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Paranormal Activity is a supernatural found footage horror film franchise that began in 2007. Off of the immense success of the first installment, the films played an instrumental role in turning found footage into a prominent and profitable horror subgenre from the end of the 2000s onwards, with many comparing its impact to what The Blair Witch Project did for the subgenre at the end of the 1990s.The first film chronicles a woman named Katie who's spent most of her life haunted by a supernatural presence, the efforts of her and her boyfriend Micah to set up a video camera to discover what it is, and the paranormal activity that ensues — with dire consequences.Written, directed, shot and edited by one man (Oren Peli), it was filmed in a week for $15,000 and had a modest festival run, after which it was given a Steven Spielberg-approved limited theatrical release in late 2009 and eventually received a wider release a month later thanks to an effective fan-driven marketing campaign. It has since made over $193 million, making it — number verifiability and possible exclusion of marketing costs aside — the single most profitable film ever made.This gave way to a full franchise, with numerous sequels (almost all prequels) centering around Katie's childhood, the origins of her haunting and her connections to similarly haunted family members. The only two entries in the franchise that don't feature Katie are The Marked Ones, featuring an entirely new set of Latin-American characters, and Next of Kin, the most recent entry and the first after a six-year gap. There was also a Japanese-exclusive sequel to the original film, Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night, released about a month after the American sequel; it follows a completely new story and is not considered canon.
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Trailers Always Spoil
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Trailers Always Spoil: Lots of the scariest nighttime segments are in trailers, not to mention the Camera Abuse ending. Completely averted with the third film, in that a majority of the scenes in trailers and commercials aren't in the actual movie. It rivals Half-Life 2's boxnote  No, this isn't some dirty phrase. Half-Life 2's original box was filled with screenshots, but not a single one of them was in-game., in this respect. Unfortunately, a commercial advertising a showing of the third film on the FXX network played it completely straight, spoiling Lois killing Dennis. One of the screenshots on back of the DVD of Paranormal Activity 2 is a possessed Katie lurking ominously behind Dan, spoiling part of the ending, as well as the general fact that the film shifts from being a prequel to a semi-sequel. Despite their face being semi-obscured in darkness, anyone who's seen the first movie would easily figure out who this is and when this scene happens in the chronology, both due to the clothing worn by the character in question. The trailer for The Ghost Dimension shows clips of Toby's visible, Humanoid Abomination form.
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Virgin Sacrifice
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Virgin Sacrifice: Part of the demonic ritual requires one. Alex is strongly implied to be the sacrifice.
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Genre Savvy
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Both Randy and the babysitter in 3 promptly leave after being terrified by the demon. Randy urges Dennis to watch the tape and realizes that he's out of his damn league on this one.
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Full-Frontal Assault
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Full-Frontal Assault: At the end, Toby, in his corporeal form, appears to be naked as he snaps Emily's neck.
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Never Trust a Trailer
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Never Trust a Trailer: In the final frame of one trailer for 2, you can see the family dog in Hunter's room barking at something unseen in the doorway. The crib is empty, however creepily enough in the mirror's reflection you can see baby Hunter standing in it. This never happens in the film. The DVD cover shows the opposite — Hunter is in the crib, but he cannot be seen in the mirror. This also doesn't happen in the film. Also in 2's trailer, there is a part where the chair in Hunter's room begins to rock on its own, and a scene where Katie's silhouette suddenly appears in the doorway. Neither of these things happen in the film. Trailers for the third movie feature a number of clips that never happen in the movie: Julie being pulled into her bedroom and the doors slamming shut behind her, Katie and Kristi huddling in a corner in the kitchen, their house on fire, et cetera. The teaser for the third film featured the girls invoking Bloody Mary in their bathroom. The scene does happen, but with completely different characters.
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Say My Name
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Say My Name: MIICAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Alex's friend Sarah, who is shown in one scene at the beginning of the film, is the deuteragonist in Jacob Degloshi's viral campaign videos in which she is the target for the demon's haunting. Her somber behavior at the beginning of the shorts implies that her story takes place after her friend Alex dies. Also applies to Kristi in the opening scene.
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Playing with Fire
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Playing with Fire: Implied for the demon; it most likely burned down Katie's childhood home, and then sets fire to an Ouija board for no reason other than to be terrifying. The extended version of the second film includes a scene where the stove is turned on and soon engulfs a pan in flames.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Jesse and Hector.
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Papa Wolf
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Papa Wolf: Dennis loves Katie and Kristi unconditionally and gives it his all to protect them in the finale. Unsurprisingly but sadly, he is unsuccessful.
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Voluntary Shapeshifting
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Voluntary Shapeshifting: According to Word of God, the bird-like footprints shown are not necessarily indicative of the demon's true form. It simply chooses to have the footprints appear that way.
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Deal with the Devil
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Deal with the Devil: Never completely confirmed, but heavily implied that this is the ultimate source of the haunting.
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Wrong Genre Savvy
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Father Todd brings up the often mentioned advice from the previous movies that moving out won't do any good since demons don't haunt places; they haunt people so Toby would just follow them. In this case he happens to be wrong, since this particular house is a key part of the Coven's plan, being the place where the Time Travel portal can be opened. Getting Leila as far away from that house as possible would've delayed the bad guys plan.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: Hector's baseball bat. It's first seen and discussed in the back seat of his car early on, and is later used by Marisol to subdue Jesse.
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TheUnReveal
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The Un-Reveal: Even though the film provides answers to most of the key questions created by the franchise, it leaves unanswered many of the small ones: Why was Time Travel necessary to achieve the Coven's endgame? What's the purpose of the many possessed people implied by The Marked Ones? And why were the boys possessed with their souls apparently erased while the girls like Katie and Christie simply brainwashed? Why did the Coven give Hunter up for adoption between the events of 2 and 4?
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Bedsheet Ghost
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Bedsheet Ghost: Played straight, surprisingly enough, and actually pretty damn creepy.
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The family never finds out anything about what's happening, or why it's happening. The closest they come is Ben finding out "freaky shit" about the demon's sigil and the coven, but nothing more than what we, the audience, already knew about it from previous films By the end of the film, all that has been accomplished is that Hunter/Wyatt has been raised as a normal boy and then broken and reclaimed, the entire family has been killed, and that the coven has grown A LOT.
