The two teens have a flirtatious dynamic that creates a few undeniably enjoyable moments. The one other highlight in the otherwise lackluster film is the humor provided by Alex’s bro-ishly charming boyfriend, Ben. Nevertheless, the few moments that do elicit jumps and gasps are mostly Robbie’s strange little face popping up in places it shouldn’t.
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Robbie fits the film’s mockumentary style, and his believability has the potential to provide more scares than the rest of the movie manages to deliver. Instead, he has an awkward, off-hand delivery that makes him sound like a real child, just … off. Thankfully, Robbie doesn’t utter threats filled with demonic weight that far too many horror movie kids use. He has a mushroom cut, wears sweatpant-gauchos and rocks the ever-alluring socks and sandals combo. The character is less demon-baby and more like that creepy kid you knew in real-life kindergarten – the one who tells you he can read thoughts or that he bleeds blue blood (which, by the way, were both said by real kids I know). While creepy kids are normally stale horror fodder, Robbie is actually one of the film’s few successes.
Audiences are constantly doing a mental “no ghost in here” checklist that, needless to say, gets boring really quickly. The resulting footage makes up the bulk of “Paranormal Activity 4,” but unfortunately, a ridiculous amount of time is spent switching between camera shots of empty rooms. The two teenage sleuths decide to set up 24-hour surveillance of the house by installing continuous recording programs on laptops scattered throughout the house – even the six-year-old’s room (seems legit, right?). Complying with horror movie logic, he ends up staying with Alex’s family, and weird things follow him across the street. But this installment caters to its core demographic – teens hoping to scream – by focusing on pretty fifteen-year-old suburbanite Alex.Īlong with her boyfriend, Ben, Alex begins to investigate her dour-faced neighbor, Robbie, after the tot’s mother (Katie from the first two installments) is hospitalized. The film continues “Paranormal Activity’s” profitable shtick with its found-footage style, predictable plot formula and demons who show their presence mostly by messing with people’s furniture.
And even worse, when the trigger is at last pulled, the ever anticipated bang is actually more of an embarrassing poof. While this fourth installment of the wildly popular franchise manages to introduce its gun with mild success, it takes far too long to get to the actual payoff. The problem with “Paranormal Activity 4” is that it is all gun and no bang. The adage has become shorthand for the need to manage the tenuous relationship of suspense and payoff. There is an old saying in theater: if there is a loaded pistol on stage in the first act, it had better be fired in the last.
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The latest installment of the “Paranormal Activity” series came out on Oct.
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