A new family moves into the house from Paranormal Activity 3 and discover an old video camera with an anomaly that somehow manages to capture ghostly images, as well as a bunch of VHS tapes that fill in some backstory. The conceit of this film is that we would finally get to "see" the activity. (It was also released in 3D in theaters, which is always an odd choice for found footage.) The problem is that this comes in the form of CGI apparitions, and the reason this series has mainly worked is due to how low-tech it is; most of the horror takes place in our own imagination.
I recently did a reappraisal of the entire Paranormal Activity series (reviewed by various Nutshell contributors) and while there is plenty of lore established throughout, it does get tedious quickly, so it only rewards those with patience made of steel. While this was an improvement over the last installment, it still doesn't quite make sense if you've been following along from the very beginning, and it's gotten completely illogical by this point.
This was intended to be the final entry in the series, but, you know, greed.
1 Key of Solomon out of 5
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