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| This scene never happens. |
So I've just been burning through these this week. Even looking forward to the next one in the series after the last is over. The first movie introduced the idea, the second expanded and improved on it, the third showed it all to us in a different way. So what will the fourth bring?
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| Did this come from the movie or are the FBI on the way to your house. We'll see! |
A whole lot of the same shit. Paranormal Activity 4 brings nothing new to the table and follows the formula of the first three like a flow chart. Rich white people have a giant house and a camera fetish. Something weird happens. Someone sets up cameras everywhere and then even weirder shit happens. This time all the weird stuff is around a seven year old(?). Which they really really do their best to convince you is the weird kid for the purpose of a pointless twist later in the movie for the sake of having one. On top of that, all the characters are just pulled from the other movies and given different names. Not literally, but they are pretty much cut outs of them. The only new thing brought to the table here is that the fucking demon can use an Xbox. Let's talk about that shit a bit.
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| Welcome to Kinect vision, get used to it. |
So. One thing they did really wrong here was have the demon keep the name Toby from PA:3 to this one. Not only that, the damn thing is playing Kinect Sports with the two little kids in the movie. They humanize this thing and it takes the other world and alien nature of it out of play. In one scene the plot makes it out like "Toby" is a servant of the child. Then it reveals that Toby is cool to you as long as you do whatever it says. So what is it? Is Toby chill and fun since you're the little chosen one or are you living in total fear that the demon will kill you, the little chosen one and reset all of their plans and deals? Oh what massive bullshit.
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| This scene never happens either. |
I guess I can also go into the actual characters and why and all that. Teen girl is getting fucked with by a ghost, so her and her annoying boyfriend (Sound familiar), decide they are going to play detective and record everything in the house on webcams in a few rooms. The only reason they even suspect a ghost is because they caught a shape moving in the infrared beams put out by a Kinect while using night vision on a camera. So, as you would expect, they use the hell out of that effect. There are people walking all over the place in these damn beams that almost give you a headache. Don't worry though, none of this or the characters matter. Wanna know why? Well if you haven't figured it out from the results of the first three... spoiler alert.... ya ready? Ok... ALL OF THESE PEOPLE DIE AND IT DOESN'T MATTER! I'm starting to get the idea that there is no real motivation to this story other than to extend out the series. I'm pretty tired of watching all these characters the movie spends 90 minutes getting me to care about die the same way over and over again. We've had in four movies, three people getting flung around and killed by the demon off camera and four getting their necks and back broken. Totally lazy. I could likely go on more about other lazy things that make no sense, but I'm done talking about this particular one. I'm ready to watch The Marked Ones and put this series to bed. Because unless they change a lot, it's gonna be a real bad time.
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| Guess what? Yep, this scene never happens either. |
Just watch the first three movies, there isn't much a reason to watch this one unless you really do like them that much and just need to know the story (which barely advances). Until next time, don't be afraid to be a little scary.
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