Moral of the story is mind your business.

Not a waste of your time but not a movie to watch again either, it's a Tuesday evening movie if there is such category ;).

Hmm acting is ok and that is one of the pluses of this movie. On the other hand I didn't like the poor story. This movie really shouldn't have the name Paranormal activity in it. It doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the PA series at all. And most of all it doesn't create the creepy disturbing atmosphere of the first 3 PA movies. Best to avoid.

Meh. This is really not a Paranormal Activity - it's just a horror movie, and not a great one either. The dark bells sound was the only scary bit. Not recommended.

This one didn't felt much paranormal-activity-ish. I think is the first one that has shots outside the "camera-in-hand" pov, which kinda broke the effect. Besides, we all know that PA should have ended like, 3 or 4 movies ago; so nothing new. Pretty much nothing on the "ghost" factor (i believe just one scene in the whole movie is kinda lame). Also, it seems like the girl has NEVER seen an horror movie:[spoiler] creepy closed door room? Lets go check it out. Smaller-even-creepier door in there with blood marks and shit? No problemo, i want to look. Big ass rabbit hole in the middle of a weird creepy church in the middle of fucking nowhere that goes down 30mts and has barely the space for a person?? Sure, push me down, i want to know what's on the bottom [/spoiler]. At least, it was a nice change that [spoiler] 2/3 of the main team survived (something that i always despised in the other PA, because you knew that EVERYONE involved would be dead as fuck at the end) [/spoiler]. I would say is just Bad Horror Movie - Next of Kin, rather than PA; no more than a 5.

Not good, not scary, not a Paranormal Activity movie. Don't waste your time.

First, this is not a Paranormal Activity film, IMO the series should have ended when the original story ended in PA 3. (PA 4 was technically a continuation but that was a forced movie trying to save a failed franchise)

My issue is this film is not a PA film, it's just a horror (a bad one at that). My biggest issue with horror movies is once you see the 'big bad' it loses its effect to scare you, up until you see it, sure there are a few albeit forced jump scares, but nothing substantial. Nothing about this movie makes sense. Find a creepy ass hole in the ground? 'Let's go down it! This is our only chance!'

Many people hate the franchise but I believe the first 3 are great, an unseen antagonist causing mayhem.

Please let the franchise die, at this point, they are just throwing the PA name in front of bad horror movies in an attempt to basically click-bait us into that first fear we felt watching PA 1 for the first time.

This movie only exists to draw people into Paramount+. It is not a Paranormal Activity movie. It's not much of a found footage movie. It's definitely not a consistent or sensible movie, let alone a good one. Why does *anything* happen? Why was Sarah important and what does that have to do with Margot? Why was that one room haunted, but only that one? If the demon is so powerful, why does it remain trapped? I went into this with low expectations, merely hoping for something familiar to the franchise (if only the format), and it still managed to disappoint me.

I prefer the old movies with “ghosts”, not a bad movie tho

I didn’t hate it but there is a lot of missed potential. They coast a bit too much on Amish/village people are creepy, when we have seen this done to much better results in other films. There is a decent build but the movie ends just as things are getting interesting. There’s a fun choice where the movie breaks away from the found footage format and honestly they should have stuck with that through the end and let things play out a bit more.

By the numbers horror movie trotted out for Halloween using the Paranormal Activity brand in name only. Some references are made to the old formula (the salt did make me laugh), but very little here evokes the feeling of the original Paranormal Activity. That being said, I didn't hate my time with Next of Kin. It's a jump scare laden, schlocky horror with the most basic of plots and little innovation. Mediocrity through and through, but wouldn't be out of place in your Halloween viewing queue.

This one looked like it's going to be one of the better entry in the franchise and after watching the documentary I raised my expectation a little. Guess I was wrong. To me this entry is slightly above _The Ghost Dimension_ and that one is the WORST of the bunch. That's pretty bad. I expected more creativity put into this rebirth but there's really nothing new or exciting here. It's just another found footage film that relies heavily on jumpscares and gives you motion sickness at the very last moment. There's not enough mystery to it and none of the characters are particularly interesting. Judging by the slow motion shots, I don't even think this film try to fully commit to the found footage format at all. The only thing even remotely interesting was the claustrophobia in some parts. Overall it's disappointing and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

This is probably the worst film in the PA franchise. Not horror at all.