Paranormal Activity 3

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 is a bore of a film and it makes little sense in any context of a trilogy. The general premise of the Paranormal Activity movies is that in a house, there are ghosts about, and one of the family members gets the bright idea to film different portions of the house so that paranormal activity can be caught on tape. What makes little sense to me is A) How we are expected to believe that three members of a distant family can all get the idea to tape the experiences. It would make sense for one film, but the shared knowledge is a contrivance. B) That if ghosts were in the house, they would parade about on tape. Despite this, I bought into PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 for the first few minutes and especially about the last fifteen. I would say that in this film, where the boyfriend of the mother of two girls films the goings-on, I liked about 20 minutes. The problem with the film is that we get long stretches of boredom where people sleep. There's a lot of expectations set up in the film. We expect that we are going to be frightened, but don't know when. Unfortunately though, scares come about every 15 minutes and for the rest of the time, we're bored. The film was directed by the same two men who directed 2010's CATFISH (which was a very good film). Little of that talent is on display in this film though, and its essentially a stupid piece of utter shit, using the children in the film for cheap scares in sadistic, gross scenes that, when long, grow ridiculous. That being said, the film is also very scary, but its just not well made and not thought out. It's a rehash, and for me, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 was interesting only in its novelty (for I have not seen either of the earlier films).
Paranormal Activity 3: ★★