Paranormal Activity 3 is a 2011 American supernatural horror film, directed by Henry Joost and Ariel
Schulman. It is the third film of the Paranormal Activity
series and serves as a prequel, set 18 years prior to the events of the first two
films.
Synopsis
Paranormal Activity 3
is set in 1988 when sisters Kristi and Katie are young (5 and 9, respectively).
It is meant to chronicle the events that the girls cannot fully remember in the
first two films – namely the demonic entity first coming to haunt them. The
girls’ mom has a boyfriend, Dennis, who begins to film the phenomenon happening
in their home. The mom, Julie, has decided not to have any more kids – much to
the chagrin of her mother (the girls’ grandmother), Lois. A mysterious symbol
drawn on a crawl space ceiling in the girls’ room leads Dennis to a book about
a coven of witches in the 1930s who served demons by brain-washing girls of
child-bearing age into having sons for the demon to collect, before wiping away
the child-bearer’s memory of the event. Dennis tries to show this explanation
to Julie, but she will not buy it.
The demon makes a bond
with Kristi, in particular (which she refers to as her friend “Toby”). After
repeated attacks, Kristi eventually promises to do the demon’s bidding in order
to save her sister from harm. Kristi begs her mom to take them from the house
to grandma’s house (apparently, the demon’s request), but Julie, still in
denial, refuses. For “motivation,” the demon then tears apart the kitchen in
front of Julie, which sends her running off to grandma’s house with the kids.
Thinking they are finally safe, Julie awakens in the night to the sound of cars
pulling up to Lois’ home. It is then revealed that Lois is part of the coven of
witches from the ’30s that Dennis saw in the book, and that she serves the
demon terrorizing them (she had the same symbol hidden on her wall that the
demon drew on the crawl space ceiling). Gathered with the rest of her coven,
Lois watches as the demon kills Julie and Dennis. She then leads her
granddaughters up the stairs to an unknown fate, with the demon in tow.
Analysis
The purpose of Dogme 95 created is to modeling the reality
effect. So the group of people come out with the 10 rules so that it create the
realistic of the movie.
In this Paranormal Activity 3 they follow the rules as in:
·
Rule 1
The whole shooting process done on location. They did
not shoot any of the scene in studio. On the other hand, the props and sets not
brought in.
·
Rule 2
The sound in Paranormal Activity 3 are produced together with the image on the
spot. The whole movie does not have any background music which it fits the Rule
2 in Dogme 95.
·
Rule 3
There are 3 types of camera in this movie which is
the static camera in the children’s bedroom and parents’ bedroom, a oscillating fan camera in the kitchen and handheld camera by Dennis. Basically,
there is a lot of handheld scene throughout the movie.
·
Rule 4
The whole film is in color an there is no any special lighting being
done except the lighting of the environment.
·
Rule 5
There is no any optical work and filters are use in this film.
·
Rule 7
It takes place and happening now. And the whole story is set on 1988
without any flashback scene.
·
Rule 9
Due to there is few type cameras is used, there are in video format and
35mm is used.
The rule that never follow according to Dogme rules are:
·
Rule 6
This film against this rule because Dennis was killed in the end of the
film.
·
Rule 8
This film does have genre which is horror. Thomas
Vinterberg, the first Dogme 95 director mentions: "I thought a lot about
this genre Rule. And I found it a bad Rule, actually. Because it's very
difficult to avoid genre. And somehow it's not very creative, because it's
unspecific... not being able to make a genre, or not being allowed to have 'taste'
is, in a way, impossible. "
·
Rule 10
Henry Joost and Ariel
Schulman is credited in the end of the movie. So they also against
the rule.
