Review of Paranormal Activity 4 (2012) by Marischa B — 03 Feb 2013

If ghosts only knew the amount of hits they could generate on Youtube if they just stopped scaring people and started pranking them.

Instead, the apparitions in this horror movie are happy with their horrifying home- recordings.

Five years after the demonically possessed Katie (Katie Featherston) kidnapped her nephew, she reappears as the neighbour of a Nevada family with a teenage daughter, Alex (Kathryn Newton), and an adolescent son Wyatt (Aiden Lovekamp).

But when Wyatt begins hanging out with Katie's son Robbie (Brady Allen) strange things start happening in Wyatt's house.

With the house rigged with cameras, Alex and her boyfriend (Matt Shively) monitor the nightly visitations of a shadowy figure attempting to take possession of Wyatt.

Haunted by a myriad of missed opportunities, this tedious third installment lacks the unpredictable jolts that have kept the series alive thus far.

Besides, capturing phantoms on camera isn't that complicated since ghosts pioneered photobombing.