Paranormal Activity 4
Tags: cult, murder

Plot synopsis:
On October 9, 2006, Kristi Rey and her husband Daniel are killed by her demon-possessed sister Katie, who then abducts Kristi's one-year-old son, Hunter. Text states that Katie and Hunter's whereabouts remained unknown.
Now 5 years later, in November 2011, Alex Nelson (Kathryn Newton) lives in suburban Henderson, Nevada with her father Doug, mother Holly, and little brother Wyatt. Alex and her boyfriend, Ben, discover their new neighbor's son, Robbie, hiding in their family tree house. The next day, Robbie's mother falls ill and is taken to the hospital, leaving Robbie, in the care of the family. As Robbie is unpacking his stuff, he says that his teddy bear is "100 years" old. Also, he has a "100 year old" fork.
Alex is skyping with her boyfriend, Ben, when she hears the front door open. When she leaves the web cam in the room, Robbie darts past the screen. One night while Alex is sleeping, Ben's computer starts recording, and he sees Robbie getting into the bed with her. The next day, she goes to the kid's playhouse, and Wyatt starts telling her about Toby, Robbie's friend. They turn their Xbox Kinect system, and Alex films herself with it. When Alex talks to Robbie, behind him, there's a green blur that rushes past the screen.
The next day, Alex shows her dad, but he thinks it's a joke. Alex and Ben set up cameras all over the house. On night #3, Robbie and Wyatt are running through the house like maniacs. The next day, Alex is in the kitchen, making a sandwich, and a basketball starts dribbling down the stairs. While in her bedroom, she starts hearing strange noises and a loud bang from downstairs. When Alex investigates, she finds a trail of toys that leads to a closet. Suddenly a toy train turns on behind her and spooks Alex. She finds Robbie, who runs away from her saying, "He does not like you filming us," as a chandelier falls and almost kills her.
On night #6, Alex sees a lot of cars parked outside Robbie's house, and goes to check it out but runs back home after being caught by a strange woman in a black gown. The next day while Wyatt is playing in the house, chairs start moving by themselves and stop him in his tracks. Wyatt pushes his bike off-screen only for it to appear to be pushed by invisible force back to him. Alex and Ben are in the living room when the hear a very loud thud from upstairs. When they go to the boy's closet, Wyatt reveals a green symbol on his back and tells them, "I had to meet him".
Alex and Ben learn the symbol is from a witches' coven, one that would unleash a demon to possess a young boy. They read further to learn to complete the possession ritual, Wyatt would need to spill the blood of a virgin. Ben jokes with Alex about her virginity to spook her. The next day, the boys suddenly leave, and go to Robbie's house. Alex follows the boys there, where Katie (from the original film), presumably Robbie's mother, has returned from the hospital appearing well and normal.
In the next scene, while Holly is in the kitchen cutting vegetables, the knife she was using vanishes into thin air. Later, Wyatt explains to Alex that Katie knew that Robbie and he were both adopted, and that Wyatt's real name is "Hunter." Katie told Wyatt his old family wants him back. The next night, Wyatt goes downstairs and argues with Toby saying, "My name's not Hunter." While Wyatt is taking a bath, Holly goes downstairs for a few minutes. When Holly answers a phone call, Wyatt gets pulled under the water by Toby. When he rises, he appears to be in a trance. Later that night, Holly gives Alex some sleeping pills, because she's been "having trouble sleeping." While Alex is asleep, Wyatt makes the blanket fly off the bed, and levitates her in mid-air.
On night #12, a possessed Katie is seen sneaking around, and Alex's garage door starts opening and closing. Alex hears the garage door open, so she goes to closes it. It mysteriously opens again, and, when Alex goes under it, the door crashes down, locking itself, and almost kills her. During this, Katie enters the house and goes upstairs to Wyatt's room, where she tells him that she'll wait until he is "ready." The family's car turns on by itself and begins spewing exhaust, but Alex escapes by breaking into the car and crashing through the garage door. Alex attempts to show her parents the footage of this incident, but the footage has been mysteriously erased. Alex tries explaining what happened, but her parents think she's gone crazy.
The next night, Doug is downstairs watching TV on the couch, and hears a creak in the kitchen. He investigates for a moment, and seconds after he shuts down his computer, and the knife that had vanished falls right in between him and the camera. This convinces Doug to believe Alex. Alex and Doug go to dinner to talk about the strange events. While they are gone, Holly is violently thrown against the ceiling and drops to the floor, dying upon impact. Katie drags her body away. Ben comes over, goes inside and looks for Alex, but no one is home. He hears a bang upstairs and attempts to leave a message on Alex's laptop. Katie appears suddenly and kills Ben by snapping his neck.