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Lois comes across as a nice, caring grandmother at first, even if she does make some disparaging remarks about Dennis behind his back - then it's revealed that she's a witch and the reason for the curse in the first place.
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Offing the Offspring
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Offing the Offspring: Lois orchestrates the death of her own daughter in order to give Toby what he wants.
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Porn Stache
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Porn Stache: Uncle Mike sports an impressively bushy mustache that is ridiculed by most of his family.
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Extremely Short Timespan
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Extremely Short Timespan: Unlike the previous movies, where the haunting unfolds slowly over the course of several weeks, the events of this movie play out in less than a week.
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Uncertain Doom
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Uncertain Doom: Irma ends up in hospital after suffering a nasty fall down the stairs thanks to possessed-Jesse. It's never revealed if she survives her injuries. Arturo is last seen blasting through hordes of witches with his shotgun. It's never revealed if he was eventually overpowered and killed or if he managed to escape.
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: Katie and Kristi's birth father is nowhere to be seen. Lois mentions that the children 'miss their father' but who he is and if that's even true is not explored.
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: Jesse's grandma, Irma, only speaks in (unsubtitled) Spanish. Given that the film is set in a Hispanic neighbourhood, quite a few other characters occasionally do so as well.
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Speak of the Devil
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Speak of the Devil/Elephant in the Living Room: Apparently Katie and Kristi have always known of the demon, but just refused to acknowledge it. The third film implies that a demonic cult has been tampering with their memories for hell knows how long throughout their childhoods.
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Catapult Nightmare
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Catapult Nightmare: Katie, in the first film, does this one time when waking up. Ali does this in the second film as well. Both are due to the demon's influence (Katie is being fed gruesome nightmares by it; Ali wakes up after it looms over her).
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Two Guys and a Girl
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Two Guys and a Girl: Jesse, Hector, and Marisol.
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The Bad Guy Wins
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The Bad Guy Wins: Easily the closest Toby has ever come to a loss, and possibly the only film where his victory wasn't inevitable. But, he still pulled it off.
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Ominous Visual Glitch
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Ominous Visual Glitch: When Hector enters the mysterious door at the end, the picture glitches and goes black for a few seconds.
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Ramming Always Works
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Ramming Always Works: When Katie and/or Toby try to asphyxiate Alex in the garage with a running car, she breaks into it and, instead of simply shutting the engine off (which would still leave her trapped in a toxic environment,) she backs it up and smashes through the garage door in order to escape into fresh air.
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Kick the Son of a Bitch
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Kick The Son Of A Bitch: The two would-be muggers who end up getting brutally flung aside by Jesse's new demonic Super-Strength.
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The Unintelligible
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The Unintelligible: At one point, the demon can be heard whispering very faintly, something the camera is able to pick up. Micah listens to it over and over again, but doesn't recognise the language.
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: While possessed, Jesse bullies the denizens of the local grocery store and tortures his own dog simply because he can. He also very cruelly sneers at Hector that he isn't his friend. Later, it gets much worse when he pushes his grandmother Irma down the stairs, resulting in her hospitalisation.
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Stable Time Loop
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Stable Time Loop: As part of the strange, time travel abilities of the cult. Hector ends up in Micah and Katie's house from the first film, in the same timeframe as Micah's death.
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Does Not Know His Own Strength
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Does Not Know His Own Strength: Jesse first discovers his newfound Super-Strength when he tries to fight off some muggers. He hits out at them, only to be astounded when he ends up literally throwing them aside with brutal force.
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Now You Tell Me
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Now You Tell Me: Katie didn't bother telling Micah that she's had a demon spirit bugging her for most of her life until she moved in with him. She retorts that it'd make her seem absolutely insane if she gave out such info on the first date, which he then counters with the fact she could've told him just before living together.
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Sequel Escalation
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Sequel Escalation: The film required a more polished look and better effects than the other entries since the story is told through high definition camcorders rather than security cameras and webcams.
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Found Footage Films
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Found Footage Films: One of the more successful franchises of this type of film. The framing device of the movies is the footage was recorded by the people in the videos, either by handheld cameras or security cameras, and edited together by someone else to figure out what happened.
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Visible Invisibility
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Visible Invisibility: Invoked by Micah in 1, who spreads talcum powder all over the upstairs floor to catch the demon's footprints. Sometimes the demon casts a shadow. In the third film, dust from an earthquake briefly settles on the demon's body. In 4, the Kinect's tracking dots show the demon.
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Mundane Solution
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Mundane Solution: It turns out that regular shotguns are a highly effective way of dealing with witches.
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See-Thru Specs
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See-Thru Specs: The family finds an old camera in the basement that can allow them to see spirits.
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Flat Character
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Flat Character: Alex's parents exist only to disbelieve her claims of supernatural events. And to get killed by the demon.
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The Middle Ages
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The Midwives Coven itself, of which Lois is a member, which is revealed to have been active since at least The Middle Ages.
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Took a Level in Kindness
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Took a Level in Kindness: Micah, but only at the very, very, VERY end.
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Bad Black Barf
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Bad Black Barf: During the climax of the movie the briefly possessed Skyler vomits an black substance that burns Mike to death on contact.
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First-Name Basis
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First-Name Basis: Ali calls Katie "Katie," even though Kristi always refers to her as "Aunt Katie" in front of her.
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Fluffy the Terrible
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Fluffy the Terrible / Tom the Dark Lord: A partial example. The demon's real name (assuming it has one) hasn't been revealed, but Kristi, as a child, refers to it as "Toby". Robbie also refers to it by that name.
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Brainwashed
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Brainwashed: The cult is strongly implied to have started brainwashing Katie and Kristi from a young age, which is why they can barely remember anything from the events of this film.
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Face-Revealing Turn
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Face-Revealing Turn: At the end of the film, Dennis tries approaching Katie whose back is facing him. Unfortunately after turning around we learn she's possessed and she sends him flying across the room.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: It's clear that Dan does not believe in the demonic haunting whatsoever so when strange things start happening the only thing he can do is blame the people around him. He fires Martine, blames Ali and Brad for various abnormal occurrences, and gets short with his family for even bringing up anything supernatural. However, when the proof of what's happening is presented right in front of him he drops this behavior and immediately searches for a way to save his family. The way he achieves saving the souls of his family rubbed a good chunk of the audience the wrong way.
