There's an adage when it comes to horror movies that states that the more you see the monster, the less frightening it becomes. After all, part of the reason that it's scary in the first place is because of the mystery surrounding it. You don't know what it can do, you don't know why it's acting this way, you don't know when or where it could pop up, and so on. Like them or not, the Paranormal Activity movies always have, at the very least, tried to keep their ghosts/demons/whatever at least somewhat under wraps, even despite the ever-expanding and ultimately confusing mythology that the series has, for some reason, decided to try to have. It might come as a surprise, then, that the newest one, subtitled The Ghost Dimension, exists to show us exactly what's been haunting our various families, tell us precisely why, and remove any and all mystery from the series. The reason, I suppose, is because this is the promised finale to the Paranormal Activity franchise, although that's a hard claim to believe. My point is this, though: by …show more content…
Horror movies often feature some of humanity's least intelligent, because that's convenient - and, at times, a necessity, for the plot. The Ghost Dimension takes that to another level. They're not only stupid, but they're annoying, too. Leila's parents (Chris J. Murray and Brit Shaw) seemingly don't know how to react properly to anything. The father's brother (Dan Gill) comes to stay with them for some reason and is even more of an annoyance. For some reason, there's an "Aunt" (Olivia Taylor Dudley) also hanging around, although she disappears for so much of the second act that I wondered if she was killed off-screen. Sadly not. If you're wondering why I'm not using the character names, it's because I can't remember them, and they're not so much "characters" as they are placeholders, existing to kill time until the demon comes to eat their faces, or whatever it is demons in human form