Alex and Doug arrive home and Doug goes next door believing he saw Holly and Wyatt. As he goes to investigate, Alex calls Ben's phone and hears it ringing in the closet. She finds Ben's body and is suddenly knocked down by a force, presumably Toby. She flees to Katie's home, and searches for Doug but cannot find him. Instead, Alex finds Doug screaming being dragged down the hall and out of sight. She continues to search for Doug, when she hears Wyatt's voice off-screen. Suddenly, Katie runs towards the camera shrieking like a demon. Alex escapes from Katie by jumping through a window and finds Wyatt in the yard. Wyatt refuses to leave and looks behind Alex. When Alex looks up, she sees dozens of witches running towards her. As she turns around, Katie lunges at her. The camera falls to the ground and the screen cuts to black.

Review: At first, 80% of the movie was completely pointless, and i'm not even mentioning the fact about absence of shocking moments, even "traditional paranormal activity jump scares" were left out.
It just bothers me how they don't keep the movie exciting enough for the Paranormal Activity fans, how would they like to have the people come back to watch the movie again?
It has become an unintentional October ritual that I decorate the house for Halloween, watch a few horror films, and, since 2009, see the latest installment of the Paranormal Activity franchise.
The characters are a tad more tolerable, and some sequences, including the end, have a bit more life in them, but when the moments examine the paranormal inactivity of it all, it becomes totally vanilla.After two films we finally reconnect with Katie from the original film, this time, living on an upper-middle class suburban block with Hunter from the second film.
When Katie is taken to the hospital for unknown reasons, Robbie (Brady Allen), who already loves to venture into the neighbors' backyard and hang out in the treehouse, is sent to be cared for at Alex's home for the next few days.Robbie immediately strikes up an unsettling friendship with Wyatt, and it isn't long before Alex and her goofy boyfriend become victim to the paranormal activity occurring in the household.
These films have gotten to be achingly predictable, and it feels like every year since 2010, I've gone on a lunch-date with a person whose intentions I like, but personality and charm I've come to loathe.I think besides the nifty camera-work, what elevates Paranormal Activity 4 from the monotony and the drabness of the previous installment, is the fact that we have at least marginally tolerable characters to watch as well.
Just another sidenote; the last fifteen minutes of this film did not scar me for life, much like its predecessor's.Paranormal Activity 4 is effective in rustling up scare-attempt after scare-attempt on a basic level, yet shortchanges the larger questions that would offer insight to Katie's family if explored.
Considering audiences seem to be tiring from the bang-and-scare features the found footage genre has inspired, it would be a pity to see this franchise die before it can fully clean up its messy tracks.Starring: Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively, Katie Featherston, Brady Allen, Aiden Lovekamp, Stephen Dunham, and Alexondra Lee. Directed by: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman..
The truth of crap not worth movie, not really expecting anything good but this time it made ​​sense to the movie at all, arguments and history are the same, the end of the third repeats.If you want to vote your money go see it because I personally do not recommend.Seriously the director doesn't have imagination , the effects in the movie looks old , and the noise in the movie is the only thing that its "scary"...if you now what i meanAnd the story in the movie, please have another ..
Paranormal Activity 4,,,,, well fellow movie goers this movie was a huge disappointment, first it starts out confusing they introduce characters that have nothing to do with the rest of the series, there are no big scares or out of control haunting 's like the rest of the series there are a few minor jumps at the end, the acting is horrible in this one.
by the tine you reach the end your left with more questions than answers, if you have seen the other 3 then you can understand some of the movie the rest is just so confusing you have no clue who the 2 main character's are supposed to be and what exactly they have to do with the movie,,, my final rating is 2 stars out of a possible 5 this movie was doomed from the start,, very disappointed,, do not recommend paying to see this film....
I really DID forget this was a horror movie and laughed the whole way through with one scene where I did jump, but more so because I knew what was coming and the suspense of waiting for it to happen was what threw me off - not really my idea of a scare.Another good thing I will say about this besides that it's a comedy is that it can be watched without having watched the second and third one!
Despite only finding at best mixed reviews, I had high hopes for this film as a fan of the series; the original Paranormal Activity was a refreshing change from what had become a stale and repetitive phase of horror films.
The cliff-hanger ending reassured me that the fourth Paranormal Activity would answer the fairly basic questions which are the only reasons that we feel the need to watch every film in this series.
Especially now that the demon has control of a Human body (Katie) and all of Hunters family is dead so there is no one to stop it or try to save him.Overall, this film was hugely disappointing, failing completely to recover from the slump of story line and structure, which the third film saw.