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Ouija Board
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Ouija Board: The trio use a Simon electronic matching game as one to communicate with the demon. Green is for yes, red is for no.
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The Stinger
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The Stinger: After the credits, there is a scene in a store of Santería artifacts, set in a South of the Border ghetto. As the cameraman and an unseen companion discuss the store's contents as "witchcraft," the female store owner, dressed in black, comes out of nowhere and says "It is the beginning," freaking out the cameraman so much he and his friend flee. This being a tease for The Marked Ones.
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In-Universe Camera
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In-Universe Camera: Played to its fullest effect to turn a Haunted House story into one of the most terrifying horror films in recent memory.
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Happily Adopted
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Happily Adopted: Wyatt. Unfortunately, his adoption is all part of the demon's plan.
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Obnoxious In-Laws
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Obnoxious In-Laws: Julie's mother rags on Dennis behind his back and pressures her daughter to have more kids—a son, in particular. In truth, her motives are far more sinister than the usual grandma-itching-for-more-grandbabies-to-spoil.
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Laughing Mad
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Laughing Mad: Randy lets out a few bursts of terrified laughter when the demon terrorises him and Katie.
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Credits Gag
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Credits Gag: The extended version has a scene near the beginning with a kid named Jake dressed as Luke Skywalker. In the credits, he's named as "Jake Skywalker".
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Break the Cutie
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Break the Cutie: Despite the demon not particularly interested in her specifically since the worst she ever is to it is an impediment in getting what it wants, there is no possible way that Ali makes it through the events of 2 unbroken.
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Dramatic Spine Injury
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Dramatic Spine Injury: In the final moments of the third movie, Dennis is frightened by a possessed Katie, falling over backwards and apparently hurting himself. As he crawls across the floor, he's confronted by the witch Lois; he falls to the floor twitching, and then his torso is suddenly and sharply folded backward, snapping his spine and killing him.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: Dale is killed by the creature before it proceeds to slaughter most of the cult. The creature then possesses Samuel, who makes two cops commit suicide before driving into town where it will no doubt claim more lives. The only upside is that Margot and Chris manage to escape.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: "He looks just like his mom." and "My name is not Hunter!"
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Wham Shot
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Wham Shot: After Hector enters the mysterious door whilst trying to escape from possessed-Jesse, as the camera regains focus, it quickly becomes clear that he's in Katie and Micah's house from the first movie - and in the exact same timeframe as possessed-Katie's murder of Micah. When Jesse and Hector are exploring Ana's apartment early on in the movie, they come across a box of old videotapes - one of which is marked "Kristi and Katie - 1988". During another exploration of the apartment, the group come across an altar in the basement. Among other things, they find some photos on top of it - photos of Jesse. The last photo, however, is of Jesse's mother, pregnant with him at the time... and posing with Katie and Kristi's grandma Lois. At the end, Hector and Marisol travel to a house that, according to Ali, is where the "final ritual" will be performed and seems to be the coven's base of operations (or one of them, at least). Upon their arrival, the audience can see that this house is the same one that Lois lived in.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: Jesse's Demonic Possession starts with a bite mark on his arm. He starts looking more and more sickly as time goes on. At one point, he pulls long strands of hair out of the corners of his eyes.
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Crazy Jealous Guy
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Crazy Jealous Guy: One of the signs that Jesse's possession is getting worse is him getting violent after he sees Marisol talking with another guy.
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Cutting Off the Branches
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Cutting Off the Branches: Paranormal Activity 2 naturally confirms the wide-release theatrical cut's ending as canon.
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Logo Joke
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Hell, the film closes with the Paramount logo used during the time period.
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Improbable Infant Survival
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Improbable Infant Survival: You think the sequel would be an aversion, but in the end the only ones left alive and unpossessed are Hunter and Ali, though the ending doesn't exactly leave one with much hope for Hunter. Zig-zagged, It's revealed in 4, he (somehow) was adopted and renamed Wyatt. Although, in the same movie, he is pulled under water seemingly possessed and calls himself his original name: Hunter. Then, he leads his sister to get attacked by his possessed aunt, Katie. However, both their whereabouts are currently unknown.
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Lean and Mean
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Lean and Mean: Toby is usually seen taking the form of a very tall and thin humanoid.
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Meaningful Background Event
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Meaningful Background Event: During the ending of 2, possessed-Katie can be seen standing behind Dan without his knowledge. During the ending of 3, Lois is standing in the darkness, just watching Dennis, as he retrieves the camera in the bedroom.
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Curiosity Killed the Cast
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Curiosity Killed the Cast: Ben comes into the house while there's (apparently) no one home, and stays long enough to hear noises upstairs. He decides to investigate, which causes him to stay and leave cult-related reading material on Alex's computer. Cue Katie... Subverted with the rest of the cast since Alex and her parents never figure out exactly why they are being haunted. This directly contrasts with all the other PA movie protagonists.
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Disney Villain Death
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Disney Villain Death: Jacob falls to his death down the hole where the creature is kept.
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Late-Arrival Spoiler
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Late-Arrival Spoiler: By the time of the fourth film, it's pretty much common knowledge (and even included in the synopsis) that Katie becomes the demon's host and abducts Hunter five years prior.
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Hell Is That Noise
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During one night, the demon "tests" its possession of Katie - the familiar rumbling noise when Micah is talking to Katie on the swing is a further hint that she is not herself. The final day takes this up to eleven. In addition, during the first scene in which this happens, Katie's shadow moves towards the door by itself.
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Freeze-Frame Bonus
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: At the very end, just before the credits start rolling, a quick shot of what appears to be a bed on fire can be seen, possibly a nod to Katie and Kristi's old house burning down.
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Arturo is a dangerous and heavily-armed career criminal who cares deeply for his younger brother and obsessively investigates the events that led to his downfall.
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BadassNormal
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Badass Normal: Alex trying to rescue her father and brother from a demonic Katie was incredibly impressive considering how frightened and vulnerable she was at the time.
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He Knows Too Much
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He Knows Too Much: The reason Katie goes after Ben. Of course, other than the fact the demon disliked him already.
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Dying as Yourself
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Dying as Yourself: Oscar kills himself before the demon can fully take over his body.
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Facial Horror
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Facial Horror: Mike gets some Bad Black Barf in the face, courtesy of a possessed Skyler, which burns the poor guy's face off.
