Paranormal Activity: The Ultimate Chills Collection is a set that repackages the previous movies (some the discs are exactly the same) and unfortunately it’s the only way to get Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin on Blu-ray.
Paranormal Activity: The Ultimate Chills Collection
(2007-2021)
Genre(s): Horror, Suspense/Thriller, Supernatural
Paramount| R – 758 min. – $67.99 | October 11, 2022
Date Published: 10/18/2022 | Author: The Movieman
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THE MOVIES — 2½/5 |
| Paranormal Activity (2007) – After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially while they sleep.
Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) – Just as Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence beings terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare. Security cameras capture the torment, making every minute horrifyingly real. Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) – The cameras are on and recording the chilling moments when evil begins to terrorize young sisters Katie and Kristi for the first time. Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) – When Katie disappeared with her nephew Hunter, there were no survivors. Five years later she’s returned with a mysterious boy, ready to target new victims with her demonic rage. Now, a family’s young daughter will capture every one of the terrifying occurrences, beginning with her new neighbors’ arrival. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014) – Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very soul. Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (2015) – When a new family moves into Katie and Kristi’s former house, they discover a mysterious video camera that reveals the presence of an ancient evil that begins to terrorize their lives. Now, with their young daughter’s soul in danger, they must fight back against this demonic threat before becoming its next victims. Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021) – Margot is a documentary filmmaker looking to meet her long-lost mother and extended family in a secluded Amish community. She and her film crew soon realize the family that welcomes them into their home might be hiding a sinister secret. Quick Hit Review: I’ve mentioned before in past reviews, but when it comes to the ‘found footage’ style of filmmaking, I’m not a fan as I find most of them to be tedious and anything but scary and worse, it’s just uninteresting. And that’s the case with the Paranormal Activity franchise which not a single one really captured my attention and I generally find downright dull with paper-thin characters whose well-beings I couldn’t care less about. |
SPECIAL FEATURES – 3¾/5 |
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This 7-film set, along with a bonus documentary, has each movie in its own HD slim case, all sliding into an outer box. Included is a window decal with “This House is monitored by Paranormal Activity”. From what I can tell, each disc is the same as the original releases. Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity 2
Paranormal Activity 3
Paranormal Activity 4
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin
Given none of these movies got a making-of featurette or interviews, this set includes Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity () is a feature-length documentary has cast and crew interviews, discussing the franchise’s surprising box office success and the reigniting the found footage subgenre. For better or worse, as much as I don’t really care for any of these movies, no denying it does have a fan base. |
VIDEO, AUDIO |
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All seven movies are presented with a 16×9 enhanced widescreen aspect ratio and given 1080p high-definition transfers. Most of these movies come with a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track (the first film was TrueHD 5.1) and these are adequate I suppose, some depth is on display once the entity makes crashing noises in the homes. |
OVERALL — 2½/5 |
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Paranormal Activity: The Ultimate Chills Collection is a set that repackages the previous movies (some the discs are exactly the same) and unfortunately at the time of this writing, it’s the only way to get Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin on Blu-ray. It’s a nice looking box at least even if I’m not a fan of the movies themselves. |
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