Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
Directed by Henry Joost
In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.
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Not one to let a lucrative business rest, Wayans, along with co-writer Rick Alvarez and director Michael Tiddes, tackle the latest current hot fadsupernatural found-footage thrillers a 'la 2009's " Paranormal Activity "for raunch-laden yuks with "A Haunted House."
Seven weeks after the release of Scary Movie 5 we have A Haunted House, a faithful but rarely amusing take on Paranormal Activity (and, when they exhaust found footage/reality TV, The Exorcist ).
House takes its direct cues from the Paranormal Activity series, in which a couple are haunted by an unseen ghost.
Released to coincide with Marlon Wayans's stand-up tour in Australia, this latest, flatulence-flavoured swipe at Paranormal Activity and The Devil Inside, among other titles, offers nothing that its cousin Scary Movie V did so dreadfully barely a month ago.
The movie should have taken a more scattershot approach and not just satirize one film (“Paranormal Activity”).
Ripping off films like The Devil Inside, The Last Exorcism, Paranormal Activity, so on and so on, this Marlon Wayans vessel might dive to even lower depths than some of the shite films mentioned above.
Paramount Pictures referenced Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist in the trailer (a line that's not in final product), which is fitting considering the filmmakers capture a lot of the essence of the Steven Spielberg-produced haunter, only with a fraction of the budget.
After all, think of many of the greatest and most effective ones -- such as "The Exorcist," "Poltergeist," "The Shining," and "The Omen" -- and they all involve children who end up threatened by one sort or another of supernatural entities.
A bit of " Rosemary's Baby " here, " The Shining " there, " Poltergeist " there, not to mention some Japanese stuff, and, of course, "Blair Witch" itself, particularly at the end.
Imagine: The drone could meet something unthinkable in the sky or the treetops, or maybe just torment us with what’s off camera, the way Paranormal Activity 3 achieved real suspense just by putting a camcorder on an oscillating fan.
Similar to the surprising “Paranormal Activity 3” from a few years back, Wingard and Barrett find interesting and sometimes ingenious ways to incorporate new technology into the series without completely taking away from the spirit of the original.
Fumbling to examine hidden scars of the past, Shyamalan also doesn't really capitalize on the found-footage angle for tension, the oscillating camera in "Paranormal Activity 3" remaining one of the best ways that's been done.