Welcome to this week’s Failed Critics Review – unfortunately delayed due to technical issues.
Gerry is technically an old man who can’t stay up past 11pm apparently.
Anyway, better late than never! On this week’s podcast we review the latest instalment of the Big Fish in the Found Footage pond – Paranormal Activity 4. We also catch up on what the critics have been watching in the past week, including the wonderful Safety Not Guaranteed, the utterly bonkers Holy Motors, and the little-seen Speed Racer. Steve also finally got around to watching The Raid.
Join us at the weekend for Triple Bill where we discuss the films that have scared the crap out of us – and next week the Review returns with a review of Skyfall and a BOND SPECIAL!
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Good review James. While the first two follow-ups at least attempted to give us something new and create a mythology, part four is bereft of ideas and rehashes moments from both its precursors and classics of the horror genre. I didn’t hate it, but it definitely didn’t take me by storm.
Thanks for the kind comments!
I hope it came across that I do realise that PA4 wasn’t ‘made for me’, but as someone who is easily creeped out I was disappointed in the lack of scares.
Just checked out your site and there’s some great reviews on there.