Not to personalize my critique too much, but the most frightening moment about Paranormal Activity 4 was when I tripped on a buffer cord coming out of the theater. The pain and embarrassment of my clumsiness, however, was nowhere near the agony I felt while watching what I hope will be the final installment of…
A second trailer for Paramount Pictures’ Paranormal Activity 4 was made available today and it is marginally better than the one from August. A few new characters make an entrance but the result is basically the same. Grainy security camera and Handycam footage catch creepy things going on in a house that are related to…
Today Paramount Pictures dropped their trailer for Paranormal Activity 4 and its clear that they’re going to milk every drop of money they can from this franchise. The new catch? The young next door neighbor to Katie and Hunter (she walked off with him in “Paranormal Activity 2,” I think) is getting spooked by them…
During my younger years, my mother would always tell me outlandish stories. Most of these tales involved animals spontaneously springing to life and adapting anthropomorphic qualities and inspired an overactive imagination, but one fable in particular would always scare me witless. As a superstitious woman, she’d look at me — her words marinated in conviction…
The second trailer for Paranormal Activity 3 is here and perhaps I misspoke when I described the first trailer saying “. . . what made the series special had left already.” Maybe it has something to do with the connection to children, but the demon presented to us in this trailer is much more violent…
If you ask me, I think what made the first “Paranormal Activity” special has left already left the series. Paramount thinks otherwise as the first taste of Paranormal Activity 3 has come online. This time around, it focuses on the beginning — when Katie and Kristi first summoned the demon to this world to wreak…
We’ve seen it before with The Blair Witch Project; a horror flick, made on a shoestring budget, becomes a sleeper hit and ultimately warrants itself a sequel. The “Holywoodized” sequel, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 turned out to be a lame attempt to recapture the lightning of its predecessor and thus was pandered by…
