Through security cams, GoPros, laptop cameras, and Betamax, ghosts got caught on candid camera. The post- Blair Witch haunted house thrillers played with clever camera work and eventual universe-building, looking for any reason for doofuses to keep recording in the face of a malevolent presence. It’s easy to forget the film’s humble origins, Halloween hype, and eventual wearing out of its welcome to theaters, even if that all happened over the past six years. In our latest edition, Blake Goble and Dominick Suzanne-Mayer sat down for delirious amounts of spooks, spectres, and jump scares courtesy of the Paranormal Activity franchise.ĭom and Blake got together one night to watch all the Paranormal Activity films in anticipation of Paramount’s upcoming Paranormal Activity: The Search for a Solid Release Date (aka The Ghost Dimension ). "Paranormal Activity" could have remained this singular piece of horror, but by relegating its other endings in favor of one with a loose end, it allowed subsequent films to try out new ideas like this, whether they actually worked or not.Marathon is a recurring feature in which our writers endure a grueling face-off with a franchise or collection of work in a single sitting and report back on the experience. But then again, introducing time travel to a format that wants you to believe what you're seeing is real comes with its own set of complications.
But surely Katie was still possessed by the demon, so we end up with a clever nod to the first film that doesn't entirely come together. The ending to "The Marked Ones" tries to say that the reason Katie snapped is due to the sudden presence of a stranger in her home in the middle of the night. Hector runs as Katie then proceeds to stab Micah in the chest in the kitchen. Confused by what's happening, Hector slowly approaches Katie to ask her where he is, only to send her screaming for Micah. For the first time, we get to see what happened downstairs on that fateful night. It doesn't take long before we realize that we're in Katie's house right before she kills Micah. Scared for his life, Hector (Jorge Diaz) runs inside a closet before emerging on the other side in a completely different location. The lead characters of "The Marked Ones" end up at the grandmother's home and are attacked by the members of the demon cult. But it doesn't matter because the possessed Katie comes back and kills Kristi and her husband before leaving with Hunter into the night. Therefore, the events of the first "Paranormal Activity" are set into motion. In the second film, however, it's revealed that because Kristi gave birth to Hunter, she is the focus of the demonic haunting, and the only way to get rid of "Tobi" is to pass it on to Katie.
Had "Paranormal Activity" been a one-and-done experience, the most we would have gathered is that this entity that's haunting Katie would have been targeting her alone. In the second film, Kristi gives birth to Hunter (Jackson Xenia Prieto), who turns out to be the first male born into the family in ages. The basic gist of the first trilogy is that when they were younger, Katie and Kristi were unknowingly inducted into a cult by their grandmother, who offered them both to "Tobi" at a young age to eventually provide him with a male heir to inhabit his body. And then you have "Paranormal Activity 3," which goes all the way back to 1988 to show Katie and Kristi's childhood, when the hauntings first began. "Paranormal Activity 2" came as a surprise because it slowly revealed itself to be a prequel, focused on Katie's sister Kristi (Sprague Grayden) and her family, before showing what happened to Katie after the events of the first film. The fact that "Paranormal Activity" was able to keep things running that long, before truly falling flat on its face with a lazy attempt at 3-D found footage ( "Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension"), is kind of impressive.
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