Thursday, November 8, 2012

Paranormal Activity 4

 The anticipation of yet another Paranormal Activity didn't let down. In my oppinion....the best of the franchise. It had it's usual chills, pop-outs and screamers but we actually learnt about the where-abouts of Katie (All paranormal activities) and Hunter (parts of 2 & 4).


 Paranormal Activity 4 doesn't focus on the family as it did with the other 3 movies, but was led with a complete new cast as "The Neighbours." Yes....this sounds like a major cliche with horrors but it was completley original judging by the franchise it was used in.

The story takes place in 2011, five years after Katie killed her boyfriend Micah, sister Kristi, her husband Daniel and took their baby, Hunter.
This time round, the story focuses on Alex (Kathryn Newton), a blonde teenanger who with a little help from her boyfriend Ben (Matt Shively)...records all night to see any parnaormal events happenening. She notes that all these things started happening when the neighbours moved in. Ben suggests that he can set up laptops around the house to record everything. Over the next couple of days, strange occurrences happen around the house, such as Robbie waking up in the middle of the night and talking to the TV, Robbie and Wyatt running around the house in the early hours of the morning chasing a silhouette of a small child figure. Robbie draws a strange symbol on Wyatt's back, which Alex later finds to be part of an old cult which first appeared in Paranormal Activity 3. Some more of the unexplanable ones are Alex levitating while sleeping and the car driving itself out of the garrage with Alex stuck inside.

The final minutes of Paranormal Activity freak people out but I won't spoil too much but be warned...all the parnaormal events throughout the movie lead up into a massive event at the end of the movie....like the other 3...ending it with a viscious....murder and cliffhanger leading off into a possible fifth installement.


My personal rating out of 10 would be an 8 but if they classify it as a horror the score will drastically change...and not for the better. It's more of a thriller with a few scary moments.

Close friend Thando saw the movie the other day along with myself and Ryan, another close friend and was completely petrified. She couldn't walk into the darkness alone. She was scared big time and feared while even watching. By the near end...she was on the floor watching it through the cracks between the seats. She was horrified.

A great movie and the best of the franchise. Consider watching it...if you dare...BE WARNED!!!!!

Dylan




















1 comment:

  1. I remember sitting with a friend at a late-night showing of The Innocents, a really scary movie made in the 1960s, but nothing actually HAPPENED - the scare was in the music and you wondered if all those ghosts were just in the woman's imagination. My friend screamed and hid under the seat too. I think the scariest movies are the ones that let you use your imagination.;-)

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