Well having heard about Paranormal Activity 3 I thought – “Oh no, 2 has come out and I missed it….”
I was more upset because I just loved the first one sooooo much I was busting to see what rubbish this instalment was laced with…

I was a little surprised!

Gee someone had sat down and actually given this some thought… Although, the whole movie is again based upon a spook ( don’t like saying the “D” word ) that just loves to be in the movies – how odd! Or , hmmm well it wouldn’t work otherwise!

This time the good ole Security Cameras come to the rescue. And not just the odd camera here and there – the whole house is decked out….Even the bedroom?

Now I watched 3 just after this so I am in danger of making some cross references and getting a little mixed up so please don’t slaughter me for that… Speaking of which… Our naughty Spook isn’t so nice in the end…

Ok the story line in brief, which kind of gave this a little meat to it and I’m thinking trying to give some substance to the first one what was just… strange!

Anyway, we are back in the past… As really , after the first one, there isn’t much future…So we are in Kate (Katies)  Sisters place Kristie was it? Correct me if I’ve got that wrong.. Anyway The Other “K” and her bloke have just had a kid recently and it turns out that Small Boys are what Mr Spook is after…. Which in the good ole way of PAx the saga, is that everyone kind of works out – sooner or later depending upon their IQ – that everything isn’t all right and then don’t do alot about it or just do something silly.

I’m not going to ruin this instalment of Horror as it’s actually worthy of watching if you do want a good ole scare… The things with these movies are that its more of what happens after you’ve watched it that can be scary… Although I didn’t have any nightmares, there are some good moments which are enforced by the fact we kind of discover why it’s happening, unlike in the first one.

The other clever aspect is that the end ties in with the happenings of the first movie. Now I know there were a few endings out there and I’m not quite sure that the one I saw when Micah ( the guy always cops it… ) and Kate both end up in a non breathing state… But still, in the vein of everything else that happens, it’s not a huge stretch to accept ( as much as you can with a little imagination ) what happens in the ending…

Or is it?

Rating

Hmm I might break a habit here and give this a 8/10 only because they gave it a “story” that gave you something to prop up the goings on upon and it had some good scary bits. Plus it tried to tie in the first one…

But in way you can’t help but feel that this version wasn’t a “Oh we’re sorry – the first one sucked and we’ll try to rescue it to explain it to folk” which I think they did.

You won’t miss a whole lot by not seeing the first one… This one stands on it’s own and it’s probably better to not see the others at all… ( including the 3rd one ).

Watch this with a friend!

Cheers

Noah