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Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)

Paranormal Activity 4 poster
Directed by
Henry Joost
Genre
horror film, found footage film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
R
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 2,046 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A teenager in Nevada documents strange events in her home after a neighbor boy comes to stay with her family. The activity grows more violent as it connects to a series of earlier paranormal incidents.

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What happens

Paranormal Activity 4 is a 2012 American found footage supernatural horror film directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman and written by Christopher Landon. It is the fourth in the Paranormal Activity film series. The film stars Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively, Aiden Lovekamp, Brady Allen, Stephen Dunham, Alexondra Lee, and Katie Featherston, who reprises her role as Katie. Set in 2011 in Henderson, Nevada, the film follows teenager Alex Nelson as she documents increasingly violent paranormal activity after a boy from the neighboring house begins staying with her family, with the disturbances linked to the events of the earlier films. The film incorporates consumer technology such as Skype and an Xbox Kinect camera into its found-footage format. Paranormal Activity 4 was released in the United States on October 19, 2012, by Paramount Pictures. Made on a budget of $5 million, it grossed $143 million and received mixed reviews from critics. It was followed by Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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