Showing posts with label Paranormal Activity 3. Show all posts
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'Paranormal Activity 3' scares by the numbers, critics say



Combining low budget, found footage-styling the 1999 "Blair Witch Project" in the eyes of uber-violent franchise "Saw" movies, "Paranormal Activity" reports third series of his film on Friday, led by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, known for 2010 documentary-with-a-star "catfish". critical consensus on "Paranormal Activity 3," says the film follows a familiar, but still manages to offer wounds and entertainment.

In a review for The Times, Mark Olsen says that "Paranormal Activity 3" is "so clear now, the film brutally aware of the series." Throughout the film, Olsen writes, "there is a spirit of invention and found.. The stagnation of feeling for the characters used (and scary) inside and outside shots of the colorful and fun, making the earthquake and the tremors affected giddier" , he added: "All this proves that Joost and Schulman movies are not real and not just artists Cascades, more compelling in a clearly fictional film that claims to be the reality of a documentary authenticity uncertain."

Richard Corliss in Time magazine, Joost and Schulman said "good choice to expand the franchise." He writes: "filmmakers throw in some fear of the poor: Mom in a monster mask, a babysitter laid before a camera, but the rest is pretty cool pinball machine .." Corliss noted that a number of channels classic horror film, and that "the nagging question that rumbles in every haunted house movie -? Why not just leave -. takes a long workout before the end of the graceful, shivering resolved"

The Boston Globe Ty Burr said that in addition to a new device that includes a swiveling fan ("It is thick at the base. And it works.") "," Paranormal Activity 3 is almost identical, and equally strangely effective, two movies in the alternation its weak "Boo!" tactics and really scary. "Burr and commends Chloe Csengery Jessica Tyler Brown, playing the young girls who grow up to be the protagonists of the first two" movies Paranormal "activity.

Claudia Puig, USA Today written, said the new film "ever goes off the rails, but also offers more laughs and a bit more character development than the previous payments." Puig said the film is less claustrophobic and a large font, and it also highlights the camera swiveling. But Puig wrote, "the freshness of the first film is gone as he has a degree of terror."

Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips, who called "Paranormal Activity" movies "bad" and "designed for single use only, one time use," admits that "they work." The last film, Phillips writes: "Like his predecessors joke" found footage "of growing new blood and terror slowly and sticks to you only when you need something to happen." Phillips is the central conceit of the series to be more "ridiculous" but said: ". I was afraid of delectable results every time"

Public scares most useful surprises, "Paranormal Activity 3" may be just the ticket.

Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/10/paranormal-activity-3-movie-reviews-critics.html

 

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