Paranormal Activity 4

Alright, so let's jump right into it. (Spoilers!)

Okay, so Paranormal Activity 4 is set five years after Katie killed her sister and Micah and all that and kidnapped her nephew, Hunter and disappeared. Apparently nobody looked for her? She just killed a few people, kidnapped a kid, and ran. It shouldn't have been too hard to look for her. We had the entire thing on tape! But, we needed a fourth movie, didn't we?

Well, this time our main characters are Alex (Kathryn Newton) and Ben (Matt Shively). They are buddies and all. Well, these two and Alex's family begin witnessing strange events of the paranormal nature (duh) when a woman and her strange child movie into the neighborhood. This kid keeps wandering to their yard, playing in their treehouse and whatnot, disturbing them all. Well, something weird and mysterious happens to the woman which leaves Alex and her family as temporary guardians of Robbie, the mysterious child. And of course, we have cameras installed throughout Alex's home show all the weird crap that happens following Robbie's arrival.

With Robbie living with them, Wyatt, Alex's younger brother is forced to like him (we've all been there) but Wyatt is creeped out by this kid. Do we really blame him, though? Okay, so do we really blame him, though? The day after Robbie started to stay with them, they are caught talking to Robbie's imaginary? friend. Like any rational humanbeing, they just put this off as some kids doing kid stuff. Well, things really got heated when Ben showed Wyatt, Robbie and Alex how the camera picks up the infrared tracking dots the Kinect uses, and they danced around and you know, it actually looked a little cool with the green dots everywhere. Well, Robbie just sat silently on the couch, with his invisible friend. Later, Ben showed everyone the video and you can clearly see the tracking dots picking up movement next to Robbie on the couch.

More weird things with Robbie? Creepy Ben recorded his videochat with Alex, and has footage of her sleeping at night. Alex stopped being angry with him (though she shouldn't have, that's creepy af), well, anyways, the video showed Robbie coming into her room and sleeping with her. Weird, right? This was finally enough for them, so they set up cameras all around Alex's house. Took awhile to get the Paranormal Activity vibe in, but we got it. The cameras catch all the usual weird things, such as black shapes going through the house.  Robbie draws some weird demonic symbols on Wyatt's back - the same ones we see in the second and third Paranormal Activity.

Katie also shows up, claiming to be Robbie's mother. She tells Wyatt that he's adopted and is name isn't really Wyatt. Katie also starts showing up around Alex's house, being all weird. More weird things happen, as usual (don't want to give it all away here). Anyways, the movie ends with Alex trying to take Hunter and run but a hoard of witches and demon Katie show up, closing in and then credits.

So what's going on in Paranormal Activity? From what we know of Paranormal Activity 2 and Paranormal Activity 3 that a demon and a coven of his buddy witches are at play here. One of said witches was the mother of Katie and Kristi. It was grandma that led both girls to the other world at the end of the third movie when they were young. So apparently, the witches needed a son for their master plan, right? And after 75 some years, it was Kristi who finally had a son. Katie killed Kristi and takes the boy, Hunter. Katie either put him up for adoption herself (unlikely) or dropped him off at an adoption/foster home (likely). Hunter was then adopted by Alex's family and renamed Wyatt.

So from what we see here, we can assume that Hunter had to be raised by a different family, not the witchy one, so that he could be used for the "Master Plan" but what is the master plan? Let's see if we find out in Marked Ones or Ghost Dimension.