‘Paranormal Activity 4’ Trailer: Katie’s Back!
If Monday’s13-second teaserfor theParanormal Activity 4trailer whetted your appetite for more found-footage scares, you’ll be happy to see that the first full-length trailer has now hit the web.Henry JoostandAriel Schulman, who directedParanormal Activity 3, are once again at the helm. Watch the video after the jump.
TheParanormal Activitymovies are dirt-cheap and quick to make (this one took less than a year from green light to release), and deliver such great box-office returns ($205 worldwide gross against a $5 million budget for the last one), that Paramount is probably going to keep cranking them out until the end of time. To their credit, however, they’ve actually done a pretty good job so far of expanding on the mythology while maintaining a fairly consistent level of quality.
Paranormal Activity 4looks like more of the same, which is both good and bad. If you were lukewarm on the first three, odds are4won’t deliver anything that shocking and new. On the flip side, if you just want to see more of what you loved the last three times,4seems more than capable of delivering.
The first threeParanormal Activitymovies traveled backwards in time — much of2was a prequel to1, and3took place before either of them. But it’s obvious from this trailer that theZack Estrin-scripted4is moving forward. It appears that the unsuspecting victim this time around is a girl with the awful luck to live near some creepy neighbors. The exact nature of her connection to the characters of1-3aren’t clear yet, but it seems we’ll finally get to see just what Katie (played byKatie Fetherston) got up to after (spoiler alert!) she got possessed, killed her family, and ran off with baby Hunter in2.
