This late foray into fantasy horror did not sit well with some viewers, but the movie at least offered a (somewhat muddled) explanation for the demon’s origin and motives. Thanks to the success of its emerging replacement The Conjuring franchise, the film's needed to finally depict its central evil onscreen and so 2015’s Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension featured a memorable CGI demon along with some trippy, Poltergeist-inspired dimension-hopping visuals. However, by 2015, the series was coming to a close thanks to diminishing returns, and the last entry of the franchise finally unveiled the demon that remained unseen throughout previous installments. Of course, the massive profit margins may have had something to do with the movies eschewing CGI in favor of smaller-scale (and therefore cheaper) shocks. Related: How Paranormal Activity Became The Most Profitable Horror Movie Ever Made Later sequels started to incorporate more complex lore but, despite gradually worsening critical write-ups, the Paranormal Activity franchise made the admirable decision to stay lo-fi through to its final movie. Unfortunately, as the franchise wore on, this technique became somewhat overfamiliar and the movies lost a lot of their novelty value thanks to a slew of rip-offs. The original Paranormal Activity was massively successful thanks to its slow-burn thrills, which paired long stretches of empty silence with sudden jump scares that shocked even the most hardened horror viewers.
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