this film
was utter shi*
shareThat's why you don't select the series 'editor' to be the director...
Chris Sanders was such a fool, give their 'creation' to the guy that just makes the finishing touches? the editing was shi* too and felt more like a hollywood flick, I've personally considered these films to resemble something that actually happened and was caught on tape, but this failed to keep that feeling, Toby was turned into a cliché Antichrist figure that hates holy water and his ultimate 'plan' is a total 666 cliché which was something the original team managed to avoid while letting us know that Toby is a demon with subtle religious undertones, AND the main part of his mythology wasn't even mentioned in the film! Their research on the computer never included 'making deals with a Demon' or sacrificing a virgin, these things were all hinted at in 2, 3 and 4, where is it in this movie? nowhere, like... what the hell? And to be honest his true form wasn't even terrifying, I imagined it to look like something with hooves like the footprints in 1 and a goat face with horns, but Hollywood just HAD to take out the scare factors and use CGI because that's 'scarier' than what you can't see in the dark... yeah, totally.
And the casting was just lacklustre, the actors aren't even well known like the others and their acting is just... flat, and it felt forced and painted like a happy family with no dimension or depth, it felt so fake and artificial, like they used a bunch of super models who can't act, cannot portray a realistic family and called it the casting list,
they will NOT be remembered for this, at least not in a good way.
2, 1, 3, 4, and even TMO will always be the true Paranormal Activity Franchise,
not this... Never...
There were two things that made me lose all respect for Mr Plotkin the 'Director' of
The Ghost Dimension, this film, and how he lied to fans that Katie Featherston would reprise her role with the 'best demonic grin in the business'... Bastard.
Wrong again, skin puppet.
If any of the film's don't belong, it's The Marked Ones.
The Ghost Dimension is right behind 3 as the best of the series.
But the ending makes NO sense, it cannot work as the finale.
The Marked Ones wasn't great, but it still felt close to the films.
This one had terrible editing, didn't have the same feel, and didn't even get the Mythology right. Shame, should of been directed by the original director of the first 4 films.
There was a lot wrong with it, I will agree. Before watching I figured they wouldn't really answer much because these movies never do. They never answer anything, just raise more questions every time.
The ending? It was a very lame and very unfulfilling ending because we have already seen Toby in someone else's body. We've seen him use Katie's body and Kristi's body already so if he could do that then there is absolutely no reason that it took 5 sequels just to see Toby do something he already did in the first two movies. Ridiculous. Overall though, I enjoyed the movie for what it was but the ending was not acceptable. The time travel stuff was also unnecessary but whatever.
However unlike the previous films, this film didn't even give us anything, just more questions stacked with more questions that resulted in paradoxical plot-holes, the previous films still gave us answers related to why Toby haunted Katie and Toby making the deal with the witches and why they needed the first-born son, how Hunter was being prepared for Toby, what exactly that was, we don't know, but it was leading up to something, the Marked Ones hinted at it many times, Toby was building a Demonic army of males born from pregnant females that were born and raised in the Coven by Covens all over the world, THAT actually made sense, this film just ignores the Marked Ones completely, inserts all this bullshi* about Leila and Hunter being the chosen ones that were born under the same moon, why was Hunter abducted in 2006 and Leila was only brought into the plot during 2013, it was a total mess inside and out.
Yeah, what if you nuked Toby's human body? problem solved, prophecy averted!
Him being in a human vessel during 1992 doesn't make sense either because if he's human in the years of Katie and Kristi's childhood to adolescence, how does Toby haunt Katie and Kristi in 2006 as adults when he's already human in 1992? and why did Toby need to be sent from 1992 to 2013 when Toby was already there in present time, he already had Hunter to himself at the end of 4, does he just go 'POOF' and disappear from that timeline? like, makes NO sense! And if the previous events from the other films are 'erased' that means the events leading up to Toby's Victory are erased because the Ghost Dimension was centred around things that happened which allowed this to happen, if what happened before doesn't happen, what follows after CAN'T happen! The timeline is destroyed! I just gave myself a headache by comprehending why it doesn't even make sense!
I don't even consider this film as part of the franchise, it was directed by the editor who had NO idea how the films worked, absence of originally established plot points, no Katie Featherston who was in EVERY film, EVEN the Marked Ones at the end, in fact I heard that the reason Katie wasn't in this film was because she fought with the production of the Ghost Dimension, like she knew what a shi*fest this would turn out to be and wanted NO part in it.
I don't understand, you rated this film a 10 but you seem like you hate it, what's going on.
Also this film gave us answers, whether you like the answers is another matter, but you can't ignore them. There are still things unresolved or not touched on in the film but we got more answers than any other film in the series. So to say all we got is more questions and no answers ain't true.
Okay, I'll be honest... I did love it in the movie theatre, I enjoyed the 3D aspect of it, I even called it the perfect finale of the franchise.
...Maybe I'm being too harsh, the ending didn't make sense, but then again it's a movie, and the ending could make sense in some way, and it's true, we did get answers, and I suppose even if it were directed by Chris Sanders, it wouldn't of had the same feel because movies evolve, it's 2016, so the formula WILL change, I was wrong.
It wasn't perfect, but it wasn't THAT bad as I thought it was.
Okay fair enough...but who's chris sanders?
shareChris B Sanders was the director of all movies including the Marked Ones, excluding the Ghost Dimension.
shareOh I'm presuming you mean Chris B. Landon, and the only film he directed in the PA franchise was The Marked Ones which he also wrote. Oren Peli wrote and directed the first PA, Kip Williams directed PA2 which Chris B Landon Co wrote and Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman directed PA3 and PA4 and Chris B Landon wrote both of those films aswell. He's been the main writer of the franchise not director.
shareOhhh. That's right. Oh really? I didn't know he only directed TMO, wow.
Aha, so it wasn't the issue of the wrong director, but the writer, who were the writers for the Ghost Dimension anyway? they weren't very creative, minus the time travel.
Shame they replaced him as the writer, oh well.