25 Worst Movies Ever
11. Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)
Like its predecessors, “Paranormal Activity 4” claims to be portrayals of real accounts of run-ins with mostly unpleasant spirits.
Diehard seekers of the paranormal might buy it, but the film’s lackluster $29 million take at the box office indicates that all but the most avid ghost hunters are fed up with the overly tedious “fright scenes” and hackneyed story lines.
There really isn’t much to set this film apart from the others in the “Paranormal Activity” series. New people, new apparitions, but everything else is pretty much stock nonsense.
If you’ve seen any of the earlier films in the series, you know to expect lawn, drawn out scenes of mumbling, moping, and forced tension punctuated by marital arguments. The paranormal encounter scenes aren’t as much frightening as they are silly.
Like the rest of the series, “Paranormal Activity 4” is shot in a grainy “documentary style.” Apparently the film’s producers are banking on the fact that at least a few people are going to believe that the woeful going-on of yet another haunted family are indeed real.
