Film Review – Paranormal Activity 3

It’s the trend these days to whip a franchise back to the beginning when moving forward is no longer a viable creative direction. It’s this alleged “freshening” treatment that’s been dispiriting to watch, though the “Paranormal Activity” series is unique in that its third installment is actually a second prequel to the 2009 no-budget blockbuster. “Paranormal Activity 3” leaps back even further in time to survey the origins of demonic happenings and parental disposal, returning to an era of crude surveillance equipment and child endangerment. Sadly, the time machine treatment does nothing to reenergize the formula, with this latest ghostly rampage practically a shot-for-shot remake of the previous pictures. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com