This film was extremely gimmicky; almost as though the company made it like a filler to give the writers more time to come up with a better story, but still wanted to make another couple of bucks by milking the franchise at the same time.
A friend asked me, "have you seen Paranormal Activity 4?" But how ironic in that he said, he gave me to understand that it is not a good movie and so it was.
Anyway, this particular film is basically just a teenage girl Skyping with her boyfriend the whole time and maybe like 2 scary things happen in the whole movie, but you've been waiting for it so much that it's anticlimactic when it finally happens.
This is mostly to do with the build up being so utterly dire that by the end I just didn't care , which is a shame as it could have worked better if any sort of effort had been put into the other 83 minutes.I walked away from this film disappointed and bemused at the series' slip in quality and how it seems to be going the way of many horror franchises before it, in the sense of taking a fresh and alternative attempt to scare people and then slowly becoming utterly predictable.
For those of you who have seen all the films you know that its not going to cover new ground but you are still expecting a decent continuation and contribution from a franchise that you like.
After attending a special preview screening of the whole film (the directors informed us it wasn't the completely polished movie yet- still a little editing to be done) the audience reacted very positively towards it.//Plot- The film takes place five years after Paranormal Activity 2, which ended with Katie kidnapping Hunter.
After Robbies mum goes to the hospital Alice's mother takes Robbie in, which leads to weird occurrences in their house//Look, in all honesty, there are a whole host of better horror movies to watch out there, but i am writing for those who WANT to see this movie on its own merits not any one seeking out a mind-blowing plot with incredible character development!...okay?!
(...me!) So all in all, if you have never seen any of the previous films and you go to see this one (for some strange reason?!) you will have had a decent movie outing with jumpy moments and will probably want to watch the others after!
Which I think I enjoyed the most out of four.This one is got to be the worst movie of series so far,no were near as good 1 or 3, even worse them PA 2 (Which I did not like)The scare scene in this movie really tame down from 3rd movie, none them were really affecting at all, the ended it to quick and moved on to the next scene, like nothing happened, that how it feels thought out the whole movie, some of the scare were so bad that was almost funny.
The only parts I really enjoyed were last 2 or (3 max) minutes of the end, there are some good enjoyable scene to watch, which some may find scary.The acting was really decent of from the whole cast,4 out of 10, Worse in the series by FAR!.
Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) * 1/2 (out of 4) The first film was a masterpiece, the second boring, the third had a good story but no scares and I think this fourth one really puts the nail in the coffin.
I'm sure the film will make a lot of money on its opening weekend but I doubt word of mouth will be too strong so if they do plan future installments I hope they actually come up with a new and different story and quit trying to connect everything together.
I went to see this film last night (day of release) in reasonable anticipation as admittedly I do enjoy going to watch Paranormal Activity films.
Overall this film is just one too many in the series, the first hour is a complete waste of time following the story of a 12 year old and her perverted 'friend'.
Overall in my opinion watching this film was a complete and utter waste of time and money, it didn't scare me at all at any point and the whole plot and story line was completely stupid and boring.
The family's daughter and her boyfriend start sensing weird things going on in the house, so they start an investigation by setting up web-cameras to watch over the house.I was looking forward to this movie, basically because the first three movies were fun times.
It has some hilarious lines and it is really self-aware, which is good because when you've come as far as a fourth movie, it's hard to take it seriously.Paranormal Activity 4 is overall a pretty fun time.
It was a complete waste of 86 minutes and objects rapidly moving toward a camera at the very end of a movie were hardly "scary." I skipped the second iteration and against my better judgment, saw the third one and now the fourth.
Perhaps if people stop wasting their money to see this crap from the same studio that duped the public out of $33.7 million on the opening weekend of The Devil Inside, they'll put some time and effort into making a real horror movie.There was so much potential that could have been explored.
it's like the even-numbered ones in this series are doomed to suck(this is not as bad as the second one, though, in spite of multiple cameras, since there are no wasted angles, in part because of those we follow, and their amount)) Alex(Newton, girly but not annoying, our lead and pretty sympathetic...
There were very very long period of complete boredom, I mean really it went for ages without anything really happening, I believe that if they made a contest around the states for any new idea to add to "Paranormal" you would have got something 100% better than this pathetic movie.Waste of time and money.Tara Hamdi (Abu Dhabi).
Alex's parents decide to be good people and let Robbie stay in their house for a few days until his mom gets back from the hospital.However, strange incidents suddenly start to occur after Robbie moves in and Alex begins to suspect that there is more to Robbie than there appears to be.++++++++++++++++++**My Opinion** OK, let me say this...I REALLY didn't like this movie.The plot is practically non-existent in this movie.
