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DAY 3: Paranormal Activity 4
On Amazon Prime ($3 rental)

So, a brief history on my thoughts on the Paranormal Activity movies. 1 is an awesome movie. 2 is the most boring shit I've ever watched with a laughably flaccid ending. 3 might actually be better than 1, honestly. I only ever watched the first two movies--and then I decided to watch the whole series. So I only saw 3 rather recently.

So now I just saw 4. I like the main actress in it, Kathryn Newton. You may know her as the girl from Detective Pikachu. The story with this one is that she has a woman and her son move in next door. The woman gets sick and heads to the hospital and her creepy son comes over talking about seeing his best friend and demon boy with the same name as the evil demon in the previous movies. And, as you may guess, increasingly strange things happen in the house.

I thought I had the story pegged, but I loathe to say this movie outsmarts you with a good twist and a couple scares. I say loathe because this movie is not good. At all. Seeing these movies so close after one another has really grinded down my patience for them. Stall, stall, stall, more stalling, then scare. That's the movie now. And unlike 3, which was a massively creative and step up, this one doesn't do anything particularly unique.

The characters, btw, are a rough go around too. The lead teenager girl is good, and so is her boyfriend. Her parents are barely even a part of this movie though, which I find actually a little refreshing, but they're so in the back of your mind plot-wise.

I think the worst part is how long they took to get to anything actually spooky. Oh my god they took so much time before getting to the god damn invisible demon. It was so frustrating. I don't get the pacing with this film at all.

But it suffers from what Paranormal Activity 2 did. It was a rehash that offered nothing new and didn't offer any moments of legitimate dread. The characters weren't interesting and it got silly at parts.

So I do not recommend Paranormal Activity 4 unless you need to round up watching the series like I do. I'll be watching the last two movies this month too. God help me.

Rating: 3/10

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