Like all “Paranormal” subjects, the Fleeges are chronic videographers, and Ryan gets to flex some new photographic muscles when he finds a old-school camcorder stashed in the garage, along with a collection of old family videos. Joining them for a few weeks is Ryan’s brother Mike (Dan Gill), a commodiously mustached hipster recovering from a breakup, and Skylar (Olivia Taylor Dudley), a young blonde woman of unclear relation to the family, in town for some sort of yoga retreat that allows her to abruptly disappear from the film for long stretches. Murray), mother Emily Fleege (Brit Shaw), and 7-year-old daughter Leila (Ivy George) - as they prepare for Christmas in their enormous new Santa Rosa house. While it does answer some lingering questions about the franchise’s overarching mythology, “The Ghost Dimension” spends most of its running time dully retracing old steps, introducing yet another suburban family - father Ryan Fleege (Chris J.
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There may well be new and novel ways to spark audience shivers from not-so-bright homeowners inexplicably using their cameraphones to check out bumps in the night, but this series clearly has neither the patience nor the inclination to look for them anymore. Subsequent sequels might have diminished its legacy a bit - though last year’s oft-maligned Latino-themed offshoot, “The Marked Ones,” was refreshingly unserious - yet nothing compares to the feature-length shrug that director Gregory Plotkin offers this time around.
Though it hardly invented the found-footage conceit, the original “Paranormal Activity” certainly helped elevate it to the status of a proper and profitable subgenre, with its own unique tropes and cinematic language.
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