Paranormal Activity 4

U/A; Horror

Starring: Katie Featherson

Director: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman

Rating: ** (out of Five)

When the hundredth sequence of eerily-quiet-furniture-room arrives, you know you’re watching a tired and slipshod milking of a large horror movie franchise. That is precisely what happens in Paranormal Activity 4 – a fourth entry that clumsily overstays it welcome.

The first Paranormal Activity had its own problems but it was a fresh and innovative (and genuinely creepy) version of found footage horror. Naturally greedy hands who saw the Saw franchise and the hundred-plus million box office returns decided to churn out factory-like sequels. The second and third films worked to an extent as they tried to expand on the story, Paranormal Activity 4 tries to go further and tie up some of the loose ends but mostly fails. The lack of story would’ve been okay had the scares at least been decent, sadly they are as tacky as they come.