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Missing Mom
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Missing Mom: Jesse's mother died giving birth to him, and he has been raised by his father and grandmother. It is later implied that she died due to Jesse being marked from within the womb by the cult.
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Gilligan Cut
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Gilligan Cut: There's a funny one near the beginning involving Hector, the camera, and a laundry basket.
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The Reveal
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The Reveal: The movie provides answers to most of the key questions created by the previous films: What is Toby's endgame? To acquire a corporeal human body of his own. What did he need Hunter for? Hunter's blood and Leila's blood are the key ingredients in the ritual to give Toby the corporeal body he wants. What does Toby look like? Toby's true form evolves as he gains strength. At first he manifests as diffused tendrils of dark energy floating around, which later coalesce into a very large cloud capable of interacting with the environment and assuming a vaguely human-shaped form. The cloud becomes more and more dense until it becomes a dark Humanoid Abomination with a terrifying face about 2 meters tall. Who was watching the tapes from Kristi and Katie's childhood seen in the third movie? It was Ryan Fleege, the father from this movie. The cult left them in his house along with the spirit camera for him to find.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: Demon Oscar has enough humanity left in him to kill the witch Ana and then fling himself off a building.
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Stealth Hi/Bye
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Stealth Hi/Bye: Katie and Robbie LOVE doing this.
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No Ontological Inertia
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No Ontological Inertia: As mentioned at the beginning of 3, Lois passed away some time ago - unfortunately, the curse she started is still active.
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You Can't Fight Fate
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You Can't Fight Fate: In any other film genre, Dennis would've been an Action Survivor. Poor, poor, Dennis.
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Supernatural-Proof Father
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Supernatural-Proof Father: As mentioned above, even when shown video, Alex's parents don't believe anything weird is going on. Towards the end, it seems like her father might be coming around to the idea, but is killed before he can find out more.
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Mugging the Monster
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Mugging the Monster: A very literal example occurs. Two thugs try to steal Jesse's backback and start beating the crap out of him, only for Jesse's demonic Super-Strength to kick in and brutally fling his attackers away.
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Idiot Ball
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Idiot Ball: Almost everything Micah does in the second half of the first film is obviously counterproductive. In his defense, however, he is a skeptic and this stuff really stresses him out and frays his good sense. It seems to be a trait of the men in these movies, as Dan refuses to believe or accept the idea that there is anything wrong in his house, Surprisingly, in the third movie, Dennis is the one who realizes that something very fucked up is going on and Julie denies it. She holds the ball for most of the movie until the demon decides to fuck her up.
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Token Minority
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Token Minority: Martine the housekeeper, a Latina in a sea of whites. That's still better than not having any minority at all though, as the other films except for The Marked Ones do.
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Arc Words
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Arc Words: "[Character]'s whereabouts remain unknown".
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Batter Up!
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Batter Up!: Marisol knocks a possessed Jesse out with a baseball bat while he's trying to kill Hector. Earlier on, a shopkeeper tries to defend himself with a baseball bat against a highly aggressive possessed Jesse. It doesn't work.
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Lovecraftian Superpower
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Lovecraftian Superpower: Jesse gains psychic powers as a side effect of his demonic possession. At first he thinks it's cool, but then his possession gets worse.
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From Bad to Worse
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At first, the "cleansing" ritual seems to have worked when Jesse passes out. It hasn't.
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Demon Slaying
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Demon Slaying: Father Todd concludes that an exorcism won't do any good, so they must attempt to destroy the demon with a ritual of Extermination. Even though they come close, they fail.
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Token Evil Teammate
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Token Evil Teammate: Arturo and Santo.
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The Faceless
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The Faceless: At the very end, all we see of Toby in his corporeal form are his legs and hand.
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Imaginary Friend
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Imaginary Friend: Kristi "befriended" the demon as a child. His name is Toby. People tell Kristi that he's imaginary, but he's not. A few night time scenes show her speaking directly to him.
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Agent Mulder
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Agent Mulder: Katie in the first film and Ali in the second. In the third film, it's actually Dennis and his friend Randy. In the fourth film, it's Alex and her friend Ben.
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Paranoia Fuel
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This gives you reason to be worried when your pets stare at corners...
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Slashed Throat
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Slashed Throat: Possessed-Katie slits her own throat in one of the alternate endings.
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Bullying a Dragon
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Bullying a Dragon: Micah goes out of his way to antagonize an invisible demon. This proves...foolish.
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Developing Doomed Characters
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Developing Doomed Characters: Almost all the films qualify for this.
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Where do we start? In the first film, the psychic who stops by near the beginning says that, when dealing with a demon, there are three things you should never do, as they give the demon more power: don't try to talk to it, don't antagonize it, and avoid a buildup of negative energy. Over the course of the film, Micah repeatedly attempts to communicate with and taunts the demon, against Katie's wishes; as a result, their relationship begins to deteriorate, which of course leads to negative emotions all around. By the time the psychic returns, it's gotten so bad, he bailed out, suggesting the couple do the same. Of course, they had to stay one more day... In a more subtle example from the first film, Katie, practically catatonic and in the very last stages of her humanity, is found by Micah clutching a crucifix. Micah later burns it along with the photo discovered in the attic. In the commentary, Oren Peli states that the crucifix, although having little effect on the demon, was the last thing to just barely keep her safe from it. In the second film, Dan fires Martine, whose smoking candle ritual actually did seem to be able to keep the demon at bay (listen to the familiar ambient noise). Dennis (in 3) is one of the only characters who seems Genre Savvy and tries to figure out what the hell's going on without causing problems. Randy, on the other hand, just gets out while he still can. The same can probably be said about the babysitter. Julie was the one who took up the Idiot Ball. They also practically delivered the kids to the masterminds of the whole thing, but that's excusable, since they had no way of knowing Julie's mom was behind the whole thing, and it also seems that the demon deliberately encouraged them to leave the house in the first place.
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Freak Out
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Freak Out: Towards the end, Katie has a tearful breakdown after Micah yells at her for bringing the demon into the house.
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Black Eyes of Evil
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Black Eyes of Evil: Leila gains these while possessed by Toby.
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Star Wars (Franchise)
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During the beginning, which takes place during Halloween, Wyatt's friend is dressed as Luke Skywalker.
