Paranormal Activity 4 Review
Year:
2012
Stars: Stephen
Dunham, Katie Featherston, Matt Shively
Directed:
Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Running Time:
88 mins
Let’s see what this flogged horse has in store for us.
Henry Joost (directed PA3 and that Catfish documentary) and Ariel Schulman
(Also PA3 and Catfish) bring us part 4 on a budget of $5million.
Set in 2011 that’s right it’s 5 years after the last one,
Alex (Kathryn Newton, Bad Teacher and TV series Gary Unmarried) experiences
some strange goings on when some new neighbours move into town a woman and her
son.
We get a quick recap at the beginning of what happened
with Katie and Hunter. We join the new movies protagonists on Halloween
collecting candies. The older girl and boy (Ben) off camera go to a party
afterwards.
You know the way these movies work it’s a slow build up
to something big a reveal usually or some way to elongate the story. This one
is no different just with a completely unrelated cast to any of the previous
movies.
What it does have is it lets you know what happened to
Katie and Hunter since the original, well at least what they’re doing now, they
live in a new suburb and Hunter is one of them odd children people are either
freaked out by or feel sorry for. As Alex delves deeper into their life more
and more strange happenings occur. There are some interesting uses of
items/implements in this movie compared to others that made me smile.
The ending is pretty much the same as the others in that
it all comes to a death filled crescendo, you know I don’t spoil endings here
at THN so I’ll halt there.
The effects are reasonable and on par with the others, so
are the acting and writing these movies aren’t bad. It’s like the saw series
it’s just there and their people fodder if they keep watching they’ll keep
getting made.
You all know here at THN that I’m not a huge fan of real
footage or shaky cam things that aside this movie as part of the PA series is
standard and if you like the others you’ll like this one.
So for that reason I give this a 3 star mark based on the
rest of the series.
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I know I’m in the minority with this one, but I still had a good time with this flick even though it was nothing all that special from what’s been done before. Maybe I’m just too much of a fan. Good review Jack.
ReplyDeleteEach to their own Dan O i only give my perspective on what i think it's like it's up to others to read my reviews and decide if they want to give it go, happy easter ;)
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