CHARACTER SURVIVAL SPOILERS BELOW
First one is quite cool, some good effects considering the budget, but it's too long and slow and the Heathers style atmosphere slides into Idle Hands territory too often. It also really feels tv movie cheap thanks to some pretty bland direction and lighting and a crappy synth score.
Second one is surprisingly good. It's one of those fun cult horror sequels that pays a lot of attention to continuity. Emily Perkins is great and really evolves her role, it's a fun new set-up, it's a more manageable 90 minutes, and Ghost is up there with Newt in the pantheon of awesome kid characters. I was thinking to myself what a good actor the girl who played her was - turns out it was Tatiana Maslany, playing about ten years below her actual age! Maslany is a total chameleon. KNB are doing the effects now, so they're a bit better. I genuinely would love to see Maslany come back for a sequel twenty years later.
Third one is part of that bizarre mini-tradition of genre franchises going back to cowboy times for the third or fourth one and just having the same actors play their characters' ancestors. It's admirably ambitious and the KNB effects are good again, but it's really tropey and it drags a lot. I ended up skipping through by the end.
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