I know, technically young Katie (Chloe Csengery) isn’t a ghost, but she also sort of is, at least within the context of Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension. She is a paranormal entity from the past who is haunting the present through a magical videotape. And what courtesy she has, to say “bless you” when someone sneezes. If I was the little sneezing girl’s father, I’d be happy to let my kid inter-dimensionally play with this new friend. So what if the girl from the tape influences my daughter to say “Bloody Mary” backwards over and over? It’s better than some of the inappropriate things my childhood friends and siblings influenced me to say when I was little.
The Ghost Dimension, which has been declared the final installment of the Paranormal Activity franchise, introduces us to a new family, the Fleeges, who move into the house previously seen in Paranormal Activity 4 as the home of the Nelsons. The dad (Chris J. Murray) finds a bunch of VHS tapes and as seen in the trailer discovers that the kids in those tapes can hear and communicate with the people watching them. Creepy? Or fun? Seems like the guy could go on the road with this parlor trick. If the one kid and her demonic pals don’t kill him first. Or at least possess his own little girl (Ivy George).
Let’s not forget that the one kid is also now grown up in the real world (played again by Katie Featherston) and still possessed and still on the loose. And if you’re still confused about what’s been going on with her and other characters and things since the first Paranormal Activity movie came out in 2009 (and made its first festival appearance in 2007), you’re in luck because producers Jason Blum and Oren Peli promise us that this sequel will close out the franchise with all our questions answered, every secret revealed.
They also promise this will be totally unlike the previous installments, as some of it will be in 3D — all the video camera footage, specifically. Yet another neat parlor trick, one that’s hopefully as effective as the scares in the first movie. The franchise is already getting a little stale, despite Blum’s recent statement that he’d rather not “grind this horror franchise into the ground.”
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension is the feature directorial debut of the franchise’s regular editor, Gregory Plotkin, and it hits theaters on October 23rd.
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