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Humanoid Abomination
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What does Toby look like? Toby's true form evolves as he gains strength. At first he manifests as diffused tendrils of dark energy floating around, which later coalesce into a very large cloud capable of interacting with the environment and assuming a vaguely human-shaped form. The cloud becomes more and more dense until it becomes a dark Humanoid Abomination with a terrifying face about 2 meters tall.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Though young Katie makes a cameo, adult Katie never appears in the movie making this the first film of the series not to feature actress Katie Featherston. As such, her final fate is left unknown. The movie does imply, however, that Katie posed as a real estate agent and led the Fleege family to the house.
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Agent Scully
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Agent Scully: Micah in 1, Dan in 2, Julie in 3, Alex's parents in 4.
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Anachronic Order
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Anachronic Order: To watch everything in chronological order, you have to watch 3, 2, 1, 4, The Marked Ones, then The Ghost Dimension. But since the movies use bits and pieces from earlier-made films, a completely accurate viewing would require watching parts of one movie, then watching most of another movie, then going back to the original movie, etc.
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Creepy Doll
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Creepy Doll: You know how every kid that grew up in the 80s and early 90s had one of those Teddy Ruxpin dolls? You know how they were the creepiest damn things ever? Yeah. The filmmakers for the third movie remembered them too.
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Mr. Exposition
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Mr. Exposition: The psychic is only onscreen for a couple of minutes, but in that time he clearly explains what has been happening, what's happening now and what's going to happen until the movie is over. Needless to say, Micah and Katie (but mainly Micah) ignore his advice.
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Timey-Wimey Ball
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Timey-Wimey Ball: The cult's plan to get their hands on Leila and complete their ritual involves bringing Hunter and Leila back to 1992 when Kristi and Katie were children, as well as seeing into the future thorough Toby's eyes. This is most notorious when dealing with the tapes. and then there's the fact that Toby is running around in his incorporeal demonic form in 2013 even though the successful ritual to give him a human body takes place in 1992.
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Ancient Conspiracy
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Ancient Conspiracy: The Midwives Coven is revealed to date all the way back to the The Middle Ages.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: Let's be honest, does anyone like Micah?
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Demonic Possession
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Demonic Possession: As usual, Toby takes control of Leila at various points during the movie. He also uses this ability to survive the Extermination Ritual during the climax of the movie, by jumping into Skyler.
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Revenge
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Revenge: Oscar murders Ana because she is the witch that marked him for possession. On the other hand he might've thought that the demonic possession would end if he killed the witch that marked him. This is Arturo's motivation against the witches after the death of his brother.
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The Tape Knew You Would Say That
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The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Kristi says bless you when Leila sneezes while watching a tape of Kristi's training.
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Geometric Magic
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Geometric Magic: Part of the ritual of Extermination involves drawing the Seal of Solomon on the floor of the living room and surrounding it with a circle of salt, in order to trap the demon within and then attempt to destroy it.
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Behind the Black
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Behind the Black: Many scares, especially in 2, 3 and 4 (which each use multiple or moving cameras) are set up just outside the frame, or are obscured by the characters in front of it, so that the audience is freaked out by their sudden appearance when the camera focuses on them, even though the characters should be able to see them from their own perspective.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: The demon, aka Toby.
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Rewatch Bonus
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Rewatch Bonus: Dr. Fredrichs telling Katie that there may have been some kind of trigger for the demon to start harassing her again takes on a whole new meaning after watching 2. The ending has some extra meaning to it after watching the ending of The Marked Ones.
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Falling Chandelier of Doom
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Falling Chandelier of Doom: One falls in front of Alex while she's walking in her house investigating odd noises. When she looks up she sees Robbie looking at her.
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Invisibility
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Invisibility: The demon. The fact that it is never properly shown on-screen (until the sixth movie, at least) doesn't make it any less terrifying.
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Greater-Scope Villain
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Greater-Scope Villain: Grandma Lois, being the person who started the contract with the demon in the first place. The Midwives Coven itself, of which Lois is a member, which is revealed to have been active since at least The Middle Ages.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: As Jesse is checking himself in the mirror, the lights flicker and his reflection turns demonic for a split second . In the end, the demon completely takes over Jesse and turns him demonic. While the trio is reading the journal they found, they read about doors that allows Time Travel to unholy places. While running from Demon Jesse in the witches' house, Hector goes through an ominous door and ends up in the house of Katie and Micah from the first movie. Demon Jesse follows him through it.
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Time Travel
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Why was Time Travel necessary to achieve the Coven's endgame?
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Camera Abuse
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Camera Abuse: The ending has Micah's body being thrown at the camera, knocking it off its tripod.
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White Shirt of Death
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White Shirt of Death: After Katie becomes possessed and kills Micah, his blood is splattered over her light-coloured pyjamas. She is still wearing them when she returns to Dan and Kristi's house the following night.
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: The film's events are set during the Christmas period.
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Protagonist Journey to Villain
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Protagonist Journey to Villain: Jesse, as he gradually succumbs to his Demonic Possession.
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Inescapable Horror
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Inescapable Horror: Once the demon latches on to you, it will not stop until it gets what it wants.
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Nervous Wreck
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Nervous Wreck: As the paranormal encounters get worse throughout the movie Katie becomes more and more emotionally unstable.
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Nerves of Steel
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Nerves of Steel: In contrast with Katie who always has a little freak out after every single supernatural event, Kristi is incredibly calm and mature about the hauntings. She's scared, but she doesn't let her fear affect her family. Until she gets possessed. The difference between how these two characters act towards the demon is expanded in Paranormal Activity 3 where Katie's freak outs are even worse, while Kristi is even calmer with the demon.
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Death Is the Only Option
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Death Is the Only Option: Oscar tells Jesse that the only way to save themselves from being possessed is for them to kill themselves.
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Eye Scream
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Eye Scream: One of the cultists has his eyes gouged out near the end when chaos breaks out at the farm.
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Canon Discontinuity
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Canon Discontinuity: Tokyo Night ignores 2 and kills off Katie.
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Improv
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Improv: Much of the dialogue was unscripted, with Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat improvising most of it. Also, in some scenes, they weren't told when anything scary was about to happen in order to get a genuine reaction out of them.
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Sensory Abuse
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The ominous rumbling sound that accompanies the demon, which can get really loud when it's getting serious.
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And I Must Scream
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And I Must Scream: This film confirms that possessed people can be aware of their actions. Jesse, after terrorising a shopkeeper and a customer, says that he knew what he was doing but was completely unable to stop himself.
