Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

If you liked the first two movies you will like this one. More of the same found camera footage. This story provides some background for the main sisters of the first two movies.

Probably the tightest of the three, in the sense that I felt there was less time wasted watching a quiet scene while anticipating movement paranormal activity.

Best story of the three also. Was pretty close to a normal narrative film which leads to the big problem: some of the camera work, or excuses to have a camera on, was stretched to the extreme.

But that's the price you pay with this contrivance.

Also, I'm not sure how, with the ending of this film, the events of one and two can take place. I know the sisters hint at their past in the second film, but this film ends with what appears to be nowhere to go.

Overall very enjoyable. The film did it's job, which was to make my wife jump. She did.

One other note - there were quite a few scenes we were expecting from the ad campaigns that were not in the film. Not sure if these were editing victims or purely filmed for audience reaction during the trailers and commercials.