Another Halloween season, another Paranormal Activity. These horror serials just never seem to stop. When one finally dies out (Saw), another takes over. We can definitely count on a Paranormal Activity 4 next October, as this one is apparently doing quite well in the box office in the opening weekend.
In this case, we see a prequel to a prequel, taking us back to when the two sisters are children and we witness the start of it all. Well, the start of it all for them anyways, as we find that this can go back even further. And, despite a few minor areas of non-believability, namely as the insistence that the male lead carry a camera around in moments of "drop-everything-and-run" sheer terror (what plagued the first movie as well), the crystal clear 1988-era home video film quality, and the difference in mindset of the Katie of the end of this movie and the Katie of the first movie, we see pretty much experience the same in this film: tense brief sightings and movements here and there inside an upper-middle class San Diego home, always in the wee hours of the morning, amidst reels of "found footage", and with brutal results at the end. And, while this one certainly plays that tension just as well as the other two films for the audience, it is starting to get a bit redundant already having been through it twice before. Certainly Hollywood doesn't want to mess with a formula that is working for them and the audience at this time, but it's time for this to move forward now, both what we see, and in chronological plot, namely what in heck did happen to Katie after the events of the first movie, or this series will go downhill fast in viewership interest, a.k.a. the Saw series.
Oct 22, 2011 @ 21:32:21
I watched one of the saws.. Ugh.. Horrible. 
