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While Next of Kin’s more professional cinematography is crisp and less static than previous Paranormal Activity movies, it loses the distinct visual language the locked-off surveillance-style angles gave earlier entries in a sea of samey handheld horror.

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What we said about the last Paranormal Activity movieĮric Goldman gave 2015's Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension a 6/10, writing that it 'lacks impact as far as wrapping up such a long-running series and our investment with the people and situations we’ve seen since it began.'Ĭonsumer camera tech is a crucial component of making a found-footage horror film feel authentic and immediate. Samuel agrees to introduce Margot to her long-lost family, so she travels deep into the woods to the Beiler farm with hired sound guy Dale (Dan Lippert) and partner Chris (Roland Buck III), a cinematographer whose pricey gear gives the Paranormal Activity franchise a major visual facelift, for better or worse. She makes contact with Samuel Beiler (Henry Ayres-Brown), a relative taking a year off from his Amish community. The first question of found-footage, and the hardest to continue to answer throughout the film: who are these people and why won’t they put their damn cameras down!? Next of Kin goes with the old standby of “documentary filmmakers, one of which is the subject of the documentary.” That’s Margot (Emily Bader), a young woman looking for her birth family. That’s putting the cart before the horse in a big way, though: Next of Kin brings nothing new to either the Paranormal Activity franchise or found-footage horror, making it a disappointment on multiple fronts. Rather than furthering the established continuity, Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin reboots the found-footage stalwart for Paramount+, setting up new villains and demons should audiences connect with this film in the same way they did with the original. Cheap to make, Paramount and later Blumhouse quickly started churning out sequels that introduced new camera gimmicks and a surprisingly deep mythology, but also increasingly strained credulity around why any of these people are still filming instead of running for the hills. There’s no better avatar for that transition than the Paranormal Activity franchise, which like Blair Witch, has its roots in a viral internet campaign that catapulted the austere first film to massive box office success. Unfortunately, years and years of focus on the latter aspect of the subgenre has taken focus away from the former. When it’s done right, found-footage horror can be terribly imaginative and immersive while remaining budget friendly. 29.Īs someone whose roots in horror are very tied up in the release of 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, I’ve been an ardent champion of found footage for a long time.

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With his proven track record with Blumhouse, bringing him back to write this new Paranormal Activity movie certainly makes sense (although I personally would be much more excited if he were making a new Happy Death Day movie instead).Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin debuts on Paramount+ on Oct. He also has a body-swap horror movie on the horizon.

Landon also directed the two Happy Death Day films, and directed the second, Happy Death Day 2U. Landon wrote Paranormal Activity 2, 3, 4, and the fifth entry, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, which he also directed. I AM NOT writing the script nor am I directing the new movie. I am helping my friends and co-collaborators at Paramount set a new course for the franchise. I wanted to clarify something about my involvement in the new Paranormal Activity movie. However, Landon himself was quick to jump on Twitter and add that he's only 'helping out' with the script, not writing it: Which is not the title of the movie, but it is the seventh Paranormal Activity.' series, and he's coming up with Paranormal Activity 7. We have Chris Landon, who wrote almost all of them, he directed one of them, he's really kind of the showrunner of the Paranormal Activity. During an interview with The Evolution of Horror, Blumhouse head honcho Jason Blum dropped the following news regarding Paranormal Activity 7: 'We are doing a new Paranormal Activity.