10 Terrible 2012 Films That Will Get Sequels Anyway

6. Paranormal Activity 4

By now, after a 4th installment, we should all be familiar with how the format of the Paranormal Activity series goes. Some footage is miraculously edited together showing a family spending most of their time indoors and videotaping each other, then slowly over the course of a handful of nights things start going bump in the night. One person is zeroed out in the family, everyone else thinks they are crazy until they strategically set up high definition cameras throughout the house to capture the strange goings on. This formula has worked ever since the original low budget found footage horror came out in 2007 to resounding box office success. Of course, as tradition has shown, another Paranormal Activity is set for theaters in late October of this year already. What has now become a tradition really needs to start throwing in some monkey wrenches to the mix. These predictable movies are on their last leg on the predictability scale, with #4 being especially awful. However, with a mere $5 million budget turning a $135 million profit, the producer's motto is if it isn't broken, don't fix it.

 
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Kyle Hytonen is a film school grad, an independent film-maker, photographer and sleeper-inner.