Again a great horror movie. So this is the way a franchise ends. The sixth and allegedly final installment of the massively money-minting found-footage horror series, “Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension” offers little more than a distant, whimpering echo of a film property that once made such a bang. Distinguished mostly by the addition of 3D and an unusual distribution window, the film is scheduled to hit VOD less than three weeks after leaving cinemas, to the chagrin of a few theater chains.
It will be interesting to see if the experimental release strategy pays off in the long run, and it’s not hard to imagine the “Paranormal” series living on thanks to the multiplicity of new digital content platforms. For all the memorable scares it manages to cook up, “The Ghost Dimension” might have actually worked better as a series of GIFs.