• Starring: Katie Featherston
  • Summary: The third installment of the Paranormal Activity follows Katie and Kristi in the 80s during their first encounter with the evil kind.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 25
  2. Negative: 3 out of 25
  1. Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    Oct 19, 2011
    91
    The bottom line, for me, is this: I don't scare easily at horror films, but I watched Paranormal Activity 3 in a state of high anxiety.
  2. Reviewed by: A. A. Dowd
    Oct 21, 2011
    60
    Like its predecessors, Paranormal Activity 3 demands to be seen with a crowd: Being able to hear outbursts of nervous laughter and irrepressible panic ripple through a packed house is the reason movies like this exist.
  3. Reviewed by: Mark Jenkins
    Oct 21, 2011
    38
    Paranormal Activity 3 just uses new technology to deliver the same old ghosts-and-goblins hokum.

See all 25 Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 51
  2. Negative: 14 out of 51
  1. Most horror movies are a bore. They try to frighten the audience with blood and guts and unstoppable killing machines. The Paranormal Activity series has taken the low-tech "bump in the night" approach and made it work for three films. While I enjoyed it, I believe this is the weakest of the three. While it is gifted at building tension it doesn't provide as satisfying a payoff as the two previous films. The story also gives very little attention to the reason behind the mayhem. I would have preferred a more complete explanation for all the bumps in the night. Even with these complaints, Paranormal Activity 3 is far better than any of the Saw films and 99 percent of all the other so-called horror flicks. That's why I gave it a 7. Expand
    • 4 of 4 users said yes
  2. Paranormal Activity 3 is somewhat bit of a letdown but the last fifteen minutes of the film actually did leave me shaking. It's what we've seen from the past two films but in different scenes. Better than the first? Hell no. Better than the second? Probably not. Is it worth it? Yes. Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  3. Ok im s sucker for reality based horror movies. When the 1st one came out, I could not sleep for a week. It was great. I love it when as movie has that much of a scare effect. The 2nd one came out and I was literally praying to god in the cinema to get me out of here, again loved it. The 3rd one I was like ...ok where are the scenes from the trailer. I am not lying people when I say the scariest scenes are in the TRAILER and not the MOVIE. The movie is missing approx 7-8 scenes. This is not acceptable and I feel like its a Marketing tactic to attract cinema seats to be sold and for us to buy the DVD. NOT GOOD Expand
    • 4 of 5 users said yes

See all 51 User Reviews

Trailers

Related Articles

  1. Fall Movie Preview: The 30 Most-Anticipated Films

    Fall Movie Preview: The 30 Most-Anticipated Films Image
    Published: September 6, 2011
    We preview the 30 top movies arriving this fall, from Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion" to George Clooney's "Ides of March." While you're at it, find release dates and descriptions for the other 60+ fall films, too.

Recommended Products

  1. 50/50 Image
  2. The Woman in Black Image
  3. Paranormal Activity 2 Image
  1. Metascore: 72
  2. Metascore: 67
  3. Metascore: 64
  4. Metascore: 62
  5. Metascore: 54
  6. Metascore: 52
  7. Metascore: 52
  8. Metascore: 46
  9. Metascore: 43
  10. Metascore: 39
  11. Metascore: 31
  12. Metascore: 22
  13. Metascore: 18
  14. Metascore: 16