big fan of the original PA. I loved it. On rewatches its effect has lessened, but I still remember the impact it had on me. The sequel I liked it a lot too, although it wasn't as creepy as the first I liked that it didn't over-do things like most horror sequels do. It worked in different ways than he original. Paranormal Activity 3 is more like the original than the sequel was.

Like the sequel, I am impressed how much this series still has going for it. Like the sequel it also doesn't overdo things but it does manage to still build up nicely. I wouldn't say that this is a great film, but I do want to say that it continues the success of this series. I like how they continue to build on the main story.

So I do recommend it for fans of the first two... maybe even if you liked the first but not the 2nd. I actually still kinda prefer the 2nd over this for now.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 October 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

Paranormal Activity 3

Filming Locations:

USA

Box Office

Budget:

$5,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$52,568,183, 23 October 2011

Gross USA:

$104,028,807

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$207,039,844

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Solana Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min 94 min (unrated director's cut)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital SDDS Datasat Dolby Surround 7.1

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1