"Oh, cool, another Paranormal Activity movie," said nobody, ever. Seriously: there's a time and a place for a Paranormal Activity movie, and that's 2007. Do we even need to bother going into detail as to what this is about? You know the score; you've seen how it works. There have been five installments already, of course, with this sixth chapter rumoured to star Kate Featherson, who is the only actress to have appeared in every one thus far. What will happen to her? The same sort of things that happened to her before, we'd wager. Okay, so these make money, and because they're relatively cheap to produce, it would probably be anti-logical not to make them until the studio are blue in the face. But when we're branding sequels with subtitles like "The Ghost Dimension," it's time to go back to the drawing board. C'mon: "The Ghost Dimension." We're just going to accept that, are we?
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