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Super-Strength
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Super-Strength: Those possessed by the demon gain greatly increased strength. Katie, for example, is able to throw Micah's body across the bedroom (after heaving it all the way upstairs), snap Dan and Ben's necks with ease, and send Kristi flying with a single shove (an act which also kills the latter). In The Marked Ones, Jesse unwittingly sends some would-be muggers flying after hitting out at them, and later stops a shopkeeper's baseball bat mid-swing with his hand.
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Adults Are Useless
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Adults Are Useless: Despite being worried about the changes in his son's behavior, Cesar seemingly does nothing to help him and is absent most of the time.
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Deliberate VHS Quality
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Deliberate VHS Quality: Makes the film seem like it really was recorded on a 1980's camcorder.
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Sole Survivor
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Sole Survivor: Ali is the only member of the family that survives because she was on a field trip the night Possessed-Katie murders her father and step-mother, and abducts her baby brother.
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Oh, Crap!
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Then in the fourth movie, there's the mother who backs-up into Toby. Toby is not pleased.
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Pyrrhic Victory
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Pyrrhic Victory: The exorcism of Kristi. Unfortunately, the demon simply took control of Katie and returned to finish what it started.
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For the Evulz
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For the Evulz: The demon, especially in the first film. Honestly, it slams the door shut then bangs on the other side of it just to fuck with them. Indeed, Katie even acknowledges this trope when she asks "Do you think that thing would have left footprints if it didn't want to? No. It did it because it wanted to. It wanted you to find my photo."
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Pragmatic Hero
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Pragmatic Hero: Dan saves his wife and son by cursing his wife's older sister. It works, until Katie gets possessed by the same demon to take Hunter like it originally intended to do.
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Story Breadcrumbs
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Story Breadcrumbs: The over-arcing story is told in this fashion. Each movie reveals a little bit more and the only way you get any idea of what's going on is the watch them all. The first movie introduces Katie and the demon, the two central figures of the haunting. The second film reveals why the demon went after Katie, expands upon Katie's family, and gives the first few hints about the source of the haunting. The third movie more-or-less confirms the source of the hauntings, reveals what happened to Katie and Kristi's parents, and shows where this whole thing started. The fourth film then explores on the fates of Katie and Hunter, while the fifth film reveals the Coven and Toby's endgame. The spin-off film The Marked Ones shows how widespread the Witches Covenant is and how others besides Katie are marked for possession by the demon.
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Ms. Fanservice
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Ms. Fanservice: Skyler, the family friend/house-guest spends most of the movie in flimsy blouses that show off her impressive assets.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Early on, Micah is eager to try and encourage the supernatural occurrences so he can get some interesting footage. Boy, did he get that footage. In 2, Ali is quite excited at the prospect of a "ghost" in the house and even hopes that it may be her deceased mother. She changes her mind very quickly. In 3, the kids, and Randy, play Bloody Mary. They didn't get to see it, but it did give them a really good scare...
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Fate Worse than Death
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Fate Worse than Death: Possession, and whatever it is the demon plans to do if it gets the baby. 4 implies the demon desires to utilize Hunter/Wyatt as a new host, but Ghost Dimension shows that it needs his blood to make itself a corporeal human body of its own.
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I Did What I Had to Do
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I Did What I Had to Do: As it turns out, the events of the first movie are a result of Dan doing this.
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Retcon
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Retcon / Rewrite: In the first movie, Micah makes an off-hand joke that Katie's mother shouldn't visit them any more, despite that we later learn she's been dead for years. Also, it was established in the first movie that the demon has been following Katie for years and was implied to have haunted her before, yet the second film has Dan foist the demon upon Katie via a curse as an explanation as to why she is haunted in the first film. There is also no indication that Katie has a sister or that the demon wants anything more than Katie herself. Most egregiously, the burned photograph in the first movie is very clearly implied to have burned in the house fire during Katie's childhood, with her even saying she hasn't seen the photo in 15 years and that its existence should be impossible. Yet in the second movie, the photo is in Kristi's house and it is Dan who burns it. 2 implies that the break-in early in the movie was done to steal a gift Katie made/bought for Hunter. 3's scenes-from-2 make it clear that that whoever ransacked the house was looking for the tapes of the girls as children.
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Leave the Camera Running
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Leave the Camera Running: Arguably the whole movie is this trope taken to extremes; entire nights are shown on fast-forward for the sake of a minute or two of action. Justified in the second film, as it's filmed through security cameras. However, the film purposefully repeats the same angles (front door, pool, kitchen, living room, front door, Hunter's room) for the first batch of nights, both to imitate security TV footage and to screw with the viewer. Used too much in the third film. At times, Dennis is recording himself reviewing video footage. Then, toward the end, when they're at the grandmother's house, he sets up the camera in the bedroom when he has no reason to believe a ghost has followed them. Then, when the shit hits the fan, he carries the camera around with him, even picking it up when he drops it when he's in danger. Given the nature of people and their camera phones now a days, he was really just before his time. And to be fair, the house is dark and he's essentially using the camera as a flashlight. For the fourth film, they introduce the camera phone and laptop.
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Sequel
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Sequel: This film is the first true sequel in the series as it actually takes place five years after the events of 2.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: The psychic and Katie repeatedly warn Micah against communicating with/antagonising whatever is in the house. Micah decides to spread talcum powder around, buy a Ouija board, and yells at the demon to do its worst. And to top it all off, he takes Katie's crucifix, the one remaining thing that could've given her any protection from the demon, and throws it in the fireplace. By the time he realises that antagonising the demon is a bad idea, it's already too late.
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Home Porn Movie
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Home Porn Movie: Subverted in the first and third movies. Micah wants to record Katie and himself having sex, but she refuses. Dennis and Julie try this, but they're interrupted by some tremors from an earthquake.
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Stopped Numbering Sequels
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Stopped Numbering Sequels: The films in the series are given subtitles instead of numbers starting with the fifth entry, The Marked Ones.
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It's All About Me
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It's All About Me: Micah is more concerned about the demon haunting what he considers his than for Katie's safety. In the end, when the hauntings have begun to truly take their toll on Katie's emotional well being, he grows out of it. At this point, however, it's too late, because Katie has started the beginning phase of being possessed.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: The only time Alex shows any true anger towards Robbie was when he convinced Wyatt not to talk to her.
