The **Paranormal Activity **franchise, an object lesson in low budget/high return moviemaking, has slowly dipped at the box office from its glory early days. With those diminishing returns in mind, **Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension **promises to wrap up the Bloody Mary saga in a final splurge of shiver-inducing horrors. The film’s first trailer has landed and you can view it below.
The family enduring the scares this time are Ryan, Emily, their daughter Leila, and Ryan's younger brother Mike. Another daughter has died a year previous to the film, which sounds significant. The location is Palo Alto, where the clan has just moved from New York, so that video game designer Ryan can start his new job.
Emily, meanwhile, is an Earth mother type who does yoga, while Leila is described as a tomboyish combination of her big-kid dad and more mature mom. There's no explanation why Uncle Mike lives with them, but he's "essentially a less fit, less funky" version of his brother. We'll have to wait and see how much of that remains in the final version. Katie Featherstone returns in demonic guise.
Franchise veteran Gregory Plotkin is directing this one. It’ll be creepy eerily into UK cinemas later this year before leaping out from behind the pick ’n’ mix.