BY CLAIRE OERTLY
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The Paranormal Activity movie series recently came out with its sixth film: The Ghost Dimension. The events through the storyline remained intact with the previous films, following the almost-exact plot line and providing a somewhat similar scary feel. When the movie released, many fans of the previous films were anticipating the drop and practically piled into theaters. The third one, however, received the most attention in its first week of releasing and brought in the most money overall the other films.The sixth movie also fills in holes left in the plot from previous movies. It explains the
unexplained horrors that many people were curious about and clears up any confusions with the characters. Pop outs seem to be a favorite of Oren Peli, the director of the films.

Throughout every single movie, he uses a plethora of jump scares and scary images to induce fear into viewers. In the sixth film, he actually shows the face of the demon in attempts to reel viewers in, but some, including myself, felt that kind of ruined the scariness of the demon through the rest of the
movie.

What I found to be intriguing was the fact that the demon was not always as powerful as he is currently, but he actually fed off of the negative emotions of the family and only got stronger with time. His shape enhanced as well, turning from a shadow into a full figured demon.The movie does not necessarily stay in one genre of scares either. It includes seeing into the future and uses filming of events to make it similar to the previous
movies.At one point, one of the children actually has to utilize the demon to see into the future while watching a home video. Turns out, the home video is actually a video of them in the exact moment that the child has to use the demon to see into the future.It is trippy and confusing, yet
interesting all in one.

Some parts of the film somewhat reminded me of a poltergeist type situation, like the vortex-ed face of the demon and the hole in the wall that turned out to be a portal. Peli used a lot of computer generated images throughout the film, such as the demon’s face and the vortex, and personally the movie would have been more horrific had the images been more realistic. Not that it was completely noticeable, it just would have added an even better feel to the film. In comparison to the other five films, the sixth movie was relatively different but not as scary as the others.The plot itself was interesting
but the graphics were not as realistic as expected. With this being the final chapter to the film series, there was not as much closure as I would have expected They did show the demon’s face, but it provided more scariness rather than closure. However, the holes that had been left in the long and complicated plot were practically all explained. It was fun watching and listening to the logic behind some of the unsolved mysteries of the plot lines in previous movies as well as reoccurring symbolism.