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Paranormal Activity 3

Year:
Duration:
83 min | 94 min (unrated director's cut)
Genres:
Horror
IMDB rate:
5.9
Director:
Henry Joost
Awards:
1 win & 4 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2011-10-21
Filming Locations: USA
Earnings
Budget: $5,000,000
Opening Weekend: $52,568,183 (USA) (23 October 2011)
Gross: $104,007,828 (USA) (1 January 2012)
Cast
Actor
Character
Lauren Bittner
Julie
Christopher Nicholas Smith
Dennis
Chloe Csengery
Katie
Jessica Tyler Brown
Kristi
Hallie Foote
Grandma Lois
Dustin Ingram
Randy Rosen
Johanna Braddy
Lisa
Katie Featherston
Adult Katie
Brian Boland
Daniel
Sprague Grayden
Adult Kristi
William Juan Prieto
Hunter
Jackson Xenia Prieto
Hunter
Paitoon Cheng
Ida
Eddie Medrano
Party Magician
Rebecca Delgado Smith
Crying Bridesmaid
Bailey Michelle Brown
Bailey
Tucker Brown
Tucker
Jessica Berger
Kid
Hayden Sosa
Kid
Asher Rowland
Kid
Saige Gernhauser
Kid
Meredith Eaton
Woman
Bonita Friedericy
Dorothy Wolfe
Marilyn Alex
Creepy Lady
Jackie Benoit
Creepy Lady
Jody Carter
Creepy Lady
Maria Olsen
Creepy Lady
Karen Teliha
Creepy Lady
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Trivia
In the static at the end of the movie, there is a frame that shows Dennis' and Julie's bed on fire. This is presumably the start of the house fire that is referred to in both Paranormal Activity (2007) and Paranormal Activity 2 (2010).
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The highest grossing film in the Paranormal Activity series.
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Towards the beginning of the film, Julie takes a picture of young Katie standing in the driveway shortly before a group picture is taken. The photo being taken appears in both Paranormal Activity and Paranormal Activity 2 as an indication that the demon has started haunting them.
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Goofs
When Dennis is talking to Kristi after watching the first night's tape, she says, "He's my friend," but it doesn't match the movement of her lips.
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In the film Julie talks about Virgin Mary on a slice of toast, this famously happened in the late 1990's.
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While the film takes place in 1988, the home video tapes are presented in wide screen and high-definition quality. However, this is a necessary and deliberate change on the part of the crew, and not an error. Producing a movie with "authentic" quality based on the equipment that existed back then would make a horrible quality for it to be seen in theaters and the movie would be unusable to most theaters.
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Quotes
Randy Rosen: She got blown in the face!
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Kristi: Come on Toby.
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Faq
Q
Why does Julie refuse to watch the footage or give credit to what Dennis and her children tell her?
A
Julie does not say why she reacts the way she does in the film and we can only theorize on her motives. The first easy explanation could be that Julie is obtuse. Another explanation however could be that Julie had similar experiences in her own childhood and refuses to let it happen again, following the idea that if you ignore it completely, it will eventually go away. Her reluctance to believe might also be due to her being brainwashed as a child.
Q
What does the entity want from Kristi?
A
It's never explained in the film, but there are some strong hints. The sequence that would appear to hold the answer is intentionally edited, cutting away from Dennis each time he begins to elaborate upon something he's learned in his research. What the audience does find out is that (1) there existed a "coven" of women in the 1920s who summoned demons, (2) after summoning a demon the women would wait until a daughter of the coven had reached child-bearing age. The girl would be brainwashed and "remember nothing," though what event(s) were being wiped out is not explained, and (3) these events all lead up to the birth of a male child. In the girls' bedroom Julie tells her mother she doesn't want more kids. The grandmother replies with "but you always wanted a boy." Basically, the grandmother (a witch) has made some kind of deal with a demon to allow it to marry a girl in the family and have a demon-possessed male child. It is even possible that grandma Lois herself was once married to the demon, but since she had not produced a male child, Julie became the next 'bride'. Since Julie doesn't plan to have a boy anymore, the demon and the grandmother set their sights on the next generation (Kristi). In Paranormal Activity and Paranormal Activity 2, Kristi and Katie indeed seem to have no memory of the ritual and the death of Dennis. It can be surmised that Kirstie was secretly married to 'Toby', and both girls brainwashed to forget about this (although the girls both remember childhood memories of being haunted). When Kristi got a husband and a son years later, the demon came back to claim his bride (Kristie) and collect the boy (Paranormal Activity 2). However, Kristie's husband managed to exorcise the demon from Kristie, and transfer it to Katie (Paranormal Activity). Eventually, the demon got its way when a possessed Katie killed Kristie and her husband, and walked away with their son.
Q
What scenes from the trailer are not in the movie?
A
The movie differs significantly from the full length trailer and many of the tv spots. Scenes that actually make it into the movie include Randy saying you have to record this, Julie hanging at the top of the stairs, scenes from the initial birthday party, and some scenes of Kristi talking to the demon off-screen. Scenes that were cut include the girls playing the Bloody Mary, the girls huddling in the kitchen, the girls knocking on the closet door, the mother being flung onto the bed, the house on fire, any scene with the priest, the scribbles all over the storage space walls, Kristi throwing water on the demon and it flinging furniture around in front of the mother, the mother watching footage of Kristi walking along the balcony railing, jumping off, then running back up the stairs.
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