As seen on Dajaz1.com
I’ve been a fan of the Paranormal Activity
movies for the last 3 years. I absolutely LOVED the first movie and in
my opinion, when enough time passes, I feel like it will go down as a
horror movie classic. I also really enjoyed the sequels, no matter how
many times people shit on them, I really did enjoy the 2nd and 3rd
movies. I mean really it’s the same shit, white folks recording
themselves getting haunted by a evil supernatural force, and for some
odd reason, people keep watching them. It worked 3 times in a row
rather you like it or not because it became one of the highest grossing
horror movies of all time. To the folks that complain about why they
keep making these movies, ask yourself the question on why you keep
paying money to go see it. Guess you got nothing else to do on a Friday
night..but I digress…
PA4 is the first sequel in the series that
is NOT a prequel, and we finally find out what happened to Katie and her
little nephew Hunter. This film takes place 5 years after the events
in PA2. This time around we follow a young teenage girl named Alex
(Kathryn Newton) who decides to document her daily life with her and her
family. They recently have new neighbors that moved across the street,
and after the mother becomes hospitalized for a unforeseen reason, her
mother decides to watch after her son named Robbie (Brady Allen) while
she gets better. After becoming friends with Alex’s little brother,
strange things start happening through out the house. With help from
her best guy/boyfriend Ben (Matt Shivery), they decide to film all the
activity that goes on around the house. If you follow the last 3
movies, you already know what happens next.
Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the same directors that did PA3, are
brought back for this film to being the same magic that brought in the
last one. Not gonna lie, they did being new ways to watch the cameras
this time while using the Iphones, MacBooks, and the Xbox Kinect motion
lights. However, other then that, the movie just falls flat. Literally
NOTHING happens in this movie, until the last 15 minutes. I mean I’m
not gonna lie, the tension is still there, but it’s nothing we haven’t
seen in the first 3 movies. You are pretty much used to it by now, and
it really does start to get stall after a while.
In case your wondering, YES, Katie IS back
in all her possessed glory for this sequel. Personally, I’ve had the
biggest crush on her since the first movie, mostly because of those knockers
she has. However, she is only in 5 scenes, and majority of her scenes
were just to show all the demonic powers that she has now since Toby the
demon has her possessed. I really didn’t like the way they used her
character in this movie, and I was really kind of let down by that.
After 2 prequels and a bunch of flashbacks, they could have done her
character A LOT better.
Matter a fact, besides Alex and Ben, there
really wasn’t NO character development. In the first 3 movies, we got a
chance to know the entire cast of characters, we even got a chance to
get to know the demon a little bit and it’s motives to do what it’s
doing. In this one, we could really give a flying fuck about any of the
characters besides the 2 main characters and Robbie. Plus the logic is
just mind blowing, why the FUCK would you agree to watch over someones
kid you just BARELY know? Also there was a scene in this movie where
Alex shows her dad footage of a shadowy figure fly across the camera,
and the only thing he says is, “That’s awesome!”..smmfh… I pretty much
gave up on the reasons why she was filming all the shit in the first
place, because honestly there really was NO reason for her to film. In
the first 3 movies, the characters had legitimate reasons on WHY they
were filming, in this one there was no reason at all. However, when it
comes to these Paranormal Activity movies, just throw the logic out the window.
Like I stated earlier, the last 15 minutes
is when shit really gets going and the last 5 minutes is when shit
REALLY hits the fan. BUT, that ending really just left more questions
to be answered for the next one. In my opinion, this ending really
seemed rushed, you really didn’t get the chance to process all the shit
that was happening and before you finally do, the movie abruptly ends.
When the lights came up in the theater, me and my friend just sat there
and said, “What the fuck just happened?” The ending left a bad taste in
my mouth because the writers and directors did the one thing that shows
the biggest sign that they need to wrap things up. Without spoiling
anything, lets just say they jumped the shark. The tagline for this
movie is, “All the activity has lead to this”, that my friends is misleading because all the activity has lead to ANOTHER sequel.
All in all I was really disappointed in
this film, and my worst fears for the franchise really did come true.
Hopefully with the next movie that is due out next year (It’s inevitable
at this point), hopefully the studio figures out a grand finale for the
series that will leave the fans happy. Recently they started a viral campaign
that continues the story and hopefully shows the direction the series
is going. Other then that, I will go on and say that PA4 is the weakest
one out of the entire series, and they really do need to wrap it up.
Busby's Review: 2/5
~~Mr. Busby~~
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