This was a pretty good year to be a fan of genre movies. More and more low-budget movies had the courage to tackle science fiction and fantasy themes, and meanwhile Hollywood seemed to step up its game a little. But at the same time, there were still tons of boring sequels and prequels, and mountains of crap.
Paranormal Activity 4 will make you root for these movies to die
Paranormal Activity 4 has done what no other Paranormal Activity has accomplished before it: made me root for the death of this horror franchise. It's criminally boring and horribly stupid. And I love these movies. I love the shtick, love the sisters — hell, I even love the stupid name they gave the demon in the third …
New trailer for Paranormal Activity 4 is rapidly running out of…
Didn't think any more money or plot juice could possibly be squeezed out of the Paranormal Activity franchise? Well, think again! In the new trailer for Paranormal Activity 4, it's all the same ghostly gags, but now with a very young girl wearing small shorts! And we're all uncomfortable!
The First Ever Horror Movie About How Much Ghost Hunters Sucks
The Apparition, out today, is a vaguely adequate horror movie in which a young couple struggles with some paranormal-ass activity. Where this movie shines, though, is in showing how braindead the whole "paranormal expert" subgenre of television and movies is.
In the trailer for Paranormal Activity 4, the demons have gone viral
The supernatural cash cow Paranormal Activity has churned out another addition to the franchise. After the series covered the original couple, the couple's sister, and went back in time to show what happened when the sisters were babies, we thought they ran plum out of story.
The All-Out Supernatural Cheese Rampage We've All Been Waiting For
The first trailer for The Apparition looks so relentlessly cheesetastic, we can hardly stand it. This movie has everything: feckless scientific researchers who set out to prove that you can summon supernatural entities with the power of the mind, a monster that is sort of like a virus and sort of like a ghost, and a …
Is Chernobyl Diaries just the Ukrainian version of Hills Have Eyes?
Paranormal Activity's Oren Peli is venturing out of strict "found footage" horror with his new movie Chernobyl Diaries. But how scary is this movie actually going to be, in practice? Find out for yourself.
Paranormal Activity 4 to hit in 2012, make a crap-ton of easy money
Given that Paramount is unlikely to turn their backs on the filthy lucre the Paranormal Activity franchise rakes in every Halloween, we'll be seeing a new one in 2012. What's it about? Your guess is as good as ours, but our gut tells us that this will be a webcam-centric, vlogging-style film with all new victims…
The Next Crop of Found Footage Movies That Will Scare You Silly
Now that Paranormal Activity 3 has broken box office records for October, Hollywood is green-lighting any thriller you can shake a handheld camera at. The "found footage" horror movie is set to have a new lease on life, with a pipeline full of jump scares. Here are the next crop of "found footage" flicks you should get…