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Slasher Smile
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Slasher Smile: Just before Possessed-Katie lunges at the camera in 1's theatrical ending, she sports an ear-to-ear smile. Her smile when she's laying on the bed after her Voice of the Legion kicks in may also qualify as she is smiling for all the wrong reasons. After Possessed-Katie kills Dan and Kristi in 2, she sports the same smile while holding Hunter. The fully-formed demon in The Ghost Dimension flashes an evil grin at least once at the camera.
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He Who Must Not Be Heard
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He Who Must Not Be Heard: Aside from a few animalistic growls, roars and snorts, the demon is never heard to speak. When other characters (such as Kristi and Wyatt) communicate with it, the audience only hears their end of the conversation, hinting that Toby can communicate telepathically.
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Jump Scare
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Jump Scare: The ending, in which Micah's body is thrown at the camera, especially with his body suddenly appearing out of the darkness. At one point, Katie and Micah wake up during the night, thinking they can hear strange noises. They sit upright, listening intently... and then there's suddenly a loud, demonic roar followed by a huge banging sound.
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The '80s
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The '80s: The film is set in 1988 and really does have quite an 80's feel. Teddy Ruxpin, the Sega Master System, Light-Brite, the babysitter's clothing and hairdo... Hell, the film closes with the Paramount logo used during the time period.
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Car Fu
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Car Fu: Towards the end, Hector and Marisol are driving away with a subdued Jesse in the back seat when the car is suddenly rammed into by another vehicle. By the time they've recovered from their shock, they realise that the crash was deliberate, and that Jesse has been taken by the occupants of the other vehicle.
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Neck Snap
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Neck Snap: Possessed-Katie snaps Dan's neck in 2. In 3, the demon snaps Dennis' neck and back, commando-style. Happens again in 4 when Possessed-Katie kills Ben at the computer, and in The Ghost Dimension when the now-corporeal Toby strangles Emily before snapping her neck.
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Hope Spot
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Hope Spot: For a few seconds it seems like the Extermination Ritual has worked and Toby has been destroyed... then the camera turns to Skyler.
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20 Minutes into the Past
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20 Minutes into the Past: The movie came out in 2015 but the action takes place in December of 2013.
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Nice Guy
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Nice Guy: Dennis in contrast to Dan and Micah is a pretty friendly and likeable guy trying to help his girlfriend's daughters.
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Oscar killing the witch Ana.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: Then a naked old lady (Ana) walks into view and starts painting a symbol on the young lady's stomach.
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Offscreen Teleportation
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Offscreen Teleportation: Those possessed by the demon appear to be capable of this.
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Musical Spoiler
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Musical Spoiler: Well, sort of. When the demon is present and active, a low, ominous, ambient rumbling can be heard, which can get pretty loud when its getting serious.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Wyatt rides his Fisher Price tricycle around the house, in a manner extremely reminiscent of Danny in The Shining. During the beginning, which takes place during Halloween, Wyatt's friend is dressed as Luke Skywalker.
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee
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Unspoken Plan Guarantee: The plan to capture and exorcise Toby is screwed from the start as soon as Father Todd explains it in detail in front of the camera.
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Smash to Black
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Smash to Black: This film ends even more abruptly than the previous installments as possessed-Katie lunges at Alex, presumably smashing her phone in the process.
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Nothing Is Scarier
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Nothing Is Scarier: Much like 3, the film opens with no logo or subtitles.
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Monochrome Casting
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Monochrome Casting: Nearly every character is Hispanic/Latino as the setting is in a Hispanic neighborhood.
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Alternate Reality Game
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Alternate Reality Game: Sometime after the film came out a YouTube account controlled by a man named Jacob Degloshi showed clips of him and his daughter being haunted by the demon as he reviewed clips from a VHS showing parts of the second and third films. As things went on, his daughter Sarah (moving in with him from his ex-wife) was being haunted more by the demon to the point where she carved the coven symbol into her arm and killed her pet bird. The campaign ends on a (now finished) livestream where Jacob reviews the sixth tape only for his house to go out and him to be killed before his possessed daughter and ex-wife. It's implied his exwife was a member of the coven who asked the demon to help her get her daughter back and make her join the coven.
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Cassandra Truth: Alex's parents refuse to believe her, even when she's almost killed and she has the footage to prove it.
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An Arm and a Leg: If one pauses the movie to read the article about the Diane Mercer case, it states that the possessed Diane gnawed her own arm off while restrained. Additionally, a quick shot of the grisly damage is visible for a second or two when Katie and Micah watch the video footage of her exorcism.
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Hoist by His Own Petard: The spirit camera that the cult leaves for the family to find allows them to put up a better fight against Toby than any of the protagonists of the previous films. Toby is still too powerful to be defeated, though.
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What the Hell, Hero?: Alex's mother, frustrated with her staying up and making up stories, gives her sleeping pills. Alex is 15. Her father is none too pleased with his wife's actions.
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Toilet Humor: Hector craps his pants after he eats a burrito.
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Revised Ending: The movie has three endings. The theatrical version is the canon one.
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Reality Has No Soundtrack: The films don't have any actual background music in them. The closest to such is the ambient rumbling that can be heard whenever the demon is present.
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Creator Provincialism: Except for 4, the series never once ventured outside of California (or the West Coast for that matter), the home state of the series' main producer, Jason Blum. 1 takes place entirely in San Diego, while 2 is similarly set entirely in Carlsbad. Most of 3 is set in Santa Rosa, except for the prologue (set in Carlsbad) and the third act (in Moorpark), The Marked Ones is set in Oxnard and Moorpark, while The Ghost Dimension doesn't specify its location until halfway through, in which it is revealed that the house is built on the site of Katie's childhood home, and thus Santa Rosa all over again. The only exception, 4, is set in Henderson, Nevada, which is still located in the Southwest, anyhow. The series seems to have an allergy towards everywhere but the Southwestern US.
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The babysitter Lisa immediately leaves when she witnesses a demonic occurrence. Also, Randy is the only main character who gets the hell out while he still can.
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Action Girl
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Action Girl: Alex is honestly the most proactive protagonist in the series, more than likely due to her and her boyfriend being a little Genre Savvy. She even attempts to save her father and brother from Katie.
