Paranormal Activity
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In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home
Plot
In 2005, Katie delivers a box of old videotapes to her pregnant sister Kristi, and her husband Daniel, which holds footage of young Katie and Kristi with their mother, Julie, and her boyfriend Dennis. A year later, Kristi and Daniel's house is ransacked and the tapes are missing.
In 1988, in their house in Santa Rosa, California, Kristi begins interacting with an "imaginary" friend named Toby. Dennis notices that since Kristi's friend appeared, strange things have been happening around the house. Dennis and Julie try to make a sex tape, but are interrupted by an earthquake. The camera shows dust fall from the ceiling and land onto an invisible figure in the room. While reviewing the footage, Dennis notices the strange incident. His friend Randy suggests that Dennis place cameras throughout the house to capture any other incidents. That night in the girls' bedroom, Kristi wakes up and talks to someone off-camera. When Dennis questions her the following day, Kristi tells him it was Toby. After more strange occurrences, Dennis discovers a strange symbol in the girls' closet, and later finds the same symbol in a book about demonology.
When Kristi becomes ill, Julie and Dennis take her to the hospital. Katie is left home with Randy, and they play Bloody Mary in the girls' bathroom. When nothing happens, Katie insists they try again. Randy is attacked and discovers a large scratch on his torso. They try to leave the bathroom but a black figure moves past the door. The second time they try to leave, furniture is violently flung across the room. After Julie and Dennis return, Randy hurriedly leaves, stating that whatever they're dealing with is dangerous. Dennis tells Julie that the symbol belonged to a witches' coven that brainwashed girls of child-bearing age into having sons, forcing them to give up their sons; they would not remember anything afterward. Julie dismisses his claim, instead arguing with Dennis.
The invisible demon terrorizes Katie and Kristi, harming Katie until Kristi agrees to do what it asks. The next day, Kristi asks her mother to take them to her grandmother Lois's house in Moorpark, California, but she refuses. After Julie encounters frightening activity herself, she agrees to go to Lois's home. Dennis sets up another camera in their new bedroom. At 1am, they are awoken and hear disturbances. Julie goes to investigate; when she fails to return, Dennis goes to look for her. He calls for Julie and the girls but there is apparently no one there. Downstairs, Dennis notices a human silhouette behind a curtain, but when he looks there is no one present. He finds Satanic imagery on the walls, including the symbol from the girls' room, which had been concealed behind paintings. Dennis enters the garage and discovers several women, including Lois, all dressed in black. He flees back to the house, with the women in slow pursuit. In the house, he finds Julie at the top of the stairs. As he approaches, he sees that her limp body is levitating above the floor. Her body is thrown at Dennis, knocking him down the stairs. He gets up and sees Kristi, then hides with her in a closet. Something growls and bangs on the door, but eventually leaves.
Dennis and Kristi leave the closet and walk into the kitchen. In the window, Dennis sees the women outside in the garden, circling around a bonfire. They find Katie crying by the stairs near Julie's body. Dennis approaches Katie from behind, and when he places his hand on her shoulder, Katie turns around and unleashes a demonic scream that throws him to the other side of the room, injuring his leg. Katie flees and Dennis tries to crawl toward Julie's body. Lois stands in his way, and Dennis's body is suddenly violently contorted, killing him. Lois then beckons to Kristi and Katie. As they head upstairs together, Kristi calls for Toby. The camera goes static and then cuts to black
official trailer
Five Scenes From the ‘Paranormal Activity 3′ Trailers That Weren’t in the Movie
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
Best 5 sense the warn't in the movie
Bloody Mary
The best scare in the first "Paranormal Activity 3" trailer from the summer was sisters Katie and Kristi hanging out in their bathroom recording themselves as they play the "Bloody Mary" game, which requires them repeating the name three times to make the spectral presence appear. When the girls do it, nothing happens
watch bloody marry - original
The Knocking Game
The more recent trailer opens with Dennis videotaping the girls as they do what they call "The Knocking Game": They knock on the mirrored bedroom closet doors and then wait a few moments. Then, a mysterious knock seems to echo in response out of nowhere. When Dennis tells her it's a cool trick, Kristi (who is communicating with the phantom figure Toby) tells him, "It's not a trick
The Man in the Glasses
The recent trailer includes a brief scene where a guy in glasses and a jacket (perhaps a psychic?) informs Julie, "This is not simply about Kristi. This is connected to your side of the family. He definitely knows about--" and then his head is violently slammed into the kitchen table. Uh oh, looks like Toby isn't happy with this guy
He's standing right next to you
In the movie, Julie has a talk with her daughter Kristi about her imaginary friend, who she says is standing right next to Julie. The moment freaks you out in the film, but the trailer adds an extra wrinkle: Kristi throws a glass of water at Toby, who sends the water shooting in another direction. Pretty cool, but the finished film uses this trick at a different time: during the earthquake when dust forms an outline of Toby for a moment.
We're getting out of here
One of our favorite things about "Paranormal Activity 3" is that it answers a nagging question from the first two films: Why don't they just get the heck out of the house? We see how well that works out in the new movie, but in the trailer there's a moment where a clearly freaked-out, fed-up Julie tells Dennis that she just wants to get out of the house and drive away. Toby has other ideas, though, yanking her across the hallway and throwing her back into her bedroom. That doesn't happen in the film, but that darn demon does plenty of other horrible things to that poor mom by the time the film's over
However, almost 50 per cent of the footage in the TV spots is not in the final film. According to Inside Pulse, the production team behind Paranormal Activity 3 had enough leftover footage to compile two completely different versions of the same movie, some of which they used to create the TV spots and theatrical trailer
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