Rated R, 95 minutesThe "Paranormal Activity" films, from noted horror film producers Oren Peli and Jason Blum, started out with a novel premise but have since milked the "found footage" genre to death, and now it feels so passe, and well, just not that scary anymore. Fans of the "Paranormal Activity" series will be disappointed with the sloppy, silly and needless "Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension," which will likely be the end of the series, unless it makes a dollar or two for its producers. Set in December of 2013 (and almost two years after the Marked Ones), The Fleeges family - father Ryan (Chris J. Murray), mother Emily (Brit Shaw) and their young daughter Leila (Ivy George) - move into a house and discover a video camera and a box of tapes in the garage. When they look through the camera's lens, they begin to see the paranormal activity happening around them - including the re-emergence of young Kristi and Katie. Directed by Gregory Plotkin, "Ghost Dimension" is the worst in the "Paranormal Activity," which is unfortunate for what started as a phenomenon has to end on such a bad note. It tries too hard to tie up loose ends, has an exceedingly dumb last act (time travel - huh?) and fans expecting to see the adult Katie (Katie Featherston), will be very, very disappointed. The lackluster spin-off 2014 movie "The Marked Ones" veered off from the series, and while this returns to the original story, "Ghost Dimension" feels so unnecessary and is simply not as funny or as scary as the other "PA" films, which have admittedly made their producers very, very wealthy. I wanted to give this last one a chance and there are a few jumps, but to get some real scares, I'd rent the much more chilling first "Paranormal Activity," which still creeps me out to this day.
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