Paranormal Activity 4
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| German title | Paranormal Activity 4 | ||
| Original title | Paranormal Activity 4 | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2012 | ||
| length | 88 minutes | ||
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
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| Director |
Henry Joost Ariel Schulman |
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| script | Chad Feehan (Story) Christopher B. Landon |
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| production |
Oren Peli Jason Blum |
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| camera | Doug Emmett | ||
| cut | Gregory Plotkin | ||
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Paranormal Activity 4 is an American horror film directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman and written by Chad Feehan and Christopher B. Landon in 2012. It is the sequel to the 2011 film Paranormal Activity 3 from the Paranormal Activity series and was released in German cinemas on October 18, 2012.
action
The plot begins with the final scene from Paranormal Activity 2 , in which obsessed Katie leaves her sister Kristi's house with Hunter. After the horrific events that happened to Katie in 2006, the young woman disappeared.
But a few years later the ghost begins all over again. When new and somewhat strange people move into the neighborhood, a local family, especially 15-year-old daughter Alex, catches the eye of the little boy who has acted strangely from the start. When the boy's mother has to go to the hospital for a short time, Alex's mother courteously offers to take little Robbie in for a few days. But when he enters the house, strange things start to go on. Lamps flicker, things move as if by magic and after Alex was almost killed by a chandelier, she has had enough and wants the boy out of the house. But her mother does not believe in ghostly apparitions, but instead in an accident and does not allow herself to be talked about.
When Alex's parents leave the house in the evening, strange noises lure them into the garage. However, she does not know that Katie is in the house and wants to get Alex's brother Wyatt. It turns out that Wyatt was adopted and is actually Katie's nephew Hunter. Alex threatens to suffocate on the exhaust of a running engine in the garage, but can save himself at the last second. Katie later kills the family mother and Alex's boyfriend, Ben. That same night, Alex meets the possessed Katie in his own house and escapes to Katie's house across the street in search of her father. There she hopes to be saved, but it fails. She meets Wyatt and wants to flee with him, but Wyatt does not react to her. In the last scene you can see more “possessed” Alex blocking the way, she turns around and is attacked by Katie.
continuation
Even before the fourth part of the successful Paranormal Activity series was released, a fifth franchise release was indirectly announced. This is prepared at the end of Paranormal Activity 4 by a post-credit scene in a Latino environment. On November 22, 2012, the German cinema date for Paranormal Activity 5 was October 31, 2013; in the US the film should start a week earlier.
At the beginning of August 2013 it was announced that there will be an offshoot called Paranormal Activity: The Marked Before Paranormal Activity 5 . This started in Germany on January 2, 2014 in cinemas. The regular sequel Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension starts on October 22, 2015 in German cinemas.
Others
In April 2013, indie director Mike Costanza sued producers Steven Schneider and Spencer Medof for theft of intellectual property . Costanza filed a lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court on April 24, 2013 because the producers had used the script of his 2002 film The Collingswood Story for Paranormal Activity 4 without Costanza’s permission.
The main character's name wasn't clearly clear before it hit theaters. On some pages, such as B. Filmstarts.de or TV Digital the name of the main person was given as Alice. The name Alex is used in the Internet Movie Database .
The official trailer contains scenes that do not appear in the film.
The film was first broadcast on free TV on May 26, 2015 on ProSieben Maxx .
criticism
"The serial horror film hardly manages to create an intense atmosphere before it soars into a more absurd than creepy overkill of ghost apparitions in the finale."
“Within just five years, the horror attack has turned from a low-budget surprise hit in" Blair Witch Project "self-made fashion to a multi-million dollar series. However, the credibility has fled, because now there is really enough money to shoot a properly equipped horror film or to send a familiar face into the race for the worst shock moment. [...] And it really doesn't help if the dramatically swelling music makes it so clear (like none of the pictures ever is) that something really bad is about to happen. That borders on paranormal passivity. "
Web links
- Paranormal Activity 4 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Paranormal Activity 4 in the German synchronous file
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Paranormal Activity 4 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 281 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Paranormal Activity 4 . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ blairwitch.de: Paranormal Activity 5 - German cinema release known
- ↑ Paralegal Activity! Paramount Being South over Paranormal Activity 4!
- ^ Lawsuit Claims Paramount Stole 'Paranormal Activity 4' Ideas from Pitch Meeting
- ↑ Filmstarts.de
- ↑ Digital
- ^ Internet Movie Database
- ^ Paranormal Activity 4. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Sophie Albers: Paranormal forever. Stern , October 18, 2012, accessed October 21, 2012 .