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Red Herring: We're lead to believe that Robbie is really Hunter throughout most of the movie, until it's revealed to be Wyatt.
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Voice of the Legion: "I think we'll be okay now." Somewhat easy to miss, since it's only at around the "okay now" part.
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Ship Tease: Alex and Ben aren't officially girlfriend and boyfriend despite what Ben might think.
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Hijacked by Jesus: Micah is seen flipping through a book on demons, which features an article on Baphomet - in actuality this was a medieval European swipe at Muslims (Baphomet - Mahomet), and supposedly the 'demon' worshipped by the Knights Templar. In real life, Baphomet is often mistaken to be a demon, so it's likely the fault of the book's author, not necessarily the film makers.
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Cat Scare
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Cat Scare: Lampshaded. The family cat makes frequent appearances and strolls around the house at its leisure, so the audience knows to expect it.
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Unnaturally Blue Lighting: Just look at those posters.
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Fantastic Catholicism: Father Todd is the most helpful ally any of the protagonists in the series ever get, being the first one to ever come up with a viable plan to fight the demon through what appears to be a combination of Geometric Magic and Catholic ritual. And it almost works!
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Continuity Cameo: Young Kristi and Young Katie show up via the tapes of 3 and some new ones. They show up in person in the last scene.
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Decoy Protagonist: During the first half of the film, the movie is centered around Jesse. After the demon fully takes control over Jesse, his best friend Hector becomes the protagonist trying to save him. Of course, he fails.
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The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: Just before the now possessed Katie lunges at the camera, she stares directly into it while sporting a truly unsettling Psychotic Smirk.
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Mama Bear: Kristi manages to escape the demon's dragging ability, for a little bit at least, to rush back into Hunter's room to make sure he's alright.
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Call-Forward: Early on, we see the same photo of Katie from the first film, and again later when Dan and Martine are using it to pass the curse on to Katie.
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He Who Must Not Be Seen
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He Who Must Not Be Seen: The demon. It demonstrates Visible Invisibility at times, but otherwise remains unseen... until The Ghost Dimension.
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Cult: The Midwives, a coven of witches who worship Toby and are responsible for the events of each film.
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Determinator: Much like Dan in 2 and Dennis in 3, Alex gives it her all to rescue the target of the demon's hauntings.
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The fact that Toby forgoes his usual MO of escalating harassment and psychological torture in favor of a more direct approach against this family is a sign for the audience that something ominous is going on.
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Exact Words: Deconstructed. Micah promises not to buy a Ouija board. So, he borrows one instead. Great lengths are taken to show how much of a violation of trust it would be to pull this trope on someone.
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Jerkass: Micah constantly disrespects Katie's wishes and doesn't really take her concerns seriously, constantly tries to antagonise the demon, and is pretty rude to Dr. Fredrichs. By the time he realises just how bad things have gotten, it's sadly too late.
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Evil Old Folks: Ana, the witch who cursed Oscar.
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Nightmare Retardant: Dan and Ali actually treat the pool cleaner scene this way, laughing about its erratic behavior.
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Undying Loyalty: Marisol's resolve never wavered from rescuing Jesse from his possession, while Hector's faith was shaken by Irma's hospitalization.
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Misapplied Phlebotinum: Ben sets up all computers in the house to record the odd happenings and goings-on while the family's not around or is asleep. While they do remember to check the footage a few times, most of the truly supernatural occurrences go completely unnoticed. And the events that Alex records personally are never revisited, even when she threatens to show it to her parents.
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Creepy Child: The children on the farm, like Samuel's brother Eli and the little girl that Margot talks to, are weird, emotionless kids.
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Product Placement
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Product Placement: Denny's, Froot Loops, Go Pro, TikTok and Walmart all feature heavily and their merits are discussed at length by the characters.
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Cool Big Sis: Alex is this for Wyatt, but after Robbie shows up he purposely puts himself in-between her and Wyatt and manipulates him into being distant with her. Alex caught onto this and quickly voiced her displeasure.
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Big Sister Instinct: The film opens with Alex distracting Wyatt from their parents failing marriage, throughout the film she continues to do her best at keeping him out of trouble and harm's way, she catches on pretty quick that Robbie is a bad influence on him, and in the end Alex dies trying to rescue Wyatt from a witch army.
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"Friends" Rent Control: At first glance, it appears that this is the case, but a passing reference is made in the first three movies to the "sudden" acquisition of wealth by Katie and Kristie's great-grandmother, in conjunction with descriptions about how deals can be brokered with demons for just that, usually in exchange for a first-born son. The upshot is that the family is filthy rich with ill-gotten demon-money, and Toby has haunted them for five generations, waiting to collect his collateral.
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: The cult wants to make Margot the newest host for a demon. That would be pretty bad if it weren't for the fact that not doing this leaves the demon free to possess whomever it wants while killing indescriminantly.
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Evil Is Petty: In the extended version, the demon cranks the pool's temperature to boiling hot before Dan jumps in. Cue Dan leaping out of the pool in pain and asking for a pack of frozen peas to apply to his groin.
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Intangible Man: The demon's intangibility is apparently selective at its discretion. It slashes up Micah in a photo of the couple without removing the glass (although it has five nice, neat cracks on it over his face). It leaves footprints in the powder, just because it wants to. Kristi runs across the bedroom unimpeded but Katie—who is right behind her—slams into something with an audible thump. Shortly afterwards, it lifts Katie off the ground by her hair. In the third movie, an earthquake causes bits of dust and plaster to fall on the demon, revealing its outline. A second later it all falls to the ground as if nothing was there. Then in the fourth movie, there's the mother who backs-up into Toby. Toby is not pleased.
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Evil-Detecting Dog
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Now You Tell Me / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
One-Hit Wonder / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Ouija Board / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Our Demons Are Different / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Protect This House / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Reaction Video / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Same Content, Different Rating / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Shock Fatigue / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Single Sex Offspring / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Sound-Only Death / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Stealth Sequel / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Stopped Numbering Sequels / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Supernatural-Proof Father / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
The Danza / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
The Mockbuster / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Tom the Dark Lord / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Trilogy Creep / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Turn of the Millennium / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Undercrank / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Unseen Evil / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Visible Invisibility / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Voice of the Legion / int_24f409f0
 Paranormal Activity
hasFeature
Weaponized Camera / int_24f409f0
 paranormalactivity
sameAs
Paranormal Activity