Paranormal Activity 4. Rated M (horror theme, violence and coarse language). 88 minutes. Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. Screenplay by Christopher Landon.
Verdict: It’s probably the last gasp for the Paranormal
Activity franchise as it takes on Rosemary’s
Baby – and loses.
The ghost of The Blair
Witch Project (1999) has haunted
just about every offering from independent filmmakers playing around with
projects from the psychological horror genre. Famous for, among other
achievements, cutting tyro filmmakers loose from big budgets and motion picture
studio funding, Blair Witch
made the ‘found footage’ and wobbly, jump cut, hand-held camera work its
signature and raked in more than $250 million at the box office.
