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GRADE: D
Video •Somebody has got to stop finding these lost videotapes.
Yet again, things go bump in the night in "Paranormal Activity 3," the latest chapter in the low-budget, high-box-office series in which we see an American family in a haunted house through videotaped "found footage."
Here, it's a prequel, but the wash-rinse-and-repeat cycle of frights is the same as the other movies. It also suffers from the same lagging pacing of 85 minutes of banal home videos, punctuated by a 2-minute climax.
The Blu-ray and DVD include little extras, save for more "lost footage" (deleted scenes). But a making-of feature certainly would have revealed nothing more except that creative thought is not necessary to make these movies.
Vince Horiuchi