Review of Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015) by Quincytheodore — 29 Oct 2015

Overused ancient stuffs, now with glitches and cheap 3D as gimmicks.

The overwhelming flaws date back years ago from the last three or four movies. Its narrative is a poorly told jumbled mess, and with this other dimensional gibberish, it's not getting better. The new activity it tries to sell is nothing more than superficial effect heavily borrowed from recent Poltergeist movie. For all the weak elements, the worst issue is it's simply not scary.

Another movie another family. As expected the focus is with the child, we've seen this plot so many times in this year alone. The daughter is speaking with some sort of entity while the family spends half the movie arguing about how impossible it is, despite finding literally stash of evidences of strange occurrences.

It has a few nifty twists with more usages to the tapes, but even this gets old fast. The rest of videos are rehearsed falling objects, out of focus camera shots and conveniently placed glitches. There's barely any sense of investment even as the movie tries so hard to set the child as sympathy bait.

It all comes down to typical lines, "Who are you talking to, dear?" for almost the entire movie. Not to mention, just as the plot looks like it's moving the conversations are edited out to push another tired living room shots as whatever entity residing there fools around with the family.

Also, for some reason, it uses nauseating filter and bad contrast as supposed supernatural effect. It's not a good idea to fiddle with perspective, especially for a found footage movie. Without spoiling anything, the entity apparition is nothing to be excited about. The apparition is as bad, if not worse, than the tedious wait.

This is one of rare instances where I was drowsy when watching a movie, a feat that even its predecessors or other found footage films failed to do. There's no thrill in this or whatever dimension the movie spawns from.