When i saw part one i gave up on the Paranormal series.But still i came so far that i was lured into a trap, and watched part 3 which was absolutely fantastic.For a long time i waited for a 'found footage' movie where they actually made something more happen then a bump and a cheap boo, while 90 % of the flick existed out of boring family issues and all that other lame stuff.
Now for teenage guys, this is going to be a good change as Ms. Alex (Kathryn Newton) is a very pretty sight, but for those wanting more back story on Katie, well you're out of luck for most of the movie.
Viewers like me who know how to determine when scary things will happen, are good at putting two and two together, and can't stand plot holes are going to want to skip this film, as it may be boring.
I cant wait to know if they will be a fifth movie because they are still so much things that need to be revealed.Overall a great movie, Scarier than the past ones, great plot,Cons : The ending was a little rough, and rushed but so far they always ended their movies the same way so it wasn't a surprise.Great Halloween movie if your a fan of supernatural!..
I saw it for the first time as a rental, and when I began watching it I feared I had come across a dud but as the day progressed I watched it bit by bit and began to like it.I agree it is short on scares compared to the first three, but it makes up for it in telling a good story.
Not to mention, this film is pretty much starved of scary or frightening moments.Entertainment Value: 4* - I will admit I expected more after seeing Paranormal Activity 3, which I happened to enjoy.
Paranormal Activity was terrible horror film I've seen in recent times with no script , no direction and of course with no scary scenes at all.After 5 years , Katie along with Hunter moves in a neighborhood where a regular family gets affected by their paranoid behavior.
On top of it , I simply felt that there were no actual scenes that will break your sweats and a chill will run down your spine like PA 3.Overall , a very boring ghost movie which was simply a waste of time.
Why read a review about the fourth movie in a horror series that uses the same gimmick (found footage) each time?
The acting was good and humorous, the child actors were suitably creepy and there was another stand out creepy performance from the face of Paranormal Activity Katie (who gets more air time this time and the film is that much better for it.) Definitely go and see it in the cinema with a group of friends and a full theatre and you'll have a good night!.
the ending once again leaves puzzles unsolved but thats what leaves you wanting more, i guess everyone who dislikes these kind of movies can call these their guilty pleasure, because you know its going to be bad, but you want to see what happens, but this film feels almost fake, if you ask me.
but what i liked was the change of scares, there were less slamming of doors and more violent activity, i guess the reason i liked this one is because i expected it to be bad, not that is was, but i had high hopes for 3 and was extremely disappointed, mostly because of the false commercials that didn't show any of it in the actual film.
OK, so there is a story here, which attempts to uncover the whereabouts of Hunter, the child taken at the end of "Paranormal Activity 2", but it's pretty weak, and really shouldn't be focused on at all if you are planning to see this movie and well, enjoy it.
So, in the end, if you are planning on seeing this movie, probably the most important thing to be aware of is that this is one which falls under the category of, the more you disregard the stories gaping plot holes, the more you will enjoy the film (up to a point, I guess).Written by Markus Robinson, Edited by Nicole I.
We'll just say this from the get-go – this fourth addition to the surprisingly durable horror franchise is frightfully dull, and we'd advise even fans of the earlier movies to steer clear.All franchises run out of new ideas after some time, but it seemed after 'Paranormal Activity 3' that directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman had somehow found a way to breathe new life into the series by exploring the genesis of the hauntings.
And so here we have the latest installment of the Paranormal Activity series, but unfortunately, this fourth one isn't as good as the other three.With this latest film we have fast-forwarded 5 years from the events that happened in Paranormal Activity 2 (this 4th film isn't a direct sequel to the 3rd movie) and we see what has become of baby Hunter and his "adopted" mother.
It's still worth watching though, especially if you like the Paranormal Activity films..
And that is a shame, because I enjoyed the three previous films and I like to think that this story has an ending instead of it turning into a meaningless pile of bad or mediocre sequels.My disappointment aside, it's not all crap.
This feels like a Paranormal Activity movie, even if it is the worst of the series.
When I watch a horror film, I want be scared and feel my heart jumping like it's the end of the world.
If you're expecting more than that from a Paranormal Activity movie, you're paying for the wrong ticket.7 out of 10P.S. THERE IS A SCENE AFTER THE END CREDITS (which is after the Paramount animation)!P.P.S. First review on IMDb. Hope you liked it!.
Just like the third movie, Paranormal Activity 4 doesn't offer anything new and the lead chick's acting isn't really good.
Write a clear path for where the franchise is going because these movies are individual films that have very little to do with each other and all end the same exact way!.
Because I freaking hate paranormal activity, I liked the last film as it was the only one with actual effort put into it but the others were complete crap.