Ryan and Emily movie into a new house with daughter Leila. Ryan's annoying brother Mike turns up and behaves annoyingly. Ryan finds a huge old videocamera and a bunch of mysterious tapes which feature Katie and Kristi from the earlier films: they seem to be observing the present day from the past. Mysterious phenomena start happening, including manifestations and Leila making friends with invisible Toby. Things move towards a climax...
This is reportedly the final Paranormal Activity movie. It was said that it would provide answers. Well, I suppose it does, after a fashion, but there are still a lot left unanswered as it reaches a fairly unsatisfying conclusion. It's the sort of conclusion which seems to be set up for a sequel...
The little girl is great, and it is pleasing to finally see some manifestations. Conversely, this movie doesn't have anything like the creeping dread of some of the earlier entries. There is, as usual, plenty of creeping and walking and running around a darkened house, and not erasing the doorway of drawn symbols, and swearing, but often very little justification for camera use. Having said that, the use of 3D – as a kind of accidental camera fault/manifestation when something supernatural is going on – is one of the most creative, if somewhat limited, uses of 3D since the current spate of 3D movies started.
This is reportedly the final Paranormal Activity movie. It was said that it would provide answers. Well, I suppose it does, after a fashion, but there are still a lot left unanswered as it reaches a fairly unsatisfying conclusion. It's the sort of conclusion which seems to be set up for a sequel...
The little girl is great, and it is pleasing to finally see some manifestations. Conversely, this movie doesn't have anything like the creeping dread of some of the earlier entries. There is, as usual, plenty of creeping and walking and running around a darkened house, and not erasing the doorway of drawn symbols, and swearing, but often very little justification for camera use. Having said that, the use of 3D – as a kind of accidental camera fault/manifestation when something supernatural is going on – is one of the most creative, if somewhat limited, uses of 3D since the current spate of 3D movies started.