Paranormal State: The Complete Season Three
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Actor: Ryan BuellDirector: Benjamin Wolf
Brand: A and E Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 462 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-10-06
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
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- PARANORMAL STATE: THE COMPLETE SEASON 3 (DVD MOVIE)
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DVD Review: Real ghosts unlikely to show their faces after this show
Summary: 2 Stars
This show is good for comic value as you paddle the murky waters of cable TV. Ryan Buell, who formed the Paranormal Research Society at Penn State earlier in the decade, leads a team of professional 'paranormal investigators' who provide cable fodder and are likely influencing the next generation of 'paranormal investigators' to forego real disciplines and get in on the action.
This collects the third season of the A&E series (shame on you, A&E), where the team investigates another crop of hauntings and possessions and spookings. This time, it's hanging out in abandoned church basements, travelling to Kentucky where yet another rube is having trouble with a pesky horned person or creature, and other fun trips to random locations where people who really want to believe are brought face-to-face with the people who will validate their wants.
The show is plain funny. The 'paranormal activity' they claim to capture is utter baloney. There is no believable evidence on the show, because most everything is open to editing and manipulation, all in between the commercials (not included here). The scary music, the night-vision video cams, the electronic voice thingies, and the habitual 'let's go to the basement or attic' (because that's where this stuff has to happen) is shameless and predictable. In fact, I have to just give credit to them for being able to a) stretch this formula out to multiple seasons and b) being able to hold the laughter in. Also, these charlatans are pretty well-equipped, so we get to learn about cool gadgets.
What's missing from this box set are the outtakes where the team members burst out laughing whenever someone utters phrases like, "Is there someone here with us?" or "Can you reveal your presence to me?" One begs for a ghostly display of flatulence to answer these plaintive questions, but alas, such activity is never captured. What is captured is the occasional unaccounted-for moan, the squeaky door, or the rumblings of a cesspool mistaken for evidence of hauntings...the kind of hauntings that seem to multiply in direct correlation with the number of digital cameras and electronic voice doo-hickeys in the area. One troubling aspect of the show is the continuous suggestions put into people's minds that their home is really haunted, or that they may really have some kind of paranormal ability or vision. Guaranteed to be used by some kids for years to come as a why-I-didn't-do-my-homework excuse.
The recent film Paranormal Activity is a much more succinct effort to spook audiences, with its 'found video' quality purporting to show footage of a couple who set up cameras in their home to capture late-night 'paranormal activity'. Entirely fiction, and not entirely satisfying, it's a better effort than this show. A&E has once again proven that they have no shame, and no standards, but following the jaw-dropping Growing Up Gotti series, you probably already knew that.
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