Written Review: Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)

by Jason Pyles
Movie Podcast Weekly.com

Note to readers who haven’t seen any “Paranormal Activity” films: It’s not absolutely necessary to see the three preceding films of this franchise in order to watch this fourth one. The set-up for this movie picks up where the second installment left off, and the prerequisite highlights from “Paranormal Activity 2” are shown to us at the beginning of this fourth movie, anyway. But my recommendation to anyone who hasn’t seen any of this franchise is to simply watch the first movie and then call it quits on the franchise.

Premise: When a suburban family babysits a neighbor boy for a few days while his mother is hospitalized, bizarre and inexplicable occurrences start happening in their house. Continue reading

Movie Podcast Weekly Ep. 004: Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)

In this epic, 2 hour and 18-minute episode, Jason talks with horror critics Jamie Jenkins and Midnight Corey about “Paranormal Activity 4.” Typically we try to keep our episodes between 60 to 70 minutes in length, but we were just having so much fun talking about movies, we lost track of time. Apologies for any inconvenience, but we think you’re going to love this episode.

JAMIE JENKINS is a host on Devour the Podcast (a horror movie show) and Evil Episodes (a horror TV podcast). Jamie can also be found at Horrorphilia.com. You can find the Viscera Film Festival here. And this is where you can view Jamie’s short film: “Secret Shopper.”

MIDNIGHT COREY is the host of The Electric Chair (horror movie audio and video podcast). He runs an entertaining Web site called Midnight Corey.com, where you can also find his original music. Corey was the featured songwriter guest on The Songwriting Podcast, Episode 5. And here are links to some episodes of The Electric Chair that we mentioned during this podcast: Continue reading