#Movie times paranormal activity 4 movie#
#Movie times paranormal activity 4 series#

I’d almost rather have this series be something like A Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, in that the original story didn’t have more material so the location got moved. Correct me if I’m wrong, but PA3 showed some witches in the family of Katie from PA gaining wealth by offering up the next son born into the family, and that’s the baby kidnapped in PA2? WHO FUCKING CARES. Instead, it’s just a repetition of the same shit we’ve seen over and over again with one person who we recognize and still, after four movies, we have very little understanding of why most of this shit is happening and what will happen next. The story is so simple, that there are spooky things happening to a family and they want to investigate those spooky things, that every different installment could have been a different family or a different house and each time things could have been done differently. There isn’t any sort of mythology to how all of these characters are connected, or at least why it needs to be these characters. The biggest problem I have with both this and Paranormal Activity 2 is that there’s really no reason any of this shit needs to be happening to one family exclusively.

#Movie times paranormal activity 4 movie#

Did we ever find out why Katie has a new son living with her? Is this another stolen child? Do we know what the fuck has happened int he 5 years since Katie kidnapped Hunter and how he could have ended up with a different family? It’s entirely possible that this information was given to us at some point in the movie and I just didn’t pay any attention to it. All of the scares were predictable, none of the characters were interesting or enjoyable, and a lot of shit didn’t make sense. I kept searching for something to like about this movie, ANYTHING to like about it, and keep coming up short.

We’re to assume that some sort of demon or something has entered his body, I guess? Anyways, the family gets the sense that shit is weird and they eventually run across the street to see what the fuck is going on and then the whole family is confronted in the backyard by a bunch of witch demon weirdos or something. In a scene where this little boy is sucked under the water of his bathtub for seemingly minutes, he comes up for air but acts differently. He keeps insisting that his name is actually Hunter, which was the name of the baby Katie took from her sister in PA2. After a few days, the “sick” mom returns to living across the street, and we find out it’s Katie (Featherstone) from the first two movies! Oh no! When the adopted son is led to her house, he returns a changed little boy. When neighbor mom gets “sick”, the neighbor 5 year old stays with the main family, and things get even more intense. Dark figures and shadows and the sounds of things moving, all that good stuff. Would you believe that then some spooky things start happening? BELIEVE IT, BROS. The neighbor son acts like a super creep and keeps showing up at the family’s house with an adopted son. This family has a new neighbor move in across the street, and that family also has a 5 year old son. Taking place 5 years after PA2, we see a family with a tween daughter and a 5 year old adopted son. Pretty sure this was the only gag even attempted to be done practically. Now that it’s out on home video, I figured that the least I could do was spend 90 minutes on my couch watching it, so I did. I was generally pretty interested in the movies as a whole, but hearing early reviews of the fourth film quelled any interest I had in seeing it, and it’s the first installment I didn’t see in theaters. Paranormal Activity 3was a prequel, and the found footage angle was a little bit more believable, and there were a couple of good scare gags in it and brought an interesting angle to justify why all of this stuff was happening. Paranormal Activity 2 really just tried to follow in the footsteps of its predecessor, and rather than trying anything new, just tried to heighten what the first film already did, and it wasn’t all that successful at that. It’s very subtle in the scares that it creates, and I find it to be quite enjoyable, despite losing some of its charm on repeat viewings. I found the original movie to be like a roller coaster, in that you go into it wanting to be scared, prepared to be scared, and once the “ride” is over, you don’t think too much about it, so long as you got what you were looking for. Rather than make you go back through all my posts to find out what I thought of the other installments in the Paranormal Activity franchise, I’ll try to quickly recap my thoughts